PhD Study
The University of Sheffield offers various PhD programmes with different opportunities to study Artificial Intelligence. Listed below are PhDs that are supervised by staff from the Centre for Machine Intelligence.
CMI PhD opportunities
The below PhDs are supervised by staff from the Centre for Machine Intelligence:
Neurosymbolic World Models for Robotic Manipulation
A fully funded PhD position is available at the University of Sheffield on Neurosymbolic World Models for Robotic Manipulation, supervised by Dr Marco Valentino and Dr Amir Ghalamzan. The project will combine multimodal foundation models with formal reasoning and predictive models of physical interaction, enabling robots to anticipate failures and recover autonomously during contact-rich manipulation. Funding covers full tuition fees, a UKRI stipend (currently £21,805 per year) and a research support grant for 3.5 years, starting October 2027. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact the supervisors before applying. Full details are on the FindAPhD project page.
Deadline: 17:00 GMT, 13 January 2027.