PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Reinforcement Learning in United Kingdom

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...

PhD Studentship Opportunity: Machine Learning for Groundwater Pollution at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. This fully funded PhD is offered through the Iapetus DTP NERC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) Studentship Competition 2026–27. The project title is Reconstructing Groundwater Pollution Release Histories under Geological Uncertainty Using Machine Learning and Adaptive Monitoring . The research combines several high-impact areas: groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling...

[4-year University Scholarship with minimum tax-free stipend at the current UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26), RTSG £8,400, and full tuition fees covered.] PhD studentship at the University of Bristol on Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Public Health . This project sits at the intersection of machine learning, AI, statistics, reinforcement learning, active learning, Bayesian decision theory, and stochastic optimisation . The research aims to develop novel methods for adaptive lear...

King's College London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human-Robot Interaction within the Social AI & Robotics Lab (SAIR) , led by Oya Celiktutan . The role is part of CO-STAR (CO-designing Socially inTelligent Assistive Robots for Future Healthcare), a fellowship-linked project focused on translating cutting-edge AI and robotics research into healthcare settings. The successful candidate will work on human-centred AI and socially intelligent robotics, with research interests i...

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...

[4-year University Scholarship with minimum tax-free stipend at the current UKRI rate (2025/26 standard stipend £20,780), RTSG £8,400, and full tuition fees covered.] PhD Studentship at the University of Bristol on Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Public Health . This fully funded PhD project sits at the intersection of machine learning, AI, statistics, and public health. The research will develop new methods for adaptive learning, sequential decision-making, and control in unce...

Nicola Paoletti, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, is looking for prospective PhD students to join the Department of Informatics. The planned start is October 2027. The opening is centered on two broad research directions: Reliable and Robust Inference for AI Safety and Security , and Counterfactual Causal Reasoning for Sequential Decision-Making and AI Systems . The first project focuses on AI monitoring and decision-making with rigorous probabilistic guarantees under distribution shift...

[4-year University Scholarship; minimum tax-free stipend at the current UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26 standard stipend); RTSG £8,400; full tuition fees covered.] PhD Studentship: Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Public Health at the University of Bristol . This fully funded PhD project sits at the intersection of machine learning, statistical decision theory, and public health. It focuses on decision-making under uncertainty in dynamic environments where observations arrive seq...

PhD opportunity at the University of Bristol in Shaping Collective Traffic Behaviour through Multi-Agent Learning-Based Control . This project sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence , machine learning , control systems , autonomous driving , and intelligent transportation systems . The research focuses on mixed autonomy, where connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and human drivers share the road, and asks how learning-based control can shape collective traffic behaviour toward effic...