PhD in Continuous Affective Control for Generative AI University of Southampton in United Kingdom

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...

Queen Mary University of London is advertising visiting PhD opportunities in Multimodal AI and Generative AI with Dr Dimitrios Kollias. The research team is looking for 3–4 visiting PhD students to join for 6–12 months, with 12 months preferred, starting from January 2027 or shortly thereafter. The advertised research topics include talking-head / digital avatar generation , deepfake detection , generative modelling , multitask affect prediction , contextual affect recognition and generation , c...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in human-swarm interaction , robotics , artificial intelligence , computer vision , and human-computer interaction . This project, supervised by Dr Mohammad Soorati in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences , focuses on how humans can communicate high-level intent to robot swarms and how swarms can explain their behaviour, decisions, intentions, and emerging problems in intuitive ways. The research may explore graphical interfaces, natur...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), University College London, for the XR-SENSE project, a major EU Horizon-funded collaboration developing next-generation immersive and inclusive XR technologies. The successful researcher will focus on multimodal affect recognition and modelling, bringing together machine learning , computer vision , physiological sensing , and human-participant studies to support personalised XR experiences. This is a full-time, 2-ye...

King’s College London is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in the Department of Engineering under the supervision of Professor Yansha Deng . The project focuses on goal-oriented multi-agent communications and networking , with applications to Physical AI , robotics , and 2D/3D video over constrained communication networks . The research sits at the intersection of telecommunications , wireless communications , video compression , artificial intelligence , machine learning , computer vis...