PhD Studentship in Computer Science: Empirical Security Assessment of AI Decision Engines in Cyber-Physical Systems Newcastle University in United Kingdom

Manchester Metropolitan University is advertising a funded PhD on Lightweight Trust-Aware Private Federated Learning for Secure UAV Swarms under Model Poisoning Attacks . The project sits at the intersection of computer science , artificial intelligence , cyber security , federated learning , privacy-preserving computation , edge intelligence , and UAV systems . The research aims to develop secure and robust methods for UAV swarms that collaboratively train AI models without sharing raw data. Th...

NTNU is advertising a PhD Candidate in Trustworthy Agentic Artificial Intelligence (308144) at the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory in NTNU Ålesund , with affiliation to the Norwegian Maritime AI Centre . The project focuses on trustworthy agentic AI —AI systems that do more than answer questions and instead plan, use tools, and make decisions with increasing autonomy. The research theme is centered on how to make these agents reliable, safe, transparent, and worthy of trust , with strong relev...

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...

PhD opportunities are available at Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH) in the areas of Physical AI , Multi-Agent Systems , and 6G Networks . The project sits at the intersection of autonomous agents, networking, and cyber-physical systems, with research directions that may include embodied agents, edge-cloud continuum infrastructure, AI-network-control co-design, collaborative mobile robotics, and connected automated mobility. The positions are described as fully funded under the Spanish PhD empl...