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We have 640 ai PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Spatial AI: Understanding the world, art and humanities through Computer Vision, Image Processing & Deep Learning

  Research Group: Neural Artifact Lab
Understanding the world around us is a fundamental challenge for social and industrial impact. This PhD project fits within the scope of spatial reasoning, solving AI problems from theoretical to real-world applications from a vision/image perspective. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S James
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI-Assisted Modelling of Flow and Compaction of Refractory Metal Powders

  Research Group: School of Computer Science
Please note that the start date for this project is 1 February 2027. One fully funded PhD scholarship is available jointly in the School of Computer Science and the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds in 2026/27. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Rabbani, Dr X Jia, Dr W P Goh
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI, Community Data and Public Decision-Making: Turning Lived Experience into Trustworthy Evidence

Public decision-making is increasingly shaped by data. Yet the evidence used by health systems, local authorities, and other public bodies is still dominated by administrative data designed for performance monitoring, compliance, and cost control. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D King
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Metasurface Technologies for Physical AI: Machine Learning-Enabled Nanophotonics for Medical Applications and Consumer Electronics

Supervisory Team. Dr Xu Fang and Dr Eric Plum. This project will develop next-generation metasurfaces for physical artificial intelligence (Physical AI), where sensing, computation, and decision-making are directly embedded into the physical hardware. . Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Fang
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Enhanced X-ray CT for Defect Detection in Advanced Manufacturing

Supervisory Team. Dr Joseph Lifton. This project develops advanced AI tools to detect hidden defects in advanced manufactured components using X-ray CT imaging. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Lifton
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Privacy-aware Public Trust Infrastructure (PTI) for Elections with AI Fake Detection

 . One fully funded PhD position in the Blockpass Identity Lab at Edinburgh Napier University on a project titled “Privacy-aware Public Trust Infrastructure (PTI) for Elections with AI Fake Detection”. This work is co-funded by Democracy Counts – a leading company within elections in the UK. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof B Buchanan, Dr SUJ Ullah Jan
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Multimodal Deep Learning based AI for UAV (Drones) Detection and Tracking

This PhD focuses on advanced deep-learning based Artificial Intelligence designs and development for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones or swarms) detection and tracking using multimodal sensing, spatiotemporal analysis, and vision–language models. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof H Shum
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD in Engineering - AI-Ready Photonic Chips with Built-In Quantum Thermometry

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) are emerging as a transformative platform for next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, enabling ultrafast, energy-efficient optical data processing. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Sweeney, Prof G Machin
 30 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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The Autonomous Enterprise: Designing Governance Protocols for Agentic AI

As artificial intelligence moves from decision support to autonomous action, organizations face new questions of accountability, trust, control, and human oversight. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI-Driven Structure Prediction for Materials Discovery

The discovery of novel inorganic solid-state materials is essential to advance energy storage, catalysis, semiconductors, and quantum technologies. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky, Prof R Savani
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Postdoctoral Researcher & PhD Student Openings — Battery Sensor Technology & AI

Postdoctoral Researcher & PhD Student Openings — Battery Sensor Technology & AI Department of Applied Physical Sciences, UNC Chapel Hill. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L Ma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Distributed AI-Driven Intrusion Detection for Secure 6G-Enabled Autonomous Vehicle Networks Description

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) rely on tightly coupled sensing, control, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication to operate safely in dynamic environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Pooranian
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI and Data Science for Electoral Integrity and Democratic Governance

Project Description. Aims and Methods . This thesis develops and evaluates AI- and data science–based tools to protect electoral integrity and the free formation of voters’ will from algorithmic manipulation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Liberatore, Dr JC Camacho Collados, Prof L Q Sánchez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Improving satellite communications using AI (Ref: CO/SD-SF1/2026)

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are an energy efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites could particularly benefit from using SNNs to perform Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads in an energy-efficient manner. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Dora, Dr M Derakhshani
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PRIMED for Medincinal Chemistry (PRecision, AI Informed, Molecular EDiting)

  Research Group: Rebecca Goss
The PhD focusses on innovative precision molecule editing and diversification. PRIMED combines late stage enzymatic halogenation with synthetic diversification of aryl and alyl halides. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof JM Goss
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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