PhD Study

EPCC offers opportunities for doctoral (PhD) study in areas related to High Performance Computing, Computational Science, Data Science, Software Engineering & Sustainability, and Parallelism.

As one of Europe's leading supercomputing centres, with a wide, varied, and interesting hardware ecosystem available, EPCC offers an unique setting for in-depth research and excellent connections into industry to provide further opportunities for our students and graduates.

PhD opportunities

EPCC offers the opportunity to study for a PhD in areas related to High Performance Computing (HPC), Computational Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, and Software Sustainability.
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PhD News

Recent updates on PhDs at EPCC.

Fortran High-Level Synthesis: reducing the barriers to accelerating HPC codes on FPGAs

Computer programs were first written in Fortran back in the 1960s, when programmers had to undertake the difficult task of generating punch cards to run codes. The method used to write programs has evolved greatly since, but Fortran is still as present as any other modern programming language. 
FPGA testbed. Computer hardware board branded "Alveo".

Quantum computing research: energy efficiency of statevector simulation at scale

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PhD research: Affective dynamic model-based machine learning for cognitive emotion recognition

Xingran Ruan, a PhD student based at EPCC, is investigating the recognition of cognitive emotions, including confusion, frustration, and boredom, with the aim of enhancing future Intelligent Tutor Systems (ITS) to provide targeted assistance. Here he describes his research.
Diagram showing four words linked by a line to form a square: Boredom, Frustration, Confusion, Engagement

Meet our PhD Students

See below for information on our community of students at EPCC (coming soon!)