Projects per year
Overview
Organisation profile
We are proud to share with you our exciting plans for the development of School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (SECaM) and its facilities into the next decade. Discover more about our ongoing mission to meet the educational, research and industrial needs of communities and industries in the South West and further afield.
SECaM currently offers opportunities for our students to study for degrees within six key disciplines:
- civil and coastal engineering
- computing
- electrical, electronic and robotics engineering
- mathematical sciences
- mechanical and marine engineering
- navigation and maritime science.
Our researchers are working to create new knowledge and use innovations in technology to improve and safeguard societies locally and internationally. Within key research themes of Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE), Medical and Health Technology, Sustainable Development and beyond, expertise across Coastal Engineering, Materials and Structures, Robotics, Cybersecurity, Theoretical Physics and Data Science is brought together within our multidisciplinary research community.
Our existing facilities and the exciting development of our new Engineering and Design Facility are central to our plans for ongoing successes. SECaM hosts the Marine Building, which contains our world-class Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) Laboratory and Navigation Suite. The school also operates the state-of-the-art Babbage building, another amazing building that is delivering our future success, by supporting engineering and design students as well as our leading research. SECaM further facilities include Autonomous and Robotic Systems, Wolfson Nanomaterials Laboratory, Cybersecurity range and our High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Graham Adnitt
- School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics - Lecturer in Navigation and Maritime Science
Person: Academic (Teaching)
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Light-weight High Performance Concrete for Modular Floating Structures (LITEFLOATCON)
Cheng, S. (PI - Principal Investigator)
1/01/24 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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EU urban Innovation Actions- Green Minds
Willis, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Gupta, A. (RA - Research Assistant) & Roszkowski, M. (RA - Research Assistant)
1/03/19 → 30/08/23
Project: Research
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Scouring and reef cube modelling
Lee, Y. C. (PI - Principal Investigator)
3/04/23 → 2/12/23
Project: Research
Research output
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A CNN Compression Methodology for Layer-Wise Rank Selection Considering Inter-Layer Interactions
Kokhazadeh, M., Keramidas, G., Kelefouras, V. & Stamoulis, I., 2 Apr 2025, DATE 2025 Conference.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings published in a book › peer-review
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A comparative study of word embedding techniques for classification of star ratings
McNeile, C., Wojtys, M. & Abdelmotaleb, H., 1 Feb 2026, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 297, Part A, 129037.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Comparison of a Hyper-Heuristic and an EA on the Portfolio Optimisation Problem
Soni, R., Craven, M. & Walker, D., 31 Aug 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper (not formally published)
Open AccessFile
Activities
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Water waves: mathematical theory & applicaitons
Stuhlmeier, R. (Organiser)
5 Sept 2019 → 6 Sept 2019Activity: Event organisation or participation › Organising, hosting and/or delivering a workshop, seminar, course
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Water waves: mathematical theory & applications
Stuhlmeier, R. (Organiser)
28 Aug 2024 → 30 Aug 2024Activity: Event organisation or participation › Organising, hosting and/or delivering a workshop, seminar, course
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British Neuroscience Association (External organisation)
Courtman, M. (Member)
2022 → 2024Activity: Membership › Member of professional body or learned society
Prizes
Press/Media
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£1m to unite generations in developing technologies for coastal communities
Gaudl, S., Maudlin, D. & Zhou, S.-M.
11/05/22
1 item of Media coverage
Media story
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Datasets
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Tow tank testing of a 1:70 Froude scaled floating offshore wind turbine
Roberts, A. (Creator), Kazemi, S. (Creator), Le Pivert, F. (Creator), Tosdevin, T. (Creator), Lopez-Santander, A. (Creator) & Craven, M. (Creator), University of Plymouth, 15 Jul 2025
DOI: 10.24382/acd8d057-b2c6-49d5-a52b-d155f30017d4, https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/fose-datasets/56/
Dataset
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CCP-WSI_TestCase_002
Ransley, E. (Creator), University of Plymouth, 30 May 2024
DOI: 10.24382/5022, https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/fose-datasets/12/
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Phil Trans R Soc A dataset
Raby, A. (Creator), University of Plymouth, 30 May 2024
DOI: 10.24382/pr8p-g562, https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/fose-datasets/38/
Dataset
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Student theses
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A BIASED COMPETITION COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF SPATIAL AND OBJECT-BASED ATTENTION MEDIATING ACTIVE VISUAL SEARCH
LANYON, L. J. (Author), Denham, S. (Director of Studies (First Supervisor)), Denham, M. (Other Supervisor) & Bugmann, G. (Other Supervisor), 2005Student thesis: PhD
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A Biophysical Model of the Role of the Outer Hair Cell in Cochlear Nonlinearity
Jiang, B. (Author), Denham, S. (Director of Studies (First Supervisor)) & Wennekers, T. (Other Supervisor), 2010Student thesis: PhD
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