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high performance computing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 146 high performance computing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.

Earn a Ph.D. in computing from RIT. Conduct advanced research with expert faculty and explore challenges in and beyond computing. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Research Programme
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On the simulation of advanced computer networks

  Research Group: University of Bristol High Performance Computing Group
The High Performance Computing (HPC) services of today provide the computational density to perform groundbreaking science. These services facilitate the distribution of a problem space across numerous compute units, yielding performance improvements through parallelising the execution of a workload. Read more
 Supervisor: Mr JJ Jones
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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High-performance computational techniques and numerical methods for the electromagnetic simulation of semiconductor and communications devices

This PhD project is at the intersection of electromagnetism, numerical methods, and high-performance parallel computing, with application towards the design and optimisation of integrated circuits, antennas, and electromagnetic metasurfaces. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S S Sharma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Sustainable Human Like Adaptation: Auto Adaptive Machine Learning for Evolving Real World Systems

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems
OPEN FOR UK AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND STUDENTS ONLY. SPEAR Research Programme. Fully Funded PhD Opportunities. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G Prasad, Prof L McDaid
 19 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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From Anatomy to Risk: Fast Digital Twins for LAA Thrombosis Risk in Atrial Fibrillation

PhD project description. Atrial fibrillation (AF) significantly increases the risk of stroke, yet current risk scores such as CHA₂DS₂ VASc rely solely on comorbidities and demographics, and ignore patient specific LAA anatomy and haemodynamics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G.M.B Bosi
 29 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Context-aware workload optimisation in cloud ecosystems: a framework for sustainable and low-impact AI processing

The increasing demand for cloud computing to support artificial intelligence (AI), particularly its applications in big data processing, has driven significant advancements but has also introduced notable environmental challenges due to the energy-intensive nature of these operations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Kumarapeli
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Plasma photonics optical devices for next-generation high power lasers and radiation sources

Optical elements of next generation exawatt to zettawatt lasers will require new optical elements to manipulate their intense laser pulses. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D Jaroszynski, Dr BE Ersfeld
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Giant planet atmospheric modelling

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Young, Dr N Rubido
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Exploring Venus’ atmosphere using data assimilation

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Young, Dr G Sandip
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Autonomous technologies in structural health monitoring for sustainable lightweight structures

Description of Project. Join our diverse and inclusive team to transform the future of aviation as part of the UK’s EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Net Zero Aviation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Kundu, Dr C A Featherston
 19 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computational Modelling of Nuclear Materials (Ref: CM/PG-SF1/2026)

An exciting self-funded PhD opportunity to join the Advanced Materials Modelling (AMM) Group at Loughborough. Pressurisation, corrosion and other factors may pose a threat to the safety and integrity of nuclear material packages in long term storage. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Goddard, Prof R Smith, Dr K Jolley
 1 April 2027  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Delivering efficient buildings, efficiently (Ref: ABCE-EBE-26)

Become a critical actor for change to deliver high performing buildings for future generations. The construction sector turns over more than 10trillion USD worldwide, and employees 10% of the global working population. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof CG Gorse
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing magnonic building blocks for neuromorphic computing

This PhD project will develop nanoscale devices which use magnons (collective excitations in magnetic order) as information carriers for ultra-efficient, compact, brain-inspired computing. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr W Griggs
 2 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Numerical simulation of Deflagration, Detonation and DDT in large scale inhomogeneous reactive mixtures

Demand for energy and petrochemical products has been on the raise in recent decades leading to huge production, transportation and storage infrastructures all around the world. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Heidari
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Leveraging AI hardware for accelerating HPC applications (in collaboration with AWE)

This aim of this research will be to explore leveraging the wide range of AI-focussed accelerator architectures for traditional, scientific computing, HPC applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Brown
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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