PhD in Sensing, Processing and AI for Defence and Security (CDT SPADS) The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University in United Kingdom

🎓 PhD opportunity at The University of Manchester in power electronics , printed circuit board (PCB) design , reinforcement learning , and Monte Carlo Tree Search . The project aims to build an AI-driven placement and routing engine to automate a layout process that is still done largely by hand. This is a strong fit for students interested in electrical engineering , computer science , and related areas of physics . Funding: Fully funded for 3.5 years, including tuition fees, a UKRI stipend of ...

Research Fellow in Advanced Semiconductor Device Modelling at the University of Surrey (Guildford, United Kingdom). This is a full-time, fixed-term research position on EPSRC project EP/Y000196/1 , focused on advanced semiconductor device modelling for source-gated transistors (SGTs) and multimodal transistors (MMTs) . The successful candidate will develop and validate predictive models using methods such as high-fidelity TCAD , compact modelling , surrogate modelling , and physics-informed mach...

PhD opportunity in Controlling Errors in Quantum Computers at Imperial College London , supervised by Dr Zhenyu Cai . This project targets one of the central challenges in quantum computation : reducing and controlling errors in quantum machines. The research aims to develop a full-stack approach to quantum error suppression , integrating methods across multiple layers of the quantum computing stack. Relevant research areas include quantum error correction , quantum error mitigation , and quantu...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in neuromorphic silicon for non-invasive communication BCIs , with a focus on EEG , brain–computer interfaces , electrical engineering , biomedical engineering , computer science , and machine learning . The project addresses a key bottleneck in EEG-based BCIs: the computing behind decoding. Instead of relying on a laptop or cloud, the research aims to move decoding onto the head using neuromorphic AI hardware. The work includes novel event-based ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Surrey in Smart Optical Design: AI Tools for the Next Generation of Cinematic Camera Lenses . This funded project sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence , Computer Vision , Computer Graphics , Machine Learning , and computational imaging . The research aims to build a computational framework that combines data-driven modelling and differentiable rendering to accelerate lens design and simulation. The project will explore both forward simulation (...