PhD Opportunities in Machine Learning

The University of Vienna’s Faculty of Computer Science is offering two PhD positions within the FWF project EXOSPHERE – Efficient, Expressive and Robust GNNs . The research focuses on graph neural networks (GNNs), with emphasis on developing methods that are efficient, expressive, and robust. The positions are hosted by the Theory and Applications of Algorithms area, providing a research setting centered on theoretical and applied algorithmic computer science. Successful doctoral researchers wil...

Politecnico di Torino is seeking a PhD candidate to join its Multi-Scale Modeling Laboratory (SMaLL) through the newly funded EIC Pathfinder Open project IONFLUX. The project explores whether artificial intelligence and molecular-level understanding can be combined to discover entirely new energy-storage materials. The doctoral researcher will focus on adaptive materials for next-generation sodium batteries, working at the intersection of molecular simulations, machine learning, and materials sc...

Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health is inviting applications for a Fall 2027 PhD in Biostatistics. The program offers advanced training in biostatistics and statistical methodology within a public-health research environment. Students can pursue research across artificial intelligence and machine learning, epidemiology and infectious disease modelling, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, spatial statistics, longitudinal data analysis, statistical genetics and genomics, clinical...

KU Leuven is inviting applications for a PhD project in semantic-aware joint communication and sensing in distributed non-terrestrial networks. The researcher will join WaveCoRE in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) in Leuven, Belgium. The project investigates how aerial sensing networks can exchange meaningful information while reducing energy and bandwidth consumption. The work will explore semantic communication for efficient coordination among aerial nodes, PHY–MAC cross-layer d...

The BRAIN Unit Lab at the University of Padua is seeking a doctoral researcher through the China Scholarship Council pathway for the 2027/2028 academic year. The PhD project sits at the intersection of neuroscience, neuroengineering, artificial intelligence and non-linear signal processing . The research environment focuses on advanced analysis of brain activity for clinical and technological applications. One major direction is brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neural signal decoding, includ...

RWTH Aachen University's Institute for Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) is recruiting for two research assistant positions with the opportunity to pursue a doctorate. The projects examine how sustainable innovations emerge, how new technologies move into practical application, and how regions can benefit from innovation-driven transformation. Data Science & Sustainability This research track applies quantitative and computational methods to socially relevant questions about innovation ...

Niloufar Alipour Talemi is recruiting a fully funded PhD student to join the AIM Lab in the School of Computing at Utah State University , a Carnegie-designated R1 university in the United States. The opening is designed for a highly motivated researcher with a strong background in Computer Vision and Multimodal Foundation Models . The student will join a research environment focused on multimodal artificial intelligence and the development or application of foundation-model approaches that comb...

The University of Oslo is offering a doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Precision Psychiatry, affiliated with the Institute of Clinical Medicine and conducted in collaboration with the Department of Medical Genetics at Oslo University Hospital. The PhD project, Multimodal metabolic markers for mechanisms and predictive trajectories of Alzheimer’s disease , is part of the Back2Future project led by Professor Srdjan Djurovic. It will investigate whether early, heritable metabolic and p...

The University of Nottingham’s Faculty of Engineering is offering a PhD studentship on sustainable aviation fuel thermochemical modelling , conducted in partnership with Airbus. The project addresses challenges affecting the adoption of sustainable aviation fuels by examining their thermophysical and thermochemical behaviour under conditions typical of aircraft fuel systems. The research will investigate how heat transfer, fuel chemistry, and physical behaviour interact. You will use computation...