Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman

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 post says the successful candidate will join a PGTA PhD route , gaining valuable university teaching experience alongside doctoral research. Funding includes a Grade 6 salary of £31,236 and home PhD tuition fees covered for the full six-year award . There may also be an opportunity to engage with an aligned industry-focused spin-out in secure distributed AI. Ideal applicants should be motivated by secure and resilient autonomous systems and interested in collaborative learning under compromised conditions in UAV swarms. No deadline is stated in the post. Apply through the provided link and review the project details before submitting your application.