PhD studentship in Urban Sustainability through Integrated Data Analytics
Schools of Mathematics & Statistics and Electrical and Electronic
Engineering
Deadline for applications: 22nd April 2014
Applications are invited for a four year PhD studentship studying
Urban Sustainability through Integrated Data Analytics. Funding via a
Newcastle University Doctoral Training Award is for £20,000 per
annum. This award covers fees and a contribution to an annual stipend
(living expenses). The supervisors of this project are Prof Richard
Boys (School of Mathematics & Statistics) and Prof Phil Taylor (School
of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Science Central).
The objective of the project is to gain a deeper understanding of the
ways in which cities operate and to identify ways in which their
sustainability and resilience can be improved through improved design
and operating methods. It brings together the disciplines of
engineering and statistics in order to analyse, integrate, model,
synthesise and predict large urban datasets. This would be carried out
in an offline manner to inform planning processes and in an online
manner to inform real time control and emergency response.
Currently data collected from cities is relatively sparse and is held
in a fragmented fashion by a number of different utilities and
organisations. The social, technical and environmental strands within
a city have many important interdependencies and the current partial
and fragmented view of our cities is a major barrier to the
understanding and real time knowledge that is required to deliver more
sustainable and resilient cities.
The research will require the PhD student to become familiar with the
practical and technical aspects of urban infrastructure systems which
will lead to accurate stochastic modelling of the dynamic correlated
processes that are being observed. They will also become familiar with
Bayesian analyses combining information from the data and expert
opinion and use various computationally intensive techniques to
provide fast useable solutions.
The overarching research question to be addressed by the proposed
research is "can integrated urban data sets be analysed and
modelled such that they become an underpinning resource for planning
and operating future sustainable cities?"
Further details about the project, and how to apply, can be found
at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/search/list/ms004
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