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computer science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 893 computer science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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AI for Nature: Using computer science to reconnect fragmented freshwater ecosystems

Supervisory Team. Professor Paul Kemp and Dr Andrew Vowles. Freshwater ecosystems are the most degraded on the planet and the species they support the most threatened. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Kemp
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Advancing Symbolic AI for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Generalised Adaptive Content Extraction and Reuse for Ontologies

Automated content extraction methods provide useful resources for backend-processing in knowledge processing system, and they greatly ease tasks of knowledge engineers in creating, updating and generally maintaining knowledge bases but also of reusing their content and creating new services. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Schmidt, Dr J Chen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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What differs? - Deep Learning for Anomaly and Out of Distribution Detection in Computer Vision (Visual AI) Applications

Anomaly detection, and the synonymous topics of novelty and out-of-distribution detection, addresses the computer vision ("visual AI") challenge of automatically identifying outliers within the scene or image based on their appearance, motion or behaviour characteristics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Unconstrained Object Understanding using Deep Learning for Computer Vision in X-ray Security Screening

X-ray security screening is widely used to maintain aviation/transport security, and its significance poses a particular interest in future automated screening systems that can be deployed for transportation and border security screening alike. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Addressing Racial Bias in Face Recognition Based on Deep Learning Enabled Computer Vision

Facial recognition is one of the most academically studied and industrially developed areas within computer vision where we readily find associated applications deployed globally. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Singapore Management University (SMU) PhD Programmes

The College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS) at SMU provides a holistic and community-based experience in postgraduate research that is based on interdisciplinary programmes, courses, events, networking and cohort-building. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Singapore PhD Programme
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Distributed Algorithms

A funded PhD studentship is available under the supervision of Peter Davies-Peck, part of the Network Engineering Science and Theory in Durham (NESTiD) group in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, UK. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Davies-Peck
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Research in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

  Research Group: data science and artificial intelligence
The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) Group (https://research.reading.ac.uk/dsai/) is seeking motivated doctoral candidates interested in developing innovative methodologies for intelligent data analysis. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Guedes
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Efficient and Robust Deep Learning based Perception for Autonomous Driving and Robotics

Today, autonomous vehicle and robotics research is a continuously evolving field and spanning all areas of AI autonomy, including perception, behaviour prediction, motion planning, explainability and safety critical AI systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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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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Formal Methods for Safe Artificial Intelligence

The School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham offers one PhD position in formal methods for safe artificial intelligence. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Giacobbe
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Neural Cellular Automata for Top-Down Engineering of Self-Organising Systems

About the Project. Self-organisation is a property of many natural systems, where local interactions among individuals give rise to patterns and behaviours at the global level—for example, flocks of birds collectively avoiding a predator, or the collective decision-making process of honey bees' nest site selection [1]. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Stovold
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Multimodal LLMs for Argument and Evidence Understanding

Supervisors. Dr Rafael Mestre, Prof Stuart E. Middleton. This project will explore how multimodal large language models (LLMs) can understand arguments across text, audio, images, and video. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Mestre
 1 July 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Post-Quantum Threshold Cryptography from Supersingular Isogenies

Quantum computers threaten much of the public-key cryptography currently used to secure digital communications, cloud services, financial transactions, and critical infrastructure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Fouotsa, Dr B Magri
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computer Science & Mathematics - Example topics include person identification using gait-based approaches, AI for clinical assessment, and applications in areas such as ophthalmology and mobility analysis.

We are seeking motivated and self-funded PhD students who are excited to work at the intersection of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and real-world impact. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr LT Topham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only