PhD position on Causal Machine Learning for Industrial Root Cause Analysis

Academic Positions

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Cdi
Posted June 03, 2026

Job Description

The M-Group at KU Leuven Bruges Campus is an interdisciplinary research team focusing on intelligent and dependable mechatronic systems, combining research expertise from the departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. One of the key research tracks focusses on the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in real-world industrial settings on the one hand. The objective of the proposed PhD positions is to investigate how Causal Machine Learning techniques can be leveraged for root cause analysis in multimodal data originating from complex industrial machines. The successful candidate will be offered to opportunity to pursue a PhD in Computer Science at KU Leuven, and will also be embedded within the Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI) lab (), which pursues excellence in an explicit and synergistic combination of fundamental and applied research on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Doctoral tra...