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Cambridge Internship: Novel Light Source Design

Posted: May 14, 2026

Location: Cambridge, UK

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Hardware and devices, Systems and networking

The Future AI Infrastructure team at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) is pioneering scalable, energy-efficient optical technologies to redefine the future of data centre infrastructure. We’re looking for a talented, curious and motivated PhD student to…

Publication

423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s GMI Bi-Directional HCF Transmission

Jiaqian Yang, Romulo Aparecido, E. Sillekens, R. Sohanpal, Mindaugas Jarmolovivcius, Zelin Gan, Yang Hong, M. Kamalian-Kopae, Abdallah M. Ali, S. B. Gorajoobi, Ruben S. Lu'is, D. Orsuti, A. Donodin, Vitaly Mikhailov, Jiawei Luo, David J. DiGiovanni, N. Fontaine, L. Dallachiesa, Mikael Mazur, R. Ryf, Haoshuo Chen, David T. Neilson, Ian Phillips, W. Forysiak, S. Turitsyn, H. Furukawa, Jamie Gaudette, David J. Richardson, B. Puttnam, R. Killey, P. Bayvel

May 2026

Publication

Cross-Layer Energy Analysis of Multimodal Training on Grace Hopper Superchips

Mahmoud Ahmed, Sameh Abdulah, Olatunji Ruwase, Sam Ade Jacobs, Mathis Bode, Mohamed Elhoseiny, David E. Keyes

May 2026

Career Opportunity

Senior Researcher – Efficient AI

Posted: April 23, 2026

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Research Area(s): Algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Hardware and devices, Programming languages and software engineering, Systems and networking

We are an applied research team focused on advancing efficiency across the AI stack, spanning models, ML frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and hardware. The ideal Senior Researcher candidate will work across the full stack—from large-scale serving…

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MemExplorer: Navigating the Heterogeneous Memory Design Space for Agentic Inference NPUs

Haoran Wu, Zeyu Cao, Yao Lai, Binglei Lou, Jiayi Nie, Can Xiao, T. Adeniran, Przemyslaw Forys, Kauser Johar, Catriona R Wright, Junyi Liu, Kai Shi, Nicholas D. Lane, R. Antonova, Jianyi Cheng, Timothy Jones, Aaron Zhao, Robert Mullins

April 2026

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Exergy-based pore-network optimization of gas diffusion layers for enhanced efficiency in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Sa′ed Rawashdea, M. Almajali, Ahmed Salem, Akram E. Zeid, Nathan Kawansson, D. Paterson

ScienceDirect | April 2026

Publication

HPCCFA: Leveraging Hardware Performance Counters for Control Flow Attestation

Claudius Pott, Luca Wilke, Jan Wichelmann, Thomas Eisenbarth

March 2026

Publication

See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision-Language Models

∗. IkechukwuUchendu, Swati Goel, Karly Hou, Ebrahim M. Songhori, V. Reddi, Vincent Zhuang, Google DeepMind

March 2026

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Extreme-MIMO Field Trials in 7 GHz Band: Unlocking the Potential of New Spectrum for 6G

Seunghyun Lee, Jungmin Yoon, Sangwon Jung, Younghan Nam, Gary Xu, Chan-Byoung Chae, Juho Lee, Jianzhong Zhang

March 2026

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LUMINA: LLM-Guided GPU Architecture Exploration via Bottleneck Analysis

Tao Zhang, Rui Ma, Shuotao Xu, Yongqiang Xiong, Peng Cheng

March 2026

What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu | Microsoft Research Podcast

Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications

Inclusive Digital Maker Futures for Children via Physical Computing | Event

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Cambridge Internship: Novel Light Source Design

423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s GMI Bi-Directional HCF Transmission

Cross-Layer Energy Analysis of Multimodal Training on Grace Hopper Superchips

Senior Researcher – Efficient AI

MemExplorer: Navigating the Heterogeneous Memory Design Space for Agentic Inference NPUs

Exergy-based pore-network optimization of gas diffusion layers for enhanced efficiency in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

HPCCFA: Leveraging Hardware Performance Counters for Control Flow Attestation

See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision-Language Models

Extreme-MIMO Field Trials in 7 GHz Band: Unlocking the Potential of New Spectrum for 6G

LUMINA: LLM-Guided GPU Architecture Exploration via Bottleneck Analysis

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