Ciência sem Fronteiras (Science Without Borders)
DCU PhD Project Template:
**Please use one form per project**
Please complete & submit to your Head of School by Monday 16th July
PI name & contact details:
School:
Research Centre / group affiliation:
Research group / centre website:
PI website / link to CV:
Dr. David Sinclair
david.sinclair@computing.dcu.ie
School lof Computing
Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
www.lero.ie
CloudCORE
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/research/cloud-computingresearch-centre-cloudcore
wwww.computing.dcu.ie/~davids
Brief summary of PI research / research group / centre activity (2 or 3 lines max):
Data security and identity security in the Cloud. Verification of Distributed Systems. Modelling
and verifying Quality of Service in Cloud-based and Distributed Systems.
Title & brief description of PhD project (suitable for publication on web):
Data Mining Identities in the Cloud
Just like Neil Armstrong’s footprints on the Moon, data in the Cloud persists. The first step in
protecting a user’s identity is to truely understand the threat that data mining poses to different
user anonymisation techniques. This research will develop new tools and techniques to data
mining information about users in the Cloud and to construct detailed user identites.
Unique selling points of PhD project in DCU:
DCU projects should offer something that’s not available in Brazil – specific equipment, multi-disciplinarity,
aspects of structured programme, links with industry, placements, links with other research groups etc.
The School of Computing in DCU is active in multiple research centres that are directly related to modelling and
analysing various aspects of Cloud-based computing. By undertaking this research you will be collaborating
with leading researchers in:
 Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
 IC4, the Irish National Cloud Computing Competency Centre
 CLOUDCore, DCU’s Designated Research Centre in Cloud Computing.
Name & contact details for project queries, if different from PI named above:
Please indicate the graduates of which disciplines that should apply:
Computing, Mathematics
Ciência sem Fronteiras / Science Without Borders Priority Area:
Please indicate the specific programme priority area under which the proposed PhD project fits- choose only
one (tick box):
Engineering and other technological areas
Pure and Natural Sciences (e.g. mathematics, physics, chemistry)
Health and Biomedical Sciences
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
X
Aerospace
Pharmaceuticals
Oil, Gas and Coal
Renewable Energy
Minerals
Biotechnology
Nanotechnology and New Materials
Technology of prevention and remediation of natural disasters
Biodiversity and Bioprospection
Marine Sciences
Creative Industry
New technologies in constructive engineering
Please complete