I'm looking for motivated MSc/PhD students and potential postdocs with C++ skills to work on exciting projects in Topological Data Analysis with applications to Materials Science, Computer Vision, Climate Systems.
Please e-mail vitaliy.kurlin(at)gmail.com if you are interested and would like to join the group in Topological Data Analysis.
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MSc or summer bursary potentially progressing to a funded PhD
- Project: Applications of Computational Geometry to Computer Vision and Graphics.
- Project: Stable-under-noise topological methods for Big Data Skeletonisation.
- Project: Topological Data Analysis for speeding up a materials discovery.
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Past student projects and highlighted achievements
- PhD student Ms Marjan Safi-Samghabadi (self-funded) has successfully completed her MSc and PhD in Topological Robotics under my supervision in June 2009 - June 2013. Here is the joint paper based on her PhD.
- Year 4 student Jeremy Forsythe has completed in 2016 the excellent project Convex Constrained Meshes: a new method to generate resolution-independent superpixels leading to the joint paper with Microsoft.
- The projects of Mr Caspar De Haes (Map Colouring), Mr Chris Palmer (Topological Robotics) were ranked the 2nd and 4th best year 4 projects in the department in 2011.
- MSc dissertations (3 months in the summer):
- Mr Cheng Shen: Data Skeletonization via alpha-Reeb Graphs (2016)
- Mr David Torkington: Testing the Mapper skeletonisation algorithm (2016)
- Mr Christopher Smithers: A linear time algorithm for embedding arbitrary knotted graphs into a 3-page book (2015)
- Ms Marjan Safi-Samghabadi: Configuration Spaces of Graphs (2009)
- Mrs Suad Al-khmas: Virtual Knots and Knotted Graphs (2008)
- Computer Vision and Graphics : all other projects
- Mr Donald Harvey: Coarse-to-fine superpixel segmentation with a fast adaptive energy-based initialisation (2016, year 4)
- Topological Data Analysis : all other projects
- Mr Chris Parkinson: Klein bottle model for a cloud of small patches from colour images (2016, year 4)
- Mr Lewin Strauss: The skeletonisation problem in high dimensions (2016, year 4)
- Topological Robotics : all other projects
- Mr Sam Bullen: Topological Complexity of Robot Motion Planning (2013, year 4)
- Ms Alison Champernowne: Straightening a Robot Arm in the Plane (2013, year 4)
- Mr Nathan Edwards: Euler Characteristic of Configuration Spaces (2013, year 4)
- Mr Chris Guard: Locked Polygonal Linkages in 3-dimensional Space (2013, year 4)
- Mr Martin Smith: Homotopy Types of Configuration Spaces of Graphs (2012, year 4)
- Ms Emily Weir: Connectivity Algorithms for Configuration Spaces (2012, year 4)
- Mr Chris Walker: Topological Complexity of Configuration Spaces (2011, year 4).
- Map Colouring : all other projects
- Ms Katriina Nichols (2010, year 4)
- Ms Camilla Banks (2009, year 3).
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Links to useful resources for completing projects
- LaTeX Wikibook, LaTeX tutorials by Andrew Roberts.
- Graphics program: Inkscape available for free.
- Free tutorials on HTML by W3Schools.
- Free tutorials on Java by Oracle.
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