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

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Documents
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineApril 30, 2026
• ValueFully Funded
• Study LevelPhD
• SponsorMacquarie University
• City to studyNew South Wales
• School to studyMacquarie University
• Course to studyInformation Technology
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

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.

Requirements

• 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 Documents

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.

Check also:
ANU Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship 2026
University of Canberra Research Scholarships 2026

Application Deadline

How To Apply

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

Contact Professor Jia Wu

• E:[email protected]

For more information, kindly visit Macquarie University scholarship webpage.