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Queen Mary University of London is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in Continual Agent Learning for Lifelong Adaptation and Improvement in Complex Environments within the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. The project sits at the intersection of Computer Science , Artificial Intelligence , Machine Learning , Reinforcement Learning , and large language models , with a strong emphasis on AI agents , multimodal learning , catastrophic forgetting , long-horizon planning...

Queen Mary University of London is advertising a fully funded PhD in Continual AI and Autonomous Agents . The project focuses on the next generation of intelligent systems that can continuously learn, adapt, and retain knowledge over time without catastrophic forgetting. Research themes highlighted in the post include continual learning , large language models (LLMs) , multimodal AI , reinforcement learning , long-horizon planning , and knowledge transfer in autonomous agents . This is a strong ...

The University of Bristol's School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology is offering a PhD position focused on scalable intelligent planning for partially observable uncertain systems. Modern infrastructure, including power grids, water networks, and transportation systems, relies on sustainable and continuous operation. However, these 'systems of systems' are complex, nonlinear, and often stochastic, making their management a significant scientific and logistical challenge. Small local fail...

Edinburgh Napier University is advertising one fully funded PhD position in the Blockpass Identity Lab on the project “Autonomous Identity-Centric Threat Inference & Response System” , co-funded by Acumen Cyber. The research sits at the intersection of cyber security , identity-centric security , threat inference , MITRE ATT&CK , autonomous response , agentic AI , cryptography , and machine learning . The project aims to move beyond reactive security and build an autonomous, identity-aware syste...

Reykjavik University is advertising a fully funded PhD position in data science / machine learning within the Department of Computer Science . The project focuses on ensemble feature selection for supervised learning , making it a strong fit for applicants interested in machine learning methodology, feature selection, and data-driven research. The position is announced by Christoph Lohrmann , Assistant Professor at Reykjavik University. The post indicates that the doctoral studies are fully fund...