EDUCATION
PhD in Computer Science, University of Cambridge
- Thesis: "Technical and societal implications of machine learning security"
- Supervised by Professor Robert Mullins and the late Professor Ross Anderson
- Supported by the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme
2022-2025
MSc in Advanced Computer Science, University of Oxford
- Grade: Distinction
- Dissertation: "Portable, Low-Cost, and Low-Power mmWave Radar Imaging for Concealed Weapon Detection" supervised by Professor Kasper Rasmussen; IP patented and registered with Oxford University Innovation Limited
2021-2022
BA (Hons) in Computer Science, University of Cambridge
- Grade: Class I (ranking 8/120)
- Dissertation: "Susceptibility of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning to Adversarial Examples" supervised by Dr Ilia Shumailov and Dr Dmitry Kazhdan
2018-2021
A-levels, St Paul’s School, Barnes
- A*A*A*A* – Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics
2016-2018
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Tiered Anonymity on Social-Media Platforms as a Countermeasure against Deepfakes and LLM-Driven Mass Misinformation
David Khachaturov, Roxanne Schnyder, Robert Mullins
David Khachaturov, Roxanne Schnyder, Robert Mullins
In-review
Adversarial Suffix Filtering: a Defense Pipeline for LLMs
David Khachaturov, Robert Mullins
David Khachaturov, Robert Mullins
Pre-print
Controllable and explainable personality sliders for LLMs at inference time
Florian Hoppe, David Khachaturov, Robert Mullins, Mark Huasong Meng
Florian Hoppe, David Khachaturov, Robert Mullins, Mark Huasong Meng
In-review
Markpainting: Adversarial Machine Learning meets Inpainting
David Khachaturov, Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao, Nicolas Papernot, Ross Anderson
David Khachaturov, Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao, Nicolas Papernot, Ross Anderson
ICML 2021
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
October 2025 - present
June 2021 - 2024
WORK EXPERIENCE
Lead AI Security Researcher, FrontierOne
- Sovereign AI
March 2026 - present
Computer Science Tripos Supervisor, University of Cambridge
- Taught courses: Machine Learning and Real-world Data; Software and Security Engineering; Data Science; Economics, Law and Ethics; Security; Computer Networking; Bioinformatics; Information Theory
- 150 groups, 500 hours. Further details on my department page
October 2021 - present
Software Architect at Qeios
- Contract work for building cool new systems
August 2025 - March 2026
Machine Learning Researcher at OpenAI
- Contract ML research work
January - May 2025
Research Intern at Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Supervised by Professor Ross Anderson and Dr Ilia Shumailov
June – September 2021
Intern at Seamless Capital
December 2020
Software Development Intern at IMC Trading
- Return offer received
June – August 2020
Machine Learning Intern at Speechmatics
- Research and development of machine learning for NLP in Pytorch and Tensorflow
June – September 2019
AWARDS & INTERESTS
- Languages: native-level Russian and English
- Was part of re-invigorating the Cambridge Caledonian Society in 2023-25, including conducting history research and creating the new website
- CyberCenturion, national UK cyber-security competition - 2018 runner-ups, 2017 winners
- BAFTA’s Young Game Designer 2017 finalists
- Schools Aerospace Challenge 2017 runner-ups
- Golf: Since 2013, National Maltese Junior Champion 2016