This is a documentary of my real path from a Computer Science student in London to a fully funded PhD focused on AI and financial markets at the University of Manchester.
I’m not sharing tips after the fact. I’m recording everything as it happens.
You will see me:
search the Manchester website for the exact PhD project
read the papers of the potential supervisor
connect my CNN–LSTM stock prediction work to Bayesian financial econometrics
write the research proposal from scratch
draft and send real emails to supervisors
prepare the application, documents, and funding case
go through interviews, responses, and decisions
If I get accepted, this channel continues for 3.5 years with weekly research progress during the PhD.
No generic advice. No polished story. Just the real process, recorded step by step.
If you’re curious how someone actually moves from student projects in machine learning to doctoral research in AI for financial time series in the UK, you’re in the right place.