biography

Benjamin is a Research Associate with the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy, focusing on safeguarding frontier AI models against theft and misuse.

Alongside this role, he is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, researching AI security under the supervision of Professor Stephen Roberts and Professor Sadie Creese. His work aims to design secure and adversarially robust machine learning systems, integrating methods from information theory, model interpretability, cybersecurity, and threat modelling. He studies how AI systems can be attacked and defended in practice, with a focus on ensuring their resilience in realistic high-stakes applications.

Previously, he was a Senior Research Assistant at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science & artificial intelligence, and holds an MEng degree in Computer Science from Durham University.

For more information, see his academic webpage.