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Compare 14 doctoral research opportunities connected with Nanyang Technological University, including project summaries, funding and application deadlines.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project In this project, the student is to utilize AI techniques for building energy management (mainly cooling energy), to estimate the system efficiency, and in addition to detect abnormal in the system, which can be used for earlier fault detection.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project This PhD research explores how AI can be used to create healthier and more productive open-plan offices by improving their acoustic environment.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the way power electronic systems are designed, controlled, monitored, and optimized. Future energy systems, including electric vehicles, renewable energy converters, battery energy storage systems, wireless power transfer systems, AI data centers, and solid-state transformers, are expected to operate autonomously with enhanced efficiency, reliability, and adaptability.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project We invite highly motivated PhD candidates to join our project on electric motor design, focused on advancing direct-drive architectures with next-generation applications, e.g., eVTOL aircraft, with better performance and efficiency. Your work may include electromagnetic and thermal motor modeling, novel direct-drive design and optimization, and the development of AI-driven algorithms for design exploration, control/diagnostics, or inverse design workflows.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project This PhD develops a new chemical vapour deposition (CVD) route to wafer-scale, quantum-grade hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) for room-temperature single-photon emitters, the building blocks of quantum communication and photonics.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project This PhD project will focus on the development of chip-scale extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light sources based on electron-excited nanophotonic structures. The project aims to design, fabricate, and characterize compact EUV emitter architectures by integrating advanced cathode/anode materials, multilayer nanostructures, vacuum microcavities, and meta-optical design principles.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project Artificial intelligence is transforming how machines see and interpret the world, yet most AI systems remain fundamentally electronic: light is first captured, digitised, and only then processed by computational hardware. This project asks a different question: can light itself become the computing medium?
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project Most modern systems are realized through circuits. Inside these systems, printed circuit boards (PCBs) interconnect and control various functional components. To achieve greater miniaturization and higher performance, these discrete components must be integrated into a single integrated circuit (IC), composed of millions of transistors.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPMs) are rapidly emerging as one of the most promising quantum sensing technologies for detecting ultra-weak magnetic fields with femtotesla-level sensitivity. OPM arrays have the potential to enable compact and wearable biomagnetic imaging systems, non-invasive medical diagnostics, magnetic source localization, and high-resolution non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of materials and devices.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project This PhD project aims to develop a new nanophotonic platform by exploring new optical resonators and sensing mechanism. The student will focus on the design of nanophotonic sensor and translate it into a drug screening platform or health screening platform. The platform will be heavily equipped with machine learning analysis to assist on the outcome readings.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project This project focuses on advancing mid-infrared (MIR) and/or Terahertz integrated photonics by developing heterogeneously integrated semiconductor lasers directly on CMOS compatible chips, such as silicon. The mid-infrared (MIR) spectral region (2–10 µm) and Terahertz (THz, 30–300 µm) are crucial for chemical sensing, environmental monitoring, and free-space communications, but traditional MIR and THz systems rely on bulky, power-hungry components.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project The project will explore the use of novel materials and processes such as phase transitions in post-CMOS devices. Especially, the project will explore how such devices can be made to behave like neurons, and possibly solve problems that are considered too difficult for today's digital computers. We welcome direct PhD applications (with a bachelor's degree).
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project Embodied AI is rapidly transforming the future of robotics by enabling robots to perceive, reason, learn, and interact with the physical world. Recent advances in foundation models, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have significantly enhanced robotic capabilities in perception and decision-making.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
About the Project The advent of large AI models has worsened the long-standing von Neumann bottleneck issue. A high-speed, high-density embedded memory may provide a possible solution by enabling the entire AI model to be stored on-chip, thus reducing the reliance on external memory. However, such a memory technology is still elusive to-date. The main objective of this PhD research project is to realize such a technology through deploying novel material platforms.