Important dates

4 September 2024
Applications open
3 December 2024
Applications close
2 January 2025
Research proposals due
12 February 2025
Notifications sent
1 October 2025
Course starts

Supervisors

We accept students to the CASCADE Centre across a broad range of topics in and aligned with Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design. The main supervisors for students in the Centre are detailed below, but feel free to reach out to others in the Department if your interests overlap with theirs and will fit with CASCADE too.

Rika Antonova

reinforcement learning algorithms, active learning & exploration, robotics

Tobias Grosser

compilation, language design, effective performance programming

Timothy Jones

computer architecture, compilation, binary modiļ¬cation, parallelism

Nicholas Lane

design, architecture and algorithms of machine-learning systems

Andrew Moore

networking, systems understanding, performance measurement

Simon Moore

computer architecture, hardware security

Robert Mullins

machine learning, accelerators, processors, open-source hardware

Prakash Murali

quantum architecture, resource estimation and compilation

Peter Sewell

rigorous semantics applied to production and research systems

Robert Watson

security, computer architecture, operating systems, compilers