News

[17/03/25] Super excited to receive a generous grant on the Foundations of Multi-Agent Security by the Foresight Institute

[17/02/25] Honoured to be invited to give the opening keynote on Multi-Agent Security at the Schmidt Futures x Palo Alto Networks x RAND Corporation Agentic Security Convening (Santa Clara, CA)

[16/02/25] Honoured to serve as a Lead Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’s flagship Cluster of Excellence and Emmy Noether grant programs

[15/02/25] Congratulations to my students Julia Karbing and Sumeet Motwani for winning ultra-competitive Cooperative AI Foundation Ph.D. Fellowships (ca. 8% acceptance rate)

[17/08/24] I gave expert testimony on AI and disinformation live in-studio on BBC News - AI Decoded in front of 2-5 million viewers!

[17/08/24] Super excited to receive a generous grant on AI and National Security by Schmidt Futures Virtual Institute on Grand Strategy and AI

[17/08/24] Overjoyed to receive an OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grant with my student Constantin Venhoff (acceptance rate <2%)

[16/01/24] Many congratulations to DPhil student Tim Franzmeyer for winning a Spotlight at ICLR'2024 for our project Illusory Attacks!

[21/12/23] My Master’s student Linas Nasvytis’ work on Out-of-Distribution Dynamics Detection for Reinforcement Learning has been accepted for an Oral Presentation at AAMAS 2024. Congratulations, Linas!

[1/09/23] My work on Perfectly Secure Steganography (with Sam Sokota) is featured on Bruce Schneier’s Security Blog!

[31/08/23] My work on Perfectly Secure Steganography (with Sam Sokota) is featured in Scientific American (both print and online)!

[18/05/23] My work on Perfectly Secure Steganography (with Sam Sokota) is featured on the cover page of Quanta Magazine!

[19/02/23] I was a Discussant on “Evading the Polycrisis: World Wars, Climate Change, Biosecurity, and the Hope of International Institutions” at 2023 Munich Security Conference Responsible Leaders Hub (invited by BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation Young Leaders Program and ISF) jointly with Ravi Agrawal (Chief Editor at Foreign Policy), Hina Rabbani Khar (Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Pakistan), and Ngaire Woods (Dean of the Blavatnik School, Oxford).

[19/01/17] Just been informed that I was shortlisted (top 5/135 applicants) for an Associate Professorship with the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford!