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Accelerating machine learning with FPGAs

June 16 2020

HiPEDS has been working in partnership with dunnhumby to conduct research into re-programmable hardware, which has resulted in the discovery of a unique approach

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Winner

22 May 2020

Miguel Cacho Soblechero was one of five winners of the Qualcomm innovation fellowship, giving his presentation on “Sense-aware System-on-Chip for ISFET diagnostic platforms”.

2019 STEM for Britain exhibition at the House of Commons

5 February 2019

Miten Mistry was selected to display a poster at the House of Commons, as part of the STEM for BRITAIN 2019 poster competition for early-career researchers. Miten’s research, joint with BASF, Dr Ruth Misener and Dr Dimitris Letsios integrates data-driven models into larger decision making problems.

Careers Service – Support for PhDs

Date: 22 June 2023
Venue: Online

Richard Carruthers of Imperial's Careers Service delivered a short presentation followed by Q&A.

The Careers Service supports all students from first year undergraduates to end stage PhDs, and the offer extends to three years beyond graduation. The Careers Service also work closely with the Graduate School and the Postdoc and Fellows Development Centre in the delivery of group and one-to-one careers support. Learn more about the services available and have your questions answered by Richard Carruthers, Deputy Director, Careers Service. We plan to deliver a short presentation followed by Q&A. In advance of the session there’s a short poll (three questions) that will help us tailor the delivery.

Slides

Secrets of Industry

Date: 16 December 2022
Venue: Huxley 145 & Online

HiPEDS hosted a panel discussion on how to have a successful career in industry. The panelists were from Arm, DeepMind, Intel, Microsoft Research, Samsung AI, and UBS.

Careers in Alternative Modelling at Bank of America

Date: 5 April 2022
Time: 16.00-17.00
Venue: Online

Speakers
Ari Datta: Head of the Alternative Modelling and Quantitative Services (AMG-QS) function in Global Risk Analytics (GRA)
Jodie Humphreys: Simulation Modelling Program Lead within the Alternative Modelling Group (AMG)
Sarah-Beth Amos: Assistant Vice President within Global Risk Analytics (GRA)

We present an overview of the activities of the Alternative Modelling and Quantitative Services function in Bank of Americas’ Global Risk Analytics group, including the business areas covered and the range of modelling approaches used. We also discuss career development within GRA and potential opportunities for PhD graduates within the group.

Parallel Automatic Differentiation

Date: 13 May 2022
Time: 11.00-12.00
Venue: Huxley 145 & Online

Speaker
William Moses: Ph.D. Candidate at MIT

Automatic differentiation (AD) is key to training neural networks, Bayesian inference, and scientific computing. Applying these techniques requires rewriting code in a specific machine learning framework or manually providing derivatives. This talk presents Enzyme, a high-performance automatic differentiation compiler plugin for the low-level virtual machine (LLVM) compiler capable of synthesizing gradients of programs expressed in the LLVM intermediate representation (IR). Enzyme differentiates programs in any language whose compiler targets LLVM, including C/C++, Fortran, Julia, Rust, Swift, etc., thereby providing native AD capabilities in these languages with state-of-the-art performance.

HiPEDS Research Centre Launch

Date: 27 May 2022
Time: 10.00-12.00
Venue: Online

Speakers
Wayne Luk: Director of the HiPEDS CDT
Industrial Supervisor: Chris Brooks, dunnhumby
Industrial Supervisor: Paolo Costa, Microsoft
HiPEDS PhD graduate: Ira Ktena, DeepMind
HiPEDS PhD graduate: Nick Moser, ProtonDx

The launch of the HiPEDS Research Centre as it successfully transitions from the CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training) and reflects on the breadth of research topics across the achievements of 70+ students. The launch event builds on the research momentum of the CDT and the rich network of industrial collaborations.

Secrets of Startups

Date: 8 September 2022
Time: 12.00-13.00
Venue: Online

HiPEDS hosted an online panel on start-up companies. The panel consisted of four speakers with start-up experience have agreed to take part: Ally Donaldson, Andy Davison, Esther Rodriguez-Villegas, and Nick Moser.

Contact us

For general enquiries on how to work with the HiPEDS Centre, please get in touch with the Director of the HiPEDS Research Centre, Professor Wayne Luk

w.luk@imperial.ac.uk