Postgraduate Areas of Research in CSSE
Take your degree at New Zealand's premier research university. Throughout its history, the University of Canterbury has had many famous graduates and staff members (including the physicist Ernest Rutherford, the philosopher Karl Popper and the mathematician Roy Kerr), and research is one of the most important objectives on its charter.
What sort of research?
You can write a thesis in any research area approved by your supervisor, such as:
- Applications of wireless networking
- Automated stochastic discrete-event simulation
- Computer algorithms
- Computer and network security and forensics
- Computer graphics
- Computer language parsing and compiling
- Computer Supported Cooperative Work
- Computer vision/pattern recognition
- Design of distributed operating systems
- Design and application of geographic information systems
- Development of multi-language virtual machines
- Human Computer Interaction
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Internet and its next generations
- Machine learning
- Managing huge collections of documents
- Networked processing with applications to performance evaluation
- Next generations of wireless and all-optical networks
- Music image processing and display
- Performance measurement of operating systems
- Performance and operation of wireless networks
- Programming language design and implementation
- Software Engineering and code re-use
- Time syncronization in computer networks
- Type systems
- Virtual reality for software visualization