Design Engineering PhD Scholarship 2

Design and implementation of red-teaming evaluations of Conversational Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The fast adoption of AI-powered conversational agents across many specialized domains demand to perform extensive testing before reaching end users. Conversational agents in high stakes applications such as healthcare have strong requirements for safety, privacy cultural appropriateness and value alignment. This PhD project will study methods that will guide conversational agent designers to improve and perform testing in these dimensions.

The project will help the candidate become a leader in the growing area of Conversational AI, building and evaluating agents to be used in real, high stakes contexts.

How to Apply 
Please contact Prof Rafael Calvo if you are interested in applying for this project. 

For more information on submitting a PhD application, please consult our application pages here. When you submit your application, please cite this project title in the 'how you are planning to fund your PhD' section.   

The deadline for submitting your application is 09 January 2026.