PhD and Postdoc Openings in Agile Aerial Autonomy, Robotics Information Bottlenecks, and Certified Visual Reasoning University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in United States

Two fully funded openings are available in Robotics and AI for construction at Syracuse University , in the Lab of Dr. Yizhi Liu within Civil & Environmental Engineering. The positions can be filled by two PhD students or by one PhD student and one postdoc . The research focuses on developing and evaluating intelligent robots that can perceive, learn, and interact with humans in dynamic, unstructured construction environments . The work spans the full research pipeline: AI/robotics algorithm dev...

Assistant Professor Shivam Bajaj at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is looking for highly motivated Ph.D. and M.S. students to join his research group. The research area is at the intersection of controls and multi-agent reinforcement learning , with related interests in control systems , reinforcement learning , and game theory . Preferred backgrounds include aerospace engineering , electrical and computer engineering , mechanical engineering , or related fields. Prior research experience ...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Power Systems , Artificial Intelligence , and Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy at Oklahoma State University in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering . The position is associated with the X-Intelligent Energy (X-ING) Lab and is aimed at students interested in energy systems, smart grids, data-driven control, and AI-enabled power engineering. The post highlights a fully funded PhD opening and invites applicants with a background in Electrical Engi...

Donggun Lee, Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, is recruiting 2–3 funded Ph.D. students to join the Intelligent Controls Lab (ICL) starting in Fall 2027. The lab focuses on robotics and autonomous systems, with research directions including safe autonomy under uncertainty, multi-agent autonomy and decision making, and learning plus control. Example application areas mentioned in the post include mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, and robotic manipulators. The opport...

Tecnológico de Monterrey is inviting interested researchers to a private gathering at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh (September 27–October 1, 2026) to introduce open positions for research professors (profesores investigadores). The opportunity is aimed at PhD candidates nearing graduation , recent PhD graduates , and postdoctoral researchers working in robotics , intelligent systems , or closely related areas. The post highlights a growing robotics and intelligent-systems agenda at a leading Latin Ame...