National Industry PhD Program

Applications are open for a PhD opportunity at Adelaide University through a National Industry PhD project titled “Data-efficient transformers: Effective training from small datasets” . The project is offered by Adelaide University in partnership with Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) and will be based at the CommBank Centre for Foundational AI Research at AIML . The research focuses on machine learning , artificial intelligence , transformers , and data-efficient training —specifically,...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Flinders University in Biofilm Analysis using Deep Learning techniques for defence applications . The project is led by Dr. Thomas Chaffre (Lecturer in Robotics Engineering) and Professor Sophie Leterme , with co-supervision by Andrew Scardino , Paul Molino , and Richard Piola . It sits within the ARC Training Centre for Biofilm Research & Innovation , a national research centre based at Flinders University with partners across academia, industry, and government. ...

PhD Scholarship opportunity in AI privacy and security at RMIT University in collaboration with CSIRO . The project focuses on protecting data and sensitive information in modern AI systems, including data protection against unauthorised learning , privacy and security in large language models and foundation models , privacy-preserving machine learning , and safeguarding proprietary information in real-world AI applications. This is a strong fit for students interested in computer science , arti...

This PhD scholarship at the University of Newcastle offers an exciting opportunity to develop advanced stealth communication technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military applications. The project, titled Stealth Integrated Sensing and Communications (Stealth-ISAC), aims to enable UAVs to coordinate and sense their environment without revealing their presence to adversaries. This research is highly relevant given the increasing deployment of UAVs in modern warfare, as seen in the ...

Flinders University is offering an Enterprise PhD Scholarship in AI and Data Science for Performance Analytics in Elite AFL , in partnership with the Port Adelaide Football Club (PAFC) . The project is based in Adelaide, South Australia , with an industry-based component at PAFC in Alberton. The PhD will focus on developing performance metrics and KPIs for elite Australian rules football using league-wide data. Research areas include opposition and team analysis, team play-style categorisation, ...