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cardiff computer science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 31 cardiff computer science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Explainable AI using human-computer dialogue

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Details. Abstract . With the rise of autonomous intelligent technology, the ability to explain why a particular action was proposed or taken is more urgent than ever. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MWA Caminada, Dr R Booth
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Geo-Aware Graph Learning for Transferable Flood Mapping from Earth Observation Data (GRAFT)

Project Description. Flood mapping from Earth observation (EO) data is a critical input to disaster risk management and climate resilience planning. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr O Karakus, Dr P Corcoran, Prof P Rosin, Prof P Atkinson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Foundation Models for Tactical Understanding in Football (FOUND-Football)

Project Description. The increasing availability of high-resolution football tracking data has transformed performance analysis, yet most existing machine learning approaches remain task-specific, league-dependent, and poorly transferable. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr O Karakus, Dr P Corcoran, Prof P Atkinson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Creepy Office: Using speculative design methods to explore privacy, security and ethical considerations for connected workplaces

  Research Group: Cybersecurity, Privacy and HCC Research Section
Project Description. Background. Our workplaces are becoming increasingly connected. While this enables remote work and can improve accessibility, it can also introduce potential issues related to workplace surveillance. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Stawarz, Dr S Gould, Dr A Ramirez Gomez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Generative Bayesian Inference for Remote Sensing Inverse Problems (GENESIS-RS)

Project Description. Remote sensing measurements provide indirect, noisy, and often incomplete observations of environmental systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr O Karakus, Prof P Rosin, Prof P Atkinson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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What Makes Visual Experience Informative? From Developmental Vision to Data-Efficient AI and Back

Modern AI systems learn from unprecedented volumes of visual data, yet children develop flexible visual abilities through much smaller amounts of visual experience. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Zhou, Prof P Rosin, Dr H D'Souza
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Do Language Models Mean What They Say? Checking LLM Explanations from the Inside

Ask a modern LLM a difficult question and it will often “think out loud” before answering, walking you through its reasoning step by step. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M T Pilehvar, Dr JC Camacho Collados
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Decision Tree Induction from Small Language Models for Black-Box LLM Adaptation

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Description. Flagship black-box large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-5 and Gemini-3 perform well across a wide range of tasks, including those that require reasoning or generating explanations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Kumar, Prof S Schockaert
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Responsible Evaluation and Co-designed Deployment of Large Language Models for Symptom Assessment in Psychosis

Mental health services hold large amounts of information in clinical notes, including descriptions of symptoms, risk, treatment and personal circumstances. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Zhou, Dr JC Camacho Collados, Dr VGB Gutiérrez Basulto, Dr AFP Pardiñas
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Autonomous Multi-Agent Cyber Defence at Scale: Detection, Coordination and Response

  Research Group: Cybersecurity, Privacy and HCC Research Section
Project Description. AI-driven cyber defence systems promise faster detection and response, but real deployments remain constrained by limited scalability and weak coordination across distributed environments. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr TL Li, Dr Y Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Computational abstraction for biologically plausible models of reasoning

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Description. AI research today adheres to a data-first paradigm. From a mathematical perspective, however, data can be seen as a product of models, i.e., mathematical assumptions such as structures, variables, and parameters, underlying AI systems.  . Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Kido, Dr Y Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Towards Scalable and Reliable Human Evaluation Frameworks for NLP Systems

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Description . Human evaluation remains a central component of assessing modern natural language processing (NLP) systems, particularly for tasks where correctness, usefulness, or appropriateness cannot be fully captured by automatic metrics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Alva Manchego, Dr N Verdezoto Dias
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Human-AI Collaboration for High-Stakes Text Production

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Description . As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems (such as Large Language Models) are increasingly used to support high-stakes text production, understanding how humans and AI systems should collaborate becomes critical. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Alva Manchego, Prof S Schockaert
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Designing Benchmarks that Reflect Real-World NLP Use

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Description . NLP benchmarks strongly influence research directions, yet many benchmarks prioritise convenience and leaderboard performance over realism, usability, and societal relevance. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Alva Manchego, Dr JC Camacho Collados
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Intelligent, low-power, and networked biodiversity monitoring device

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 Supervisors: Dr J Beuchert, Dr NP Pham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only