Connectionists: Technical AI Governance Doctoral Studentships at the University of Oxford - Deadline: 3 March 2026

[Sami Wymes]

Dear colleagues,

The Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (AIGI)<https://aigi.ox.ac.uk> and the University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science<https://eng.ox.ac.uk> are offering fully funded Studentships to support DPhil researchers interested in working with our programme on Technical AI Governance (TAIG). The TAIG DPhil Studentships cover tuition and a stipend, for home or overseas students, as well as providing generous allowances for each student to support travel to conferences and compute resources. Incoming DPhil researchers can pursue projects in key areas, such as:


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Compute infrastructure governance
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Privacy-preserving transparency and auditing
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Model evaluations and benchmarks
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Technical standards development
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Information security and AI system resilience
  *   Interpretability for model evaluation

The application deadline is 3 March 2026 at noon UK time, and further information on the TAIG DPhil Studentships can be found here: https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/technical-ai-governance-programme/. Questions are welcome and can be directed to sami.wymes at eng.ox.ac.uk.

All the best,
Sami
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Sami Wymes

Pronouns: they/them

Programme Manager – Technical AI Governance

Department of Engineering Science

University of Oxford


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