William Lugoloobi is a Rhodes Scholar and DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute, where his research sits at the intersection of AI safety, mechanistic interpretability, and agentic systems. Supervised by Joss Wright and Chris Russell, his work addresses a deceptively simple question: can we predict when an AI system will fail? And if so, can we adaptively build more reliable ones?
He holds a BSc from Northwestern University and an MSc from the Oxford Internet Institute, where his dissertation explored using multimodal AI for content analysis of newspaper layouts.
Multimodal AI, Computer Vision, Internet Censorship, LLMs.
22 April 2026
OII researchers and DPhil students will attend the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations in Rio de Janeiro from 23–27 April 2026.
Associate Professor
Joss Wright's research interests lie in information controls, privacy-enhancing technologies, and cyber-enabled crime. His current research focuses on measuring internet censorship, and uncovering the online illegal wildlife trade.
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government & Policy.
Chris Russell is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government and Policy. Dr Russell’s work lies at the intersection of computer vision and responsible AI.
