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Umeå University is offering a PhD position in Computing Science focused on machine learning for graph transformations . The project explores a hybrid approach combining deep learning with grammatical inference to create models that are interpretable, efficient, and mathematically verifiable while retaining the flexibility of neural methods. Graphs are increasingly important for representing structured information, including sentences, computer programs, social networks, and outputs from generati...

This PhD project at Umeå University sits in the Department of Computing Science and focuses on machine learning for graph transformations . The research aims to combine deep learning with grammatical inference to build models that are interpretable, efficient, and mathematically verifiable, while still benefiting from the flexibility of neural methods. The project is centered on graphs as a representation of structured information, from sentences and computer programs to social networks, and on ...

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...

The Rhine AI research group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in post-training diffusion language models. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is titled “Foundations of Post-Training for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models.” The successful candidate will develop reinforcement learning methods for post-training large diffusion-based language models, investigate reasonin...

Erasmus University Rotterdam’s Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) is seeking highly motivated PhD candidates in quantitative marketing. The fully funded and salaried position combines marketing science with machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, econometrics, economics, and consumer behavior. Research may address AI methods for adaptive decision-making, experimentation, personalization, multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning, agentic AI, consumer or firm learning, privacy ...

Oslo University Hospital invites applications for a fully funded three-year PhD Research Fellowship in AI-Native Networking for Healthcare within the SYNAPSE project, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project develops network control and distributed learning methods for healthcare scenarios such as remote patient monitoring and hospital-at-home. The research is centered on adaptive networking, where scheduling, routing, and resource allocation respond to network conditions and clinic...

Google Research is seeking a PhD research intern for 2027 to work with Yongshuo Zong in Mountain View, United States. The opportunity is with the MedGemma team, which develops open-weight multimodal foundation models for healthcare. Research topics include multimodal reinforcement learning, AI agents, and related research directions for healthcare. The intern will work directly with Yongshuo Zong and contribute to a focused research team within Google Research. Applicants should review the linke...

PhD student position in Group 4: Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence at the MAB QLAB Centre , University of Warsaw, Poland. The position sits within the Centre for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Information Technologies (QLAB), a joint initiative of the University of Warsaw and Sorbonne Université. QLAB develops scalable hybrid quantum-classical technologies across quantum-secure communication, quantum infrastructure and photonic information processing, quantum imaging and metrology, and qua...

The DLR-Institut für Future Fuels is hiring a PhD student to work on the control of high-temperature solar-chemical processes. The research lies at the intersection of renewable energy, process modelling, process control, solar fuels, and solar-thermal chemistry . The project will develop and test control strategies for high-temperature solar-chemical processes, with validation on real prototypes. Potential approaches include model predictive control and reinforcement learning . The position is ...