PhD position in Privacy-Preserving AI and Knowledge Graphs for Energy Digital Twins at VU Amsterdam [NL]

Applications are invited for a PhD Candidate position at at the Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence (KAI) group and the User-Centric Data Science (UCDS) group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in close collaboration with TU Delft and societal partners including the Municipality of Alkmaar and Arnhem Electricity Campus, as part of the NWO-funded KIC project FEDERATE: Fair Energy Data Environments for Renewable Autonomous Twin Empowerment.

As a PhD candidate, you will develop novel AI and semantic technologies for privacy-preserving knowledge sharing in federated energy-data environments. Your research will focus on combining knowledge graphs, ontologies, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine unlearning, and formal reasoning to enable the selective removal of sensitive information while preserving the usefulness of shared knowledge.