AI in Ship Design, Construction and Operation

PhD Position in Close Collaboration with the Maritime Industry

A PhD candidate will investigate how knowledge that connects ship design, construction, and operation can be represented so it is accessible to AI methods across multiple instances and lifecycle phases of a vessel. The work will be carried out in close, ongoing cooperation with the local maritime industry, grounded in real vessels, real data, and real engineering problems.

In Short, This PhD Position Aims To Investigate

• How one design, one idea of a ship, exists as many instances at once: on paper, under construction, or already at sea.
• Why the knowledge connecting design, construction, and operation stays scattered across documents and tools, out of reach of AI.
• How components, systems, and their dependencies could be represented in a way that works across all of these instances, and support AI‑assisted inference about missing information or the consequences of ch...