PhD
PhD scholarships in trustworthy AI and applied cryptography
Attacks and defences for machine learning, jailbreak and injection attacks on LLMs, and privacy-preserving computation. Email a CV, transcript and English test result.
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PhD
PhD scholarships in LLM and AI agent security
Security of LLM agents and their skill and tool ecosystems, prompt injection and jailbreak defences, and AI-assisted penetration and software testing. Strong programming skills expected.
PhD
PhD scholarships in AI security for energy systems, adversarial ML and AI watermarking
Adversarial machine learning, AI watermarking and content authenticity, and AI security for distributed energy assets, with links to funded industry projects. Email a CV and transcript.
PhD
PhD scholarships in cryptography and post-quantum protocols
Lattice-based cryptography, searchable and functional encryption, anonymous credentials and secure protocols for distributed and AI-enabled systems. A strong mathematics background is expected.
PhD
PhD scholarships in security for AI and trustworthy AI systems
Privacy-preserving technologies for AI security, trustworthy graph learning, machine unlearning, LLM watermarking, and the interplay between robustness, explainability, privacy and fairness.
PhD
PhD scholarships in trustworthy AI and privacy-preserving computation
Adversarial, backdoor, poisoning and privacy attacks and defences in federated learning, differential privacy, and privacy analysis of deployed applications.
Honours and capstone
Honours, Masters and capstone projects in secure AI and content authenticity
Thesis and capstone projects on secure AI for energy systems, watermark verification for AI-generated content and AI agent security tooling. Open to Griffith students.
Visiting
Visiting scholars and visiting PhD students
RISE members host China Scholarship Council visiting scholars and visiting PhD students, typically for six to twelve months, on a topic aligned with one of the four layers.
PhD and MPhil
Each candidate has a principal supervisor from RISE and usually a second supervisor from another layer, so projects cross the framework. To apply, email the member whose work best matches your interests with:
- a CV with your degrees, results and any publications;
- academic transcripts (a GPA above 80 out of 100 is typical for scholarship success);
- an English test result, if English is not your first language;
- a one-page statement of the problem you want to work on and why it fits RISE;
- links to code, papers or a thesis you are proud of.
Scholarships
- GUPRS Griffith University Postgraduate Research Scholarship, three rounds a year; the August round accepts international applicants.
- GUIPRS Griffith University International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, a tuition scholarship usually paired with GUPRS.
- CSC–Griffith China Scholarship Council and Griffith joint funding; the Griffith stage normally opens in November.
- AUHEPS Australian University Honours Entry Postgraduate Research Scholarship for recent Griffith honours graduates.
- Industry PhD Griffith Industry PhD and National Industry PhD Program places co-designed with partners, including CSIRO.
Postdocs and fellows
Research fellow positions are advertised on the Griffith careers site when funded projects open. If you have an externally funded fellowship idea that fits a RISE layer, contact the relevant member well before the scheme deadline so we can develop it together.
Visiting researchers
RISE members host visiting academics, visiting PhD students and China Scholarship Council scholars, typically for six to twelve months. Email your proposed host with a CV, a short plan for the visit and your funding arrangement.
Honours and capstone
Griffith students can complete honours theses, Masters research projects and capstone projects with RISE members, often linked to funded work on secure AI for energy systems, content authenticity, agent security tooling and applied cryptography. Projects are listed each trimester, and you are welcome to propose your own.
Industry and government
RISE co-designs research with partners and turns it into deployable methods and guidance. We evaluate the security of software, infrastructure and AI-enabled systems, build demonstrators, and co-supervise industry PhD candidates on your problems.
- Adversarial evaluation and red-teaming of AI models, agents and software.
- Privacy-preserving analytics and secure computation across organisations.
- Cryptographic and post-quantum protocol design and review.
- Supply-chain, provenance and content-authenticity assurance.
- Joint grant proposals, industry PhDs and student projects.