PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Reinforcement Learning in Portugal

Umeå University is offering a PhD position in Computing Science focused on machine learning for graph transformations . The project explores a hybrid approach combining deep learning with grammatical inference to create models that are interpretable, efficient, and mathematically verifiable while retaining the flexibility of neural methods. Graphs are increasingly important for representing structured information, including sentences, computer programs, social networks, and outputs from generati...

This PhD project at Umeå University sits in the Department of Computing Science and focuses on machine learning for graph transformations . The research aims to combine deep learning with grammatical inference to build models that are interpretable, efficient, and mathematically verifiable, while still benefiting from the flexibility of neural methods. The project is centered on graphs as a representation of structured information, from sentences and computer programs to social networks, and on ...

Google DeepMind’s Genomics team in London is hiring a Student Researcher for 2027 through the Student Researcher Program. The opportunity is designed for PhD students interested in applying advanced machine-learning methods to genomic models. The research focus combines machine learning, post-training and reinforcement learning with genomics. The successful researcher will contribute to projects exploring how these methods can be used to develop or improve models for genomic applications, within...

This opening is part of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program and sits within the Science of Intelligence Systems (SIS) area. The project focuses on computational methods for robots operating in dynamic, unstructured environments, with an emphasis on enabling machines to perceive and understand their surroundings, move and orient themselves, and collaborate in complex missions with limited human intervention. The research is explicitly aimed at Army-relevant robotics...

The Lehigh University Plasma Control Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to advance control systems, artificial intelligence, and scientific machine learning for fusion energy . The role sits within the Lehigh University Plasma Control Group (LU-PCG) , directed by Professors Eugenio Schuster and Tariq Rafiq , and centers on research for magnetically confined fusion plasmas in tokamaks. The postdoc will contribute to a program that combines theory-based modeling, predictive simulation...

The Computational Medicine Research Group at the University of California, Irvine, led by Prof. Pratik Shah , is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work at the intersection of generative AI, medical imaging, and clinical decision support. The project focuses on building and interpreting deep learning systems for digital biopsies from high-parameter pathology and other medical images, together with methods that connect molecular profiles to disease biology and support diagnostic tool developmen...

This postdoctoral fellowship at DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory focuses on machine learning for state estimation and decision propagation in highly heterogeneous environments where humans are coupled to machine decision agents. The project is framed around a Network of Networks research program and aims to develop novel theories, validation experiments, and hardware implementations for human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning , transfer learning , and the transfer of learned behavior across hete...

The Rhine AI research group, led by Prof. I. Bogunovic in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a postdoctoral position in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, focuses on the post-training of diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) and improving their reasoning capabilities. The postdoctoral researcher will develop reinforcement-learning meth...

The Rhine AI research group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in post-training diffusion language models. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is titled “Foundations of Post-Training for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models.” The successful candidate will develop reinforcement learning methods for post-training large diffusion-based language models, investigate reasonin...