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computer science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 893 computer science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Rebuilding trust in vaccination: a Large Epidemic Model to predict immunity gaps and power trustworthy public health communication

Can AI help rebuild trust in public health, and stop preventable diseases from coming back?. Measles is returning. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Chen, Prof AJ Jorgensen
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Stop! In the Name of Search: Decision-Theoretic Search Termination for Interactive and Conversational Information Retrieval (S3.5-COM-Stevenson)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Stevenson, Dr X Wang
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Resource-Efficient Execution of Data Centre-Grade Workloads with Lightweight Operating Systems on Emerging Capability Hardware

Modern data-centre workloads (e.g., agentic AI) demand strong security guarantees and high performance, which come today at a high resource cost. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Olivier, Dr P Petoumenos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Quantum Networking

Background / Introduction. Quantum networking aims to interconnect quantum devices through quantum channels, enabling ultra-secure communications, distributed quantum computing, and network-enhanced sensing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Pirandola
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI-Driven Insect Cognition: Computational Models for Behavior, Brain Imaging and Bio-Inspired Robotics

Understanding how the insect brain functions and generates behaviors is crucial for fields such as ecology, biodiversity conservation, agriculture, pest control, disease prevention and robotics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr O Riabinina, Dr A Atapour-Abarghouei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Scaling Generalization: Autonomous Intelligent Agents for the ARC-AGI Challenge

Introduction. You will have complete freedom to define your research direction within the broader AI landscape. from core methods to applications, and from theory to systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Banerjee
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Teaching AI How Proteins Move: Experiment-Guided AI for Predictive Molecular Science (in collaboration with Exciting Instruments Ltd.) (C3.5-MPS-Craggs)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Craggs, Prof H Lu
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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User Simulation-Grounded Automatic Conversational Depression Screening (S3.5-COM-Wang)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr X Wang, Dr NM Ma
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI4Ed: Multi-Agent Systems for Collaborative Human–AI Writing and Feedback (S3.5-COM-Yuan)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Yuan, Dr B Peng
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Deep Learning Based Machine Vision/Robotics for Space-Informed Applications

This project aims at deep learning based machine vision and/or robotics methods to facilitate space-related applications. There is a wide range of projects within this scope. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof H Shum
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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[FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship] Neuromorphic systems for low-latency and efficient multimodal processing

Modern AI systems achieve remarkable performance on tasks ranging from language modelling to computer vision. However, their large size, and significant data requirements, make them costly to train and deploy, with AI systems set to consume 3% of global energy supply by 2030. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Peres, Dr P Strycharczuk, Dr O Rhodes
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Neurosymbolic spatial reasoning: teaching language models to plan over qualitative geographic knowledge

About the project. Large language models are fluent but unreliable at spatial reasoning. Given a geographic knowledge graph, they recall isolated facts well, yet they struggle with questions that require several spatial relationships to be chained together. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Abdelmoty
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Artificial Intelligence and Multiscale Data Fusion for Infrared and Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Disease

Recent advances in chemical imaging are transforming our ability to investigate the molecular composition of complex biological systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Gardner, Prof N Lockyer, Prof HY Yin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Towards Circular AI: Critical Materials, E-waste and Circular Economy Strategies

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding rapidly, transforming sectors ranging from healthcare and manufacturing to transport, energy and scientific research. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Gallego Schmid, Dr J Apsley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Generative User Interfaces that Adapt to the Contextual Needs of Physical Activity Tracking Users

This PhD investigates how user interfaces for physical activity (PA) tracking can be generated automatically from a user's context, rather than designed once and applied to everyone. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Vigo, Dr S Harper
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)