PhD Opportunities in Natural Language Processing in United States

We’re hiring PhD research interns for summer 2027 at togethercompute to work on frontier AI agents across text and speech . This is an in-person, full-time opportunity in San Francisco, United States . The post specifically encourages speech researchers to apply and notes that the work will involve research on advanced AI agents, with an emphasis on producing work suitable for top venues . Potential research areas include computer science , machine learning , natural language processing , and sp...

Texas A&M University–Kingsville is advertising 2 funded graduate positions in Artificial Intelligence : 1 PhD student and 1 MS student . The positions are being recruited by Dr. Shaif Chowdhury in the EECS area. The research focus includes artificial intelligence , machine learning , computer vision , deep learning , natural language processing , and underwater imaging . This is a strong fit for students interested in modern AI methods, applied ML, and vision-based research problems. The post st...

Chan Young Park at The University of Texas at Austin is recruiting multiple PhD students for this cycle. The research focus is human-centered AI, alignment, and LLM social reasoning. This is a strong fit for students interested in machine learning, natural language processing, human-AI interaction, and computational studies of language and reasoning. The post does not mention funding, deadline, or a formal application portal. Instead, interested candidates are encouraged to reach out directly to...

John Hewitt at Columbia University says he is hiring PhD students and will be available at COLM for a few 1:1 meetings. The opening is in research areas including interpretability, safety, reasoning, and understanding, with a broader focus on language models, neural networks, and related AI/CS topics. This is a PhD opportunity rather than a scholarship announcement. No funding details, deadline, or formal application portal are provided in the post. Interested candidates should reach out via dir...

Our Responsible AI group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Siebel School of Computing and Data Science / Computer Science, is seeking PhD students for research in human-centered machine learning , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , and community-centric AI design . The post is shared by Sharifa Sultana , an Assistant Professor in CS at UIUC. The opportunity appears to be for students interested in responsible AI, human-centered AI, and socially grounded ...

Assistant Professor Sebastian Speer at Texas A&M University is recruiting PhD students for the Coupled Minds Lab in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences. The lab studies how conversations shape the way people connect, change their minds, and learn. Research topics include how people develop new ideas and learn together, how conversations build consensus or resolve conflict, and how these processes change when humans interact with AI. Methodologically, the group combines fMRI hypersca...

Xiaolei Huang is recruiting 2–3 PhD students for Spring 2027 and Fall 2027 to join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) . The research group focuses on trustworthy NLP , multimodal large language models , edge computing , and quantum AI , with applications in health informatics , precision agriculture , and other science and engineering domains. The broader lab environment also includes work in AI systems, machine learning, computer...