After being postponed multiple times by the pandemic, the final Creativiety Sandpit for the final HiPEDS CDT cohort took place in late September 2021. The cohort was joined by students from the KCL CDT in Smart Medical Imaging, as well as other students from Imperial’s Physics, Computing, Electrical Engineering, and Earth Science and Engineering Departments…. Read more »
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Accelerating machine learning with FPGAs
Over the past 18 months, HiPEDS has been working in partnership with dunnhumby to conduct research into re-programmable hardware. The result is the discovery of a unique approach detailed in this article.
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Winner
Congratulations go to our student Miguel Cacho Soblechero on winning the Qualcomm innovation fellowship. Miguel was one of five winners, giving his presentation on “Sense-aware System-on-Chip for ISFET diagnostic platforms”.
University Challenge Champion!
The 2020 University Challenge competition was won by the Imperial team, including HiPEDS’ Connor McMeel, who got 100% of his starter questions correct. The team got to the final by the short path – no defeats. The team won against Brasenose College – Oxford, Trinity College – Cambridge, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Durham University,… Read more »
Creativity Sandpit with Cambridge and Nottingham
Imperial HiPEDS, Cambridge Sensor, Nottingham Horizon CDTs April 30th – May 2nd 2019 Chicheley Hall, Milton Keynes In early May 28 PhD students from three CDTS based at Imperial, Cambridge and Nottingham participated in a two-day creativity sandpit, spread across three days. We were very fortunate to welcome to the event industry engineers who each… Read more »
Miten Mistry to display poster at the House of Commons
HiPEDS PhD student Miten Mistry has been 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. STEM for BRITAIN is a… Read more »
Johannes Wiebe wins second place presentation prize at PSE@ResearchDayUK
First year PhD student Johannes Wiebe recently presented at PSE@ResearchDayUK and won 2nd place presentation prize. The PSE@ResearchDayUK is a 1-day annual meeting for process systems engineering researchers in the UK. Typically, Third and fourth year PhD students are invited to submit an abstract and (if accepted) speak at the conference. So this is a… Read more »
HiPEDS Code of Conduct
Workshop in Ethics and Responsibility in Research and Innovation In a half-day workshop members of the 2017, 2016 and 2015 cohorts of the Centre for Doctoral Training in High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems (HiPEDS) discussed questions and issues around societal and ethical implications of research in engineering disciplines. The group of PhD students reflected… Read more »
Creativity Sandpit with Cambridge and Warwick
Imperial HiPEDS, Cambridge Sensor, Warwick Urban Science May 15th – 17th 2018 Eastpark Conference Centre, Bracknell In beautiful weather mid-May 28 PhD students from three CDTS based at Imperial, Cambridge and Warwick participated in a two-day creativity sandpit, spread across three days. We were very fortunate to welcome to the event industry engineers who each… Read more »
Nicolas Moser’s Three Minute Thesis
Wednesday 5th April saw the finals of the Imperial 3 minute thesis competition. PhD students nominated from departments across the College were invited to the final competition. The format is that each student is briefly introduced by the chair person. They then have up to 3 minutes to deliver a pitch about their research. They… Read more »
