PhD thesis proposals 2026 - PhD research project contracts

Available thesis topics:

- Translating preference statements expressed in natural language to formal preference languages; applications to collective decision making

Application procedure: 
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Contact the supervisors for the topic that interests you; if they support your application, submit an application before the deadline stated in the call for applications; the supervisors will inform you of the documents required.

 

PhD thesis proposals 2026 - PhD ministry of higher education and research contracts

Available thesis topics :

- Proportional Representation with Ranked Preferences

- Preferences and Value Alignment in AI

- Stable Matching with Incomplete Preferences

- Social choice for Sustainability

- Elaboration of Transparent, Fair and Sustainable Interspecies Habitability Composite Indicators

- Algorithmic and Structural Properties of box-TDI Polyhedra

- Box-perfect graphs

- Algorithmic Game Theory and Computational Social Choice with Agent Hierarchies

- From adversarial examples to LLM jailbreaks: designing langage models that are adversarially robust

- Performative Learning for long-term Trustworthy Machine Learning

- A Study of the Implicit Bias in Deep Learning through a Higher-Order Analysis of the Loss

- Apprentissage fédéré non-IID : méthodes d’optimisation pour une sélection efficace des clients

- Reconceptualizing Provenance for Reproducibility in Agentic AI Scientific Workflows

 

Application procedure 2026
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Call for applications – LAMSADE PhD contracts (2026–2029)

Steps to be followed by applicants: 

1/ Choosing a thesis subject
The applicant must: choose a thesis subject from the proposed list, contact the relevant thesis supervisors, and obtain their prior approval.

2/ Compiling the application
The application must include the following documents:
- Cover letter from the candidate, 
- a letter of support (recommendation) from the thesis supervisor,
- a CV,
-transcripts from the first and second years of the Master’s programme (for those currently in their second year, provide the available transcripts),
-the thesis subject (or project),
-the doctoral contract form (available on ADUM, see step 3),
-the completed application form (or dossier) for admission to the first year of the PhD programme (accessible after creating an ADUM account).

3/ Submission of the application via ADUM and selection
If the application is approved by the supervisors, the candidate must:

3.a/ Submission of the application
- submit an application online via the ADUM platform (platform opens: 9 April 2026)
- send an application for the LAMSADE doctoral contract, compiled into a single PDF file, to both the Doctoral School secretariat and the LAMSADE head team at the following addresses: <edsdose@dauphine.psl.eu>, <direction@lamsade.dauphine.fr>
Email subject : Candidature contrat doctoral – Last Name First Name – Spécialité / Informatique
Submission deadline: 13 May 2026 at 12 noon
Further information (doctoral school links, ADUM link): 
edd.dauphine.fr/fr/les-programmes-doctoraux/informatique/futurs-doctorants.html
ecole-doctorale.dauphine.psl.eu/candidature/1ere-annee-de-these
https://adum.fr/candidature/initcpt.pl

3.b/ Interviews
Candidates will be interviewed by a committee on 20 May 2026. Following the interviews, a ranking will be drawn up and forwarded to the doctoral school. 
Please note that all the documents mentioned above will be examined by the committee members in order to rank the applications.

3.c/ Final approval
The final approval of the applications and their ranking will take place at the meeting of the SDOSE Doctoral School Council on 9 June 2026.