PhD students and Visiting PhD students at ELLIS Institute Tübingen & MPI-IS

Apply by 27/07/26
Career Stage: PhD
Institute Tübingen
Tübingen

The COMPASS research group (COoperative Machine intelligence for People-Aligned Safe Systems
, led by Sahar Abdelnabi) at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is hiring 3-4 PhD students, and also visiting PhD students for funded 3-6 months stays.

Research areas broadly span the safety, security, and trustworthiness of AI agents including:
• Sycophancy, decision-making, and societal implications of AI
• Autonomous agents and memory
• Multi-agent safety, security, and privacy
• Training dynamics of LLMs
• AI control and oversight
• AI for science

Requirements:

  • Students with a Master's degree and demonstrated research experience.
  • Visiting PhD students with a strong computer science background and research experience.

If you're interested, please fill out the Google form on this website: https://s-abdelnabi.github.io/

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