PhD in Adaptive Collective Decision-Making in Robot Swarms University of Southampton in United Kingdom

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 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...

[100% home fees covered plus a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £21,805 at 2026-27 UKRI rates; international applicants must pay the difference between Home and International fees.] This PhD studentship at Newcastle University is based in Computer Science and focuses on the empirical security assessment of AI decision engines in cyber-physical systems (CPS) . The project addresses an important research gap: although AI is increasingly used in safety-critical CPS such as autonomous veh...

UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering is recruiting a fully funded 4-year PhD student to work on Foundational AI . The project sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence , machine learning , reinforcement learning , sequential decision-making , generative models , and foundation models , with possible applications in communication systems , engineering, and scientific discovery. Supervision is by Dr Sattar Vakili at University College London . The research will combine rigorous mathem...