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UROP: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme

Computing

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News: Listings for 2012 will be updated from December 2011 or before as they are received.

Computer Vision and Graphics

Computer processing of medical images for feature extraction or enhancement.
Writing interactive computer simulator software for teaching medical endoscopy.

Experience: Applicants should have knowledge of programming in C.

Contact: Prof Duncan Gillies,
Dept of Computing,
Room 306, Huxley Building, Faculty of Engineering
South Kensington Campus
Tel:  020 7594 8317  Email: d.gillies@imperial.ac.uk

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Computational Biology/Structural Biology

Software development and/or practical data processing for single particle cryo electron microscopy.

Experience: General data processing; Programming in ‘C' and/or Fortran; background in Physics, Engineering or Computer Science.

Contact: Professor M. van Heel,
Division of Molecular Biosciences
G20, Flowers Building, South Kensington Campus
Tel: 020 7594 5316, Email: m.vanheel@imperial.ac.uk

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Runtime performance optimisation and analysis tools

I hope to have positions for Computing students with a talent for software, to work on runtime performance optimisation and analysis tools.

Contact: Dr Paul Kelly
Dept of Computing,
423 Huxley Building, Faculty of Engineering
South Kensington Campus
Tel:  020 7594 8332  Email p.kelly@imperial.ac.uk

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Custom Computing, Reconfigurable Architecture

Theory and practice of developing systems containing: 

  • run-time reconfigurable and partially reconfigurable
  • components
  • hardware and software
  • clocked and asynchronous elements
  • Models, architectures, development methods and tools for:
  • high performance designs
  • embedded systems
  • parallel computers
  • Applications of custom-designed systems in areas such as:
  • multimedia
  • communications
  • medical computing

Contact: Prof Wayne Luk
Dept of Computing,
Room 434 Huxley Building, Faculty of Engineering
South Kensington Campus
Tel:  020 7594 8313  Email: w.luk@imperial.ac.uk

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Distributed Systems, Pervasive Computing

Designing and implementing infrastructure elements for pervasive computing environments. Designing and implementing middleware elements for distributed syste ms management. Developing applications for various pervasive computing scenarios.

Applicants should be proficient programmers and have an interest in distributed systems.

Available in vacations and term time

Contact: Dr. Emil Lupu
Dept of Computing,
Room 564, Huxley Building, Faculty of Engineering
South Kensington Campus
Tel : 02075948249
E-mail : e.c.lupu@imperial.ac.uk

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Medical Image Computing

  • Medical Image Processing
  • Visualization and Augmented Reality
  • Computer Assisted Surgery
  • Computer Vision and Graphics

Experience : Strong maths and programming (C/C++, Java) background

Contact: Dr Daniel Rueckert
Dept of Computing,
306 Huxley Building, Faculty of Engineering
South Kensington Campus
Tel:  020 7594 8333  Email: D.Rueckert@imperial.ac.uk

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Formal Verification of Protocols

Wireless protocols are  often specified in natural language, or with simple diagram. Very often the informal specification fails to captures important aspects of the protocol, that can be interfere with the correct running of the protocols.  The proposed projects aims to formalise in a rigouros language the protocol, and to derive properties by using available tools (PEPA, PRISM etc.)  Protocols that can be analysed are: IEEE 802.11, MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Bluetooth protocols ….

Skills and experience required: Background in probability theory.

Contact: Dr Maria Grazia Vigliotti
Dept of Computing
Faculty of Engineering
Room 348, Huxley Building
South Kensington Campus
Tel: 020 7594 8251 < br />Email: mgv98@doc.ic.ac.uk

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Computer vision and medical imaging

  • Medical Image Computing
  • Simulation and Augmented Reality
  • Perceptual Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Image Processing

Experience: Strong maths and programming (C/C++, Java) background

Contact: Professor Guang-Zhong Yang
Dept of Computing,
Room 305/306, Huxley Building, Faculty of Engineering
South Kensington Campus
Tel:  020 7594 8441  Email: g.z.yang@imperial.ac.uk