The Youngflesh Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University is seeking 1-2 PhD students to join the lab in Fall 2026. The lab's research focuses on quantitative ecology, biodiversity conservation, and population biology, with a strong emphasis on using advanced data science tools such as hierarchical Bayesian modeling and AI to address questions in global change ecology. Potential research topics include drivers of biodiversity, demographic and life history dynamics, and ph...

The University of Central Florida's Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI) is offering the AI For All Doctoral Fellowship, beginning Fall 2026. This prestigious PhD opportunity is designed for highly motivated researchers interested in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interdisciplinary fields. The fellowship encourages applicants to explore innovative research at the intersection of AI and diverse disciplines, including Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Physics, Chemistry, Mechani...

The SYMBIO-X Lab at Vanderbilt University, led by Prof. Yayun Du, is recruiting one PhD student for Fall 2026 (with a possible Summer 2026 start) to work on sensor-in-the-loop human-robot interaction. The research focuses on integrating multimodal physiological sensing with robotic control and reinforcement learning to enable safe and efficient human-in-the-loop autonomy. The project will involve working with robotic arms (such as Franka, UR, or xArm), developing and implementing control algorit...

Louisiana State University is offering graduate research assistantship opportunities for highly motivated PhD and Master's students in the field of Agricultural Robotics and AI in Precision Agriculture. The positions are based in the School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with an anticipated start date in the Summer or Fall semester of 2026. Successful candidates will conduct innovative research in agricultural robotics, AI-driven decision support s...

The SPARC (Safe + Performant Autonomous Robotics & Control) Lab at Tufts University, led by Assistant Professor Ryan K. Cosner, is recruiting talented, passionate, and driven engineers for a fully funded PhD position in Robotics, Control, and Machine Learning. The lab focuses on developing safe and performant robot autonomy at the intersection of robotics, control theory, and machine learning. Research in the lab aims to create deployable, trustworthy autonomy algorithms that enable robots to wo...

Dr. Ehsan Elhamifar, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, is recruiting PhD students to join the Neural Visual AI (NOVA) Lab for Fall 2026. The lab focuses on cutting-edge research in computer vision, video understanding (egocentric and exocentric), long-video reasoning and generation, multimodal large language models, and the development of virtual and embodied AI assistants. The research aims to develop AI systems that can learn from complex human activities and scenes, make inferen...

Microsoft Research has announced a new Research Fellowship focused on Provenance UX, targeting the design, implementation, and evaluation of tools that help end users interpret signals of content authenticity and provenance. This opportunity is open to PhD students, postdocs, and faculty, and is guided by leading researchers Abi Sellen and Eric Horvitz. The fellowship addresses urgent challenges in human-computer interaction (HCI), digital trust, and the fight against misinformation and disinfor...

The Martin Tuchman School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is inviting applications for its PhD in Business Data Science program, starting Fall 2026. As an R1 (top-tier) research university, NJIT offers a STEM-designated doctoral program that prepares scholars to lead at the intersection of business, data, and technology. The program features interdisciplinary training in business, data analytics, and computing, with research opportunities in artificial intelligence...

The Computer Vision and Machine Learning Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, led by Assistant Professor Yaoyao Liu, is recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Information Sciences, Computer Science, and Informatics. The group focuses on cutting-edge research in computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, continual learning, few-shot learning, 3D generative models, and medical image analysis. Applicants should have a strong background in these areas and...