Overview

Rather than working in isolation, as is usual in AI, the Decision Making for Complex Systems students at University of Cambridge will learn to develop these in a collaborative manner tied to a specific application domain. The CDT is focused on three areas, Uncertainty in complex systems, Decision-making with humans in the loop and Decision-making for ML systems. Model interpretability and explainability will be transversal to the three topics. Decision making with AI needs to be interpretable and explainable to facilitate interrogation of decision processes such that trust can be built by the human, and it is essential for understanding and meeting ethical and legal implications.

Requirements

This CDT programme requires students to complete one year of training at the University of Manchester leading to award of a Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence, followed by research for a PhD degree at either the University of Manchester or Cambridge. Applications for admission to the CDT programme are made to the University of Manchester in the first instance. Successful applicants who chose a research project at the University of Cambridge will be invited to apply for admission to this PhD.

Programme Structure

Curriculum includes:

In their first PhD year, research students will be expected to complete a series of 12 core and optional units from the Research Skills Programme. The units are ungraded and the number of contact hours varies. Attendance is recorded and a complete log is requested at the same time as the first-year report and thesis proposal.
Mandatory Research Skills Programme: in addition to the core units, all research students must select a further eight units from the selection of one- and two-hour topics throughout all years of their studies, or from classes offered by the Researcher Development Programme.
At the discretion of the supervisor and to provide additional technical background for the PhD research, students may also be allowed to audit one or more modules taken from the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science course.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months
Part-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-05-13 00:00:00

Language

English

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants for this course should have achieved a Good II.i Honours Degree.
If your degree is not from the UK, please check International Qualifications to find the equivalent in your country.
You are required to pass the Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Manchester, taken as part of the UKRI AI CDT in Decision Making in Complex Systems programme.

Tuition Fees

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42546 GBP / year

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11208 GBP / year

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Living costs

Cambridge

United Kingdom

846 - 1465 GBP / month

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