PhD thesis proposals 2026

(See the instructions to apply at the bottom of the page)

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

 

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Procedure 2026
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Call for applications for doctoral contracts in LAMSADE (Computer Science research center) 2025-2026

To apply, here are the steps to follow by a candidat :

1/ Find a subject from the list above, contact the thesis supervisor and obtain his/her agreement.

2/ Collect the following documents before creating a profile in the ADUM space strating from April 9th (see step 4) : 
- Cover letter from the candidate, 
- Recommendation letter from thesis supervisor,
- CV of the candidate,
- 1st year  and 2nd year of masters transcripts (for student currently in 2nd year of masters, please provide available transcripts),
- Doctoral contract form available on ADUM (see step 4),
- Complete application form for admission to 1st year thesis (available after creating your ADUM account).

3/ If your application is accepted by the thesis director, you will be asked to make an interview with a committee. Interviews will take place during May 2026 to rank the applications, which will be examined later on by the Doctoral School Council on June 9th. Please note that all documents mentionned above will be consulted by the audition committe members. 

4/ Concurrently to steps 1 to 3, applicant need to pre-register online via the ADUM platform and submit a specific application for the LAMSADE doctoral contract to the doctoral school by following the instructions and the following link: 

- https://edd.dauphine.fr/fr/les-programmes-doctoraux/informatique/futurs-doctorants.html

- https://edd.dauphine.fr/fr/le-futur-doctorant/candidature-en-1ere-annee-de-these.html