Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Sustainable Lifelong Robot Learning

Fully funded PhD studentship available at the University of Southampton for research in sustainable lifelong robot learning. Apply by 31 August 2025.

A PhD studentship is available at the University of Southampton to develop a sustainable, lifelong on-device robot learning system.

The project, titled ‘Resource-efficient lifelong robot learning,’ aims to address the challenge of equipping robots with the ability to learn a growing set of tasks over their operational lifetime.

• Key challenges include catastrophic forgetting and the stability-plasticity dilemma.
• Recent advancements in lifelong and continual learning have proposed strategies such as regularization, dynamic growth, and experience replay.
• The project will focus on improving the trade-off between stability and plasticity while enhancing resource efficiency.

For more information and application details, visit University of Southampton project page.

To apply, send your pre-application package to burhan.hafez@soton.ac.uk by 31 August 2025.

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