Joss Wright

Joss Wright is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He co-directs the Oxford EPSRC Cybersecurity Doctoral Training Centre and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Wildlife Trade, focusing on computational approaches to social science questions about information control and privacy.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science from the University of York (research on anonymous communication systems), postdoctoral work at the University of Siegen (cloud computing security).

His research spans internet censorship, privacy-enhancing technologies, and cyber-enabled crime (notably the online illegal wildlife trade). He bridges technical analyses of security systems with their social and political implications, advising the European Commission and UK Parliamentary Science Committee on digital policy. Recent work includes machine learning applications to detect patent filing trends related to wildlife trade and analyzing Chinese smart city surveillance for human rights risks. He has contributed to media outlets like the Guardian and New Scientist.

Notable projects include the Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade and studies on discriminatory effects of internet filtering. He supervises students like William Lugoloobi (DPhil in Social Data Science) and former advisee Samantha Bradshaw (now Assistant Professor at American University).