PhD Opportunities in Computer Vision in Italy

Jiaqi Ye, Assistant Professor in AI and Robotics at the University of Birmingham, is seeking a PhD student for research in robot perception, robotics and computer vision within the School of Engineering. The research explores how robots can move beyond recognising objects to understanding their physical properties and interacting with them reliably in complex, changing environments. The work combines computer vision, multimodal sensing and deep learning to support robust robotic perception and a...

EngD at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in a project on making textile production more digital, circular, and scalable for SMEs. The position is embedded in a public-private field lab with TU/e, industry partners, design researchers, and the Dutch Textile Campus, and it focuses on using data-driven methods to improve how used garments are assessed and routed through the textile value chain. The trainee will work on turning machine, production, and ecosystem data into actionable insight...

The University of East Anglia’s School of Computing Sciences is offering a PhD studentship at the intersection of computer graphics and generative AI. The project investigates how agentic AI systems can design, build and refine interactive 3D games and virtual worlds from high-level creative ideas. The research will move beyond generating individual digital assets to developing complete, coherent and playable environments. The PhD researcher may work on AI agents that convert natural-language de...

This PhD project at the University of Southampton will develop compact quantum imaging sensors based on multilayer metasurfaces and entanglement-enabled holography. The research aims to recover image information from photon-pair correlations while addressing strong background noise and optical phase distortion. Metasurfaces are planar nanostructures that shape light. By stacking layers with complementary optical functions, the project will investigate compact modules for beam shaping, beam split...

PhD opportunity in AI and medical ultrasound focused on SynthUS, a project developing robust ultrasound foundation models through differentiable domain randomisation. The research addresses the substantial variability of real-world medical ultrasound images, which presents a major challenge for AI-based analysis. The project will combine physics-based image simulation, generative AI, and differentiable learning to create models that generalise across imaging domains. The PhD researcher will inve...

This PhD project at Monash University focuses on developing machine learning methods for in situ materials characterisation . The student will work on modern experimental datasets that capture microstructure, crystallography, phase evolution, chemistry, and morphology, with the aim of learning physically meaningful representations that help explain how materials evolve during processing and phase transformation. The project is based in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within t...

This fully funded PhD investigates how artificial intelligence can support fetal growth monitoring and improve pregnancy care. The project will use longitudinal ultrasound data to identify high-risk fetal growth trajectories, with the aim of enabling more informed monitoring and earlier recognition of pregnancies that may require additional clinical attention. Based in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool, the project forms part of the MRC North West Doctoral Pr...

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 Eastern Finland is recruiting three doctoral researchers for the School of Computing on the Kuopio campus to join the ERC-funded MINE-THE-GAP project. The project combines satellite imagery, mining data reports, and AI to study mining activities and their impacts worldwide, with a focus on improving transparency and sustainability in mining. Each doctoral researcher will lead an individual thesis within one of three research themes: mapping mining land use through semantic segm...