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
ICML 2026
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
May 2026 - present
June 2021 - 2024
WORK EXPERIENCE
Lead AI Security Advisor, 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