Are you passionate about improving the design and development of complex high-tech systems through intelligent tools and collaboration? We offer a challenging PhD position in the Systems Engineering and Multidisciplinary Design (SEMD) group at the Department of Design, Production and Management.

Failure Analysis and Risk Assessment (FARA) play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, safety, and performance of complex systems. However, current industrial practices, such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), are time-consuming, rely heavily on scarce expert knowledge, and struggle to cope with uncertainty, large data volumes, and increasing system complexity.

At the same time, recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer opportunities to support engineers in failure analysis, risk assessment and decision-making. Yet, these technologies are not yet sufficiently reliable, integrated, or tailored for safety-critical engineering applications.

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