We have an exciting digital health PhD studentship available (starting Oct 2027) for application under the GW4BioMed3 scheme, at the Department of Computer Science @ University of Exeter and Exeter Medical School.

AI scientists for understanding dementia modifiable risk factors - https://gw4biomed.ac.uk/ai-scientists-for-understanding-dementia-modifiable-...

Summary: Early dementia prediction is an urgent problem to improve the clinical pathway for individuals who are at risk of dementia due to well established risks such as cognitive decline, lifestyle, medical or genetic factors. This project aims to design an AI system that integrates scientific knowledge for early dementia modelling, based on large language models and causal inference. The project has two stages: first, to construct a causal knowledge graph from scientific papers and cognitive test questionnaire data, and second, to integrate the graph with transformer-based large language models and causal learning. This offers an explainable understanding of personalised risk factors. (Detailed summary available to download at the link above)

We welcome applications and will be happy to meet with candidates after shortlisting and before interview.

Applications close on Wednesday 21st October 2026.