oDocs Eye Care Co-Funded Ph.D.
We are offering fully-funded scholarships for eligible Ph.D. candidates.
Research Areas:
Optics, Bio-engineering or Mechatronics
Pathway
oDocs Ph.D. Scholarship
Research to be carried out in collaboration with any of the
New Zealand's eight universities
Student applies to University for a Ph.D. program
Supervisors are allotted by the respective University. You can communicate with the supervisor prior to applying to the University.
oDocs cannot help with the admission process
Enrolment confirmed
University enrolls the student in the Ph.D. program after a thorough evaluation of past educational qualifications of the candidate. A minimum GPE of 5.0 or above is required to get admitted for a Ph.D. program in New Zealand.
Contact oDocs for scholarship support
Research topics finalized
The supervisor and the potential student finalize the research topic.
To be eligible for the oDocs co-funded scholarship, the research topic must be selected from the research topics provided by oDocs. Details about these topics can be found below.
Scholarship awarded
The student is awarded the scholarship for 3 years, which includes $26,000 per year and the University fee for the program enrolled.
Once the award of the scholarship is confirmed, the research will be jointly supervised by the main supervisor (from the University) and co-supervisor (from oDocs Eye Care).
Research program initiated
The Ph.D. research for 3 years minimum will be fully funded by oDocs.
All the research outputs must acknowledge the contribution made by oDocs Eye Care.
oDocs Scholarship Recipients
Roger Hu (2021-23)
Master of Engineering Student (University of Auckland)
Project: Deep-learning based auto triage
Academic Supervisor: Dr. Jaspreet Dhupia
Research Outputs:
R. Hu, R. J. Chalakkal, G. Linde and J. S. Dhupia, "Multi-image Stitching for Smartphone-based Retinal Fundus Stitching," 2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2022, pp. 179-184, doi: 10.1109/AIM52237.2022.9863260.
Research Topics
Bio-Engineering, Computer Vision, Robotics & AI, Optical Imaging, Medical Product Engineering
Current Research - 2021-23
Affordable optical imaging technology
Category: Bio-engineering, optics, medical device
Ocular red-reflex analysis for the prediction of refractive error
Co-funded by Precision Driven Health
Category: Computer vision, bio-engineering
Mobile-based ocular alignment system for quantification of strabismus
Category: Computer vision, bio-engineering
The analysis of ocular spontaneous venous pulsation (SVP)
Category: Computer vision, bio-engineering
Robotic slit-lamp microscopy
Category: Robotics-AI, computer vision, bio-engineeing
Deep learning-based auto triage
Co-funded by Precision Driven Health and Callaghan Innovations
To develop a automatic triage platform for ophthalmology referrals
Category: Computer vision, data analysis, deep learning