SPADS CDT PhD projects being worked on by our 2026 cohort of students can be found on this page. Projects are grouped by research theme. Autonomous Sensing Platforms Developing Object-centric Vision and Language Foundation Models for Robust Autonomous Sensing PlatformsResilient PNT as a Service using multi-orbit satellite signals of opportunity (Dstl) Soft Everting Robots for Exploration, Mapping, and Manipulation in Extreme, Confined Environments (Dstl) Multi-agent Systems and Data Intelligence Adaptive Multiagent Decision Making in Multi-Sensor Platforms (Thales) Adaptive mission planning and enactment for autonomous vehicle control Collaborative Situational Awareness through Geospatial Intelligence Explainable Speech Deepfake Detection Novel Computing and Beyond CMOS Hardware Reconfigurable DNA-based bioelectronics (Dstl) Magnetic reservoir based energy-efficient computing Sensor Signal Processing Distributed Information Fusion (Dstl) Adaptable AI in the Wild for Defence and Security Bayesian Machine Learning on Strategically Manipulated DataBayesian transfer learning for underwater signals Fusion of multiple sources of evidence using Bayesian chain event graphs (Dstl) Reconfigurable DNA-based bioelectronics (Dstl) Resilient PNT as a Service using multi-orbit satellite signals of opportunity (Dstl) Robust object tracking in cluttered underwater environments (Dstl) This article was published on 2026-04-10
