Wayne's Summer Research Projects

ideal for:

• gaining experience and a taste of leading-edge research
• acquiring background for an outstanding final-year project or industrial placement
  (with luck, your competence and efforts will be recognised...)

• application and system builders, such as Morgan Stanley, Sharp, Sony
• hardware platform and tool developers, such as Celoxica and Maxeler
• customisable hardware vendors, such as Altera, ARC, Xilinx

• customisable multimedia engines for bio-medical processing
• reconfigurable processors for distributed network security
• parallel finance computation such as interest rate modelling
• multiprocessor architectures for bioinformatics and AI
• adaptable design for advanced robotics and smartcards
• compilation and verification methods for computing systems

• largely flexible start/end date, preferred availability: 10 weeks minimum
• support in the form of a bursary award; overseas students are eligible
• detailed tasks to be decided on an individual basis
• whenever possible, your preference for area of work etc will be taken into consideration
• low-cost college accommodation available
• other useful information in Custom Computing homepage (local access only) and UROP

• background information, eg date of birth, detailed college exam results
• relevant interest and experience, eg some exciting technical projects that you did
• email address of personal tutors

• read this survey paper
• watch this video which covers a grand challenge in computing

Here is an inspiring account (written in 1957!) of why undergraduate students should have their own personal research projects. Some project students become interested in PhD research, and it is useful to know how to produce great research, how to have a bad career in research, and about life, the universe and fishing.