PhD Studentship in Efficient Long-Horizon Task Execution in Physical AI (Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics) Durham University in United Kingdom

Durham University is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in Efficient Physical AI for Real-World Robotics , supported by Intel. The project sits at the intersection of computer science , robotics , machine learning , computer vision , reinforcement learning , embodied AI , and edge AI . The research aims to develop capable, efficient, deployable Physical AI for real robots. Possible directions include robot foundation models, vision-language-action models, long-horizon reasoning and plann...

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...

Fully funded 4-year doctoral studentship at the University of Oxford in Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems , jointly with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and the EPSRC CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems (AIMS) . This opportunity is aimed at PhD applicants interested in research at the intersection of robotics , computer science , electrical engineering , and AI governance . The post is described as a fully funded doctoral studentship with an October 2027 start . P...

PhD opportunity at the University of Bath in Multimodal Spatial Intelligence and Traffic World Models . This project sits at the intersection of computer vision , multimodal AI , spatial reasoning , and traffic-environment modeling. The research aims to develop methods that better understand and represent complex traffic scenes using multiple data modalities and intelligent spatial inference. The opportunity is shared from the research group supervised by Nic Zhang at the University of Bath. It ...

PhD applications are now open for the Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group at the University of Cambridge. The group admits several funded PhD students each year, with research interests spanning probabilistic systems, information and inference, networks, and the physics of complex systems. This is a strong fit for applicants with backgrounds or interests in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, and related quantitative fields. George Cantwell, Assistant Professo...