PhD Opportunities in Reinforcement Learning in Ireland

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Mons is offering a three-year PhD fellowship within the Horizon Europe project AISCEND on AI-driven, socially embedded forecasting and energy sharing for community-centered grids. The doctoral project sits in the Electrical Power Engineering Unit and the Power Systems and Markets Research Group , bringing together power systems, optimisation, artificial intelligence, and energy market thinking. The successful candidate will work on methods for day-...

The Aerospace Engineering PhD Programme at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is collecting expressions of interest for two doctoral research topics in its Aerospace Engineering Department, a designated “María de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence for 2026–2031. PhD 1: Flying Anemometers—From Drone Dynamics to Urban Wind Forecasts. This project investigates cooperative drone swarms used as mobile wind sensors. Local wind conditions will be estimated from the drones’ own flight dynamics and used to train a...

Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria is offering a PhD opportunity in robot learning within the Institute for Machine Intelligence. The thesis investigates continual learning, sim-to-real transfer, embodied artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, tactile sensing and robot control. The project sits at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, with a focus on enabling robots to learn continuously and operate effectively in embodied, real-world environments. Research activit...

Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria is offering a PhD position in the Institute for Machine Intelligence focused on robot design and robot learning . The doctoral thesis will investigate the design of robotic hardware and the integration of reinforcement learning for embodied intelligence. The project combines physical robot development with machine learning approaches, creating opportunities to work across robotics, artificial intelligence, computer science, mechatronics, simulation, and...

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join a research team working on Trustworthy and Safety-Constrained AI for Geological Carbon Storage . The project brings together artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, uncertainty, and sustainability to address research challenges in geological carbon storage and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). The candidate will contribute to developing AI approaches that are trustworthy, safety-aware, and suitable ...

DTU Compute is offering PhD scholarships in machine learning for the optimization of cyber-physical systems . The project focuses on developing learning-based methods that can speed up analysis and improve the optimization of systems where exact solutions are too costly to compute in practice. The selected PhD student will work in the Embedded Systems Engineering section at the Technical University of Denmark and join a research environment centered on embedded, distributed, and cyber-physical s...

This PhD project at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain explores how machine learning can be combined with formal verification to build a more general synthesis framework. The research focuses on learning-enabled counterexample-guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS) , where learning methods help search efficiently through candidate solutions while verification checks correctness and returns counterexamples for further improvement. The advertised work aims to move beyond domain-specific syn...

DTU Compute is offering a PhD scholarship focused on developing machine-learning methods for faster analysis and optimization of cyber-physical systems. The project will connect learned prediction models with optimization methods to address analytical calculations and simulations that are too expensive to evaluate repeatedly within practical computing budgets. The PhD researcher will develop surrogate models for predicting outputs such as execution delays, energy use, and resource demands. Machi...

This PhD project is part of the HeatMinds MSCA Doctoral Network and is hosted by SINTEF Energy in close collaboration with Brunel University and other European partners. The advertised project, “Advanced Control Strategies for Dynamic Operation of High-Temperature Heat Pump Systems,” focuses on how high-temperature heat pumps can be controlled and integrated more effectively in dynamic industrial settings. The doctoral research combines thermal engineering with advanced control and optimisation....