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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Northumbria University | Faculty of Engineering and Environment | Newcastle | United Kingdom</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">About This PhD Project</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Behavioural biometrics (such as touch dynamics) is emerging as a new way to identify and characterize an individual
in mobile applications. This project aims to develop a framework to utilize the personnel identification for mobile banking applications. Particularly the research will investigate the anomalies in behavioural dynamics and estimate the impact on secure mobile
banking/trading within the background of Big Data and Cloud Service. It is also expected to study decision making by individuals and understand the anomalies by integrating social, cognitive, and emotional factors in understanding the interplay between mobile
banking/trading behaviour and neural/emotional mechanisms. The project aims at developing a secure mobile banking platform with analytic functions and testing it in the application of big data analytics and cloud service with our industry partner. </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The PhD research will be a part of an EPSRC funded project. The successful candidate will work with professionals from
both academic and industry, particularly with our partner Atom Bank. Applicants with a multidisciplinary background on biometrics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, financial statistics, big data analytics, and/or cloud computing are welcome. </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please note eligibility requirement: </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Academic excellence of the proposed student i.e. 2:1 (or equivalent GPA from non-UK universities [preference for 1st
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please ensure you quote the advert reference above on your application form. </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Deadline for applications: 30 May 2018 </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Interview date: 20 June 2018 </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Start Date: 1 October 2018 </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This project is a funded studentship and includes a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK rates (for 2017/18 this
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