Thesis opportunities
16 open positions in 8 countries
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ETH Zürich · Featured
Bayesian optimisation for sample-efficient robot learning
Develop and evaluate Bayesian optimisation strategies to tune robot controllers with as few real-world trials as possible.
Master'sArtificial IntelligenceStipendZürich, Switzerland6 months
Posted
4 days ago
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Life-cycle assessment of lignin-derived carbon fibres
Perform a cradle-to-gate LCA comparing lignin-based carbon fibre with PAN-based fibre for automotive composites.
Master'sEnvironmental ScienceFunding not statedStockholm, Sweden5 months
Posted
6 days ago
University of Tokyo
Low-cost ocean temperature sensors with LoRaWAN telemetry
Design, build and deploy a network of affordable sea-surface temperature sensors reporting over LoRaWAN.
Bachelor's · Master'sElectrical EngineeringTravel grantTokyo, Japan4 months
Posted
8 days ago
ETH Zürich
Uncertainty calibration in deep ensembles for medical imaging
Study how well deep ensembles and MC dropout quantify uncertainty on out-of-distribution chest X-rays, and propose a recalibration method.
Master's · PhDArtificial IntelligenceFunding not statedZürich, Switzerland6 months
Posted
11 days ago
Politecnico di Milano
Techno-economic optimisation of second-life EV batteries for grid storage
Build an optimisation model that sizes and dispatches repurposed EV batteries for frequency regulation in the Italian grid.
Master'sEnergyFunding not statedMilan, Italy6 months
Posted
13 days ago
University of Edinburgh
Speech recognition for low-resource Celtic languages
Adapt self-supervised speech models to Scottish Gaelic and Irish with minimal labelled data.
Master'sLinguisticsFunding not statedEdinburgh, United Kingdom6 monthsHybrid
Posted
15 days ago
Politecnico di Milano · Featured
Grid-forming inverter control for weak grids
Design and simulate grid-forming control for PV inverters connected to weak, low-inertia distribution grids.
Master's · PhDElectrical EngineeringStipendMilan, Italy6 months
Posted
20 days ago
University of Edinburgh · Featured
Evaluating LLM translation quality for African languages
Build human-aligned evaluation sets and metrics for machine translation into Yoruba, Hausa and Swahili.
Master'sComputer ScienceStipend · RemoteEdinburgh, United Kingdom5 months
Posted
22 days ago
Delft University of Technology · Featured
Aeroelastic tailoring of 20 MW offshore wind turbine blades
Explore bend-twist coupling in composite blades to reduce fatigue loads on next-generation offshore turbines using our in-house aeroelastic code.
Master'sMechanical EngineeringFunding not statedDelft, Netherlands8 months
Posted
25 days ago
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · Featured
Causal representation learning from multi-site clinical data
Learn representations that are invariant to hospital-specific confounders and improve out-of-distribution prediction of patient outcomes.
Master's · PhDArtificial IntelligenceSalaryTübingen, Germany6 months
Posted
27 days ago
National University of Singapore
Gut-on-a-chip model for studying microbiome–drug interactions
Develop a microfluidic gut model with co-cultured bacteria to screen how the microbiome alters drug metabolism.
Master's · PhDBiomedical EngineeringScholarshipSingapore, Singapore8 months
Posted
29 days ago
Delft University of Technology
Wake steering control strategies for floating wind farms
Quantify the benefit of yaw-based wake steering when turbines float and move, using high-fidelity simulations.
Bachelor's · Master'sEnergyTravel grantDelft, Netherlands5 monthsHybrid
Posted
1 month ago