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DPhil Scholarship, Security of AI Systems, FLock.io Oxford
University of OxfordOxford, United Kingdom
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2026-05-12
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Description
A fully funded DPhil scholarship at the University of Oxford for home-fee students pursuing doctoral research in the security of AI systems, in partnership with FLock.io.
- Funding – covers full home-level tuition fees plus an annual stipend of at least £20,780 for 3.5 years (42 months), with a travel fund for conferences and workshops
- Research focus – projects may span theoretical and systems aspects of AI security, including data poisoning, adversarial samples, model inversion, and attacks on distributed systems or AI agents
- Supervision – conducted within the Systems Security Lab under Prof Ivan Martinovic and Dr Simon Birnbach, an internationally recognised group in cyber-physical and AI systems security
- Eligibility – applicants should have a strong computational or mathematical background (Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related); home fee status required
For informal enquiries, contact ivan.martinovic@cs.ox.ac.uk or simon.birnbach@cs.ox.ac.uk; apply by 12 May 2026 via the DPhil in Computer Science application portal, quoting reference 26-CS-IM.
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