Fully Funded 4-Year PhD Studentship in Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems and AI Governance University of Oxford in United Kingdom

PhD Studentship in Assured Runtime Control for Safe Autonomy (ARCS-A) at the University of Exeter , United Kingdom. This funded PhD in Engineering focuses on autonomous systems , robotics , control systems , and AI/ML-enabled safety assurance for autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs/UGVs) operating in complex, unstructured environments. The project aims to develop an assured runtime safety controller that can help autonomous systems operate safely while learning and adapting in real time. The resear...

We are seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant to join the Torr Vision Group in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (central Oxford, United Kingdom). The project is focused on AI safety , AI security , adversarial robustness , and the control of advanced agentic AI systems . The research will study frontier models that interact with operating systems, APIs, software tools, other agents, and complex environments, moving beyond text generation toward systems tha...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Manchester Metropolitan University in AI security for UAV swarms and secure, trustworthy autonomous systems. The project is titled Lightweight Trust-Aware Private Federated Learning for Secure UAV Swarms under Model Poisoning Attacks . It sits at the intersection of computer science , robotics , electrical engineering , and mathematics , with a strong focus on federated learning , edge intelligence , privacy-preserving machine learning , and adversarial AI . The p...

PhD opportunity: Multi-agent reinforcement learning for safe navigation of multiple robots at the University of Southampton (Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences). This project focuses on robotics , machine learning , artificial intelligence , human-robot interaction , and multi-agent reinforcement learning . The research asks how robot swarms can coordinate collective goals while adapting to human comfort, preferences, social expectations, and trust in shared spaces such as homes, workp...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in Secure and Trustworthy AI for Autonomous Vehicle Ecosystems . This project sits in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and is supervised by Dr Erisa Karafili . The research focuses on cybersecurity , artificial intelligence , machine learning , threat modelling , and autonomous vehicles . You will investigate AI-enhanced threat-modelling techniques to improve the resilience of autonomous vehicle ecosystems, including vulnerabilitie...