Macquarie University Generative Graph Modelling for Anomaly Detection PhD Scholarship 2026

This scholarship offers an excellent opportunity to develop an international research profile and contribute to impactful, cutting-edge work at the forefront of graph anomaly detection. Macquarie University is offering two fully funded international PhD scholarships to join our exciting research project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC): “Generative Graph Modelling for Anomaly Detection.”

The project aims to develop novel generative approaches for modelling complex graph-structured data and detecting rare, evolving anomalies. The research is expected to produce high-quality outcomes with strong theoretical and empirical contributions, targeting leading venues in data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence, such as:

• KDD
• ICDM
• WWW
• IJCAI
• AAAI
• ICLR
• NeurIPS
• EMNLP
• ACL
• TKDE
• TNNLS
• TPAMI.

• Table of Content
• About Macquarie University
• Macquarie University PhD Scholarship
• Aim and Benefits of Macquarie University PhD Scholarship
• Macquarie University PhD Scholarship Courses
• Requirements for Macquarie University PhD Scholarship Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

Macquarie University PhD Scholarship

Aim and Benefits of Macquarie University PhD Scholarship

The scholarship comprises:

• a tuition fee offset/scholarship
• a living allowance stipend.

The value of each stipend scholarship is $39,700 per annum (full time, indexed) for three years.

Macquarie University PhD Scholarship Courses

• Information Technology

Requirements for Macquarie University PhD Scholarship Qualification

• This scholarship is available to eligible candidates to undertake a direct entry three-year PhD program.
• Self-motivated and research-oriented candidates with:
  • strong foundations in graph-based mining and learning
  • solid mathematical training
  • hands-on research experience.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Before submitting your application, submit an expression of interest (EOI) to Professor Jia Wu at [email protected].

Your EOI should include:

• a detailed CV, including a full educational background and a complete list of publications
• your official Master’s academic transcript
• your Master’s thesis report and evaluation result/grade
• your official English language test results. See English language admission requirements.

Contact Professor Jia Wu

• E:[email protected]

For more information, kindly visit Macquarie University scholarship webpage.