PhD Opportunities in Machine Learning in Australia

Flinders University is advertising PhD Scholarships in Science and Enterprise (2027 Intake) in Australia . The post highlights multiple newly funded PhD projects across different themes, including AI and data science for elite sports performance analytics and medical research focused on early detection of ovarian cancer . This is a fully funded PhD opportunity with a living allowance plus full tuition coverage . It appears to be a project-based scholarship call with several openings rather than ...

University of Southern Queensland (Australia) is offering an HDR/PhD scholarship in physics-informed and explainable AI for water security . The project focuses on uncertainty-aware modelling from multisource environmental observations, combining in-situ water-quality measurements, flow data, hyperspectral reflectance, and satellite imagery (including Sentinel and Landsat) accessed through CSIRO’s EASI environment. The research uses real-world CSIRO Aqua-Watch pilots and Hunter Water Corporation...

Fully funded 3.5-year PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne , School of Computing and Information Systems, in Australia . Research topic: Strategy extraction and generalisation for AI agents . The project focuses on developing new methods for AI agents to learn strategic knowledge from observed behaviour and transfer that knowledge to new tasks with different representations. The work builds on sequence alignment techniques, ontological reasoning, strategy transfer, and policy learning....

Last-minute domestic PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Western Australia for research on seagrass ecology , conservation , genetics , bioinformatics , and marine restoration in Shark Bay, Western Australia . The project asks why Shark Bay’s seagrass meadows are still struggling to recover after an extreme climatic event in 2011. The successful candidate will join a research team working in a UNESCO World Heritage Area and will contribute to investigations of genetic drivers of sea...

Oxford PhD Exchange (ANU to Oxford University) is a research exchange opportunity for PhD / HDR candidates at the Australian National University to spend one academic year or one to two academic terms at Oxford University . The exchange is designed to help excellent doctoral researchers enrich their work in an international setting, with opportunities to conduct independent research, audit classes, attend workshops, and network with academics in their field. The call is open to all disciplines ,...

Flinders University is advertising a PhD Scholarship in AI and Data Science for Performance Analytics in Elite AFL , in partnership with the Port Adelaide Football Club . The project is based in Adelaide, South Australia , with an industry component at PAFC in Alberton. The research focuses on performance metrics, key performance indicators, opposition and team analysis, play-style categorisation, influential statistical indicators, player categorisation, rating models, and forecasting models to...

PhD scholarship opportunity in PFAS thermal desorption and destruction at the University of Newcastle in collaboration with CSIRO and industry partner SV Joint Venture Pty Ltd trading as EarthSure . This project sits within the CSIRO Industry PhD Program (iPhD) and focuses on applied research that addresses real-world environmental remediation challenges in Australia. The research aims to improve understanding of how PFAS are desorbed from impacted soils and destroyed in the gas phase within a c...

Glenn and Ken Moss PhD Scholarships in Engineering Research at the University of Newcastle support doctoral research in Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics , with possible consideration for another engineering discipline if no suitable candidate is available in the primary areas. This is a donor-funded supplementation scholarship for current University of Newcastle PhD candidates. The post indicates that the scholarship is intended to help retain strong postgraduate engineering researchers a...

La Trobe University is offering a joint PhD scholarship with Sheffield Hallam University for candidates interested in research across biomechanics, neuromechanics, sports science, industrial engineering, operations research, economics/finance, supply chain modelling, and quantitative decision support . The post includes multiple project options, including: - Neuromechanical Adaptations to Load Carriage Exposure (movement analysis, injury prevention, military training, load carriage biomechanics)...