PhD Position in Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning at the University of Bern University of Bern in Switzerland

Applications are invited for a full-time, 36-month PhD position in theoretical machine learning at École Normale Supérieure (ENS - PSL) in Paris, hosted by the Centre Sciences des Données (CSD) within the Département d’Informatique / DI-ENS. The project focuses on developing a new theoretical framework to understand feature learning and parameter dynamics in artificial neural networks. The research will draw on Riemannian geometry and information geometry to study learning regimes in deep neural...

Professor K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi at Stevens Institute of Technology is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026 or Spring 2027 . The lab works at the intersection of trustworthy AI and intelligent systems , with research spanning trustworthy machine learning , agentic systems , and workflows. The focus is on building AI systems that not only perform well, but can also explain themselves, reason effectively, and operate reliably in complex real-world settings. Applicants should have strong Python ...

Up to 3 PhD positions are open in the interdisciplinary EXPRESSO project, part of the Tübingen Excellence Cluster Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science at the University of Tübingen. The project focuses on quantum physics and machine learning , with research topics including probabilistic simulation and inference for quantum gases, simulation-guided model discovery via adaptive amortized inference, and representation learning for optimization in exponential search spaces. Supervision is...

Pennsylvania State University is advertising a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the Department of Mathematics within the Eberly College of Science at Penn State in State College, Pennsylvania, United States . The project begins in January 2027 and focuses on probabilistic methods in machine learning , including random matrix theory , Gaussian processes , and applications to deep neural nets . The successful candidate will work with Professor Leonid Berlyand . Applicants should have recently comp...

The research groups of Prof. A. Lucchi and Prof. I. Bogunovic at the University of Basel invite applications for a PhD or postdoctoral position in Large Language Models (LLMs) , with a focus on pre-training, post-training, and reasoning. The project aims to improve how modern AI systems reason, generalize, and adapt to specialized domains. The successful candidate will work on methods for LLM reasoning with applications in mathematical reasoning, decision-making, and robust generalization across...