Spent a great morning with students and staff of Imperial Maths School. Highlight: student telling me that "here, if I am worried or concerned about something, people actually listen to me". Huge kudos to the maths school team.
Very useful clarity in this letter from UKRI to Chi Onwurah on funding - especially the Sankey diagram.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
Block Number Formats are Direction Preservers
I've written a brief blog post about block number formats (MX, NVFP4, block floating point, block mini-floats, etc.) from a geometric perspective.
constantinides.net/2026/03/07/b...
Berliner Fernsehturm
This week I spoke at the SIAM PP 2026 conference in Berlin on the state of play of numerics, especially in AI / machine learning. More details on my talk and my slides are on here: www.linkedin.com/posts/george...
Professor Sir Bashir M. Al Hashimi CBE
Professor Sir Bashir M. Al Hashimi CBE
Professor Sir Bashir M. Al Hashimi CBE
On 4 February, ECRI hosted our inaugural guest lecture with Professor Sir Bashir M. Al Hashimi CBE, who delivered a thought-provoking talk on The Role of Humans in Scientific Discovery in the Age of LLMs.
Further information and a link to view the session can be found here: tinyurl.com/ecriGL
Highlight #6 of my trip: Chairing the machine learning session at #FPGA2026, including Hoang et al. taking a new direction in LUT-based NNs. To read more about these networks see the early papers LUTNet and LogicNets, then PolyLUT and NeuraLUT and this new work Kanelé.
Highlight #5 of my trip - my first (and second) @waymo.bsky.social rides. Mark Shand from Waymo and I have discussed their technology in some depth in the past but I was not really expecting just how much it felt like being part of my childhood sci-fi inspired dreams.
Highlight #4 of my trip: CAS (& its predecessor, InfoEng) research group @imperialeee.bsky.social Bay Area alumni gathering
Highlight #3 of my trip. My visit to @nvidia's stunningly beautiful HQ and learning about their current applied deep learning activity.
Super important inquiry launched by the Education Select Committee on AI and EdTech. Read more here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
Highlight #2 of my trip: spending time with @mwillsey.com and Russel Arbore at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Playing 20 questions with my family and I ask the question "is it no larger than a maximal horse". Queue hilarity. Apparently this is not a normal question.
Highlight #1 of my trip: reconnecting with @satnam6502.bsky.social and learning about harmonic.fun
I had a really productive visit to California this month to visit companies and attend FPGA 2026. More details in my blog post.
constantinides.net/2026/02/25/c...
Hear some of my @imperialecri.bsky.social colleagues talking about some of their great work in supporting interdisciplinary collaborations here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrRC...
We’re hiring at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Join @imperialecri.bsky.social as a Coordinator (Projects) and help deliver programmes and events that support our researchers. If you’re organised, collaborative and motivated to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. bit.ly/ECRICoordina...
Quite the venue for the last two days. Discussing neuromorphic computing with the NeuroWare and NeuMAT teams at Armourer's Hall.
St. John's College Cambridge at dawn, crossing the Bridge of Sighs. Back from a great meeting of Aaron Zhao's ARIA project meeting, kindly hosted by Rob Mullins.
Last week I got to 5 days with these wonderful folk at Dagstuhl talking Program Optimization with E-Graphs. My whirring ever since with new ideas and perspectives. Kudos to my fellow organisers, Willsey, Fallin and Steuwer and to all the participants for their open and active participation.
Delighted to be hosting Bashir Al-Hashimi in the new year for @imperialecri.bsky.social's inaugural Distinguished Guest Lecture.
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20341...
Congratulations to the hls4ml team on the acceptance of the paper "hls4ml: A Flexible, Open-Source Platform for Deep Learning Acceleration on Reconfigurable Hardware" by ACM TRETS.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.01463
I'm supporting Crohn's and Colitis awareness week as a member of Crohn's and Colitis UK
Calling @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social research supervisors.
Want to upskill and share best practices in PhD supervision? Learn about our @imperialecri.bsky.social Peer Mentoring Circles!
www.imperial.ac.uk/early-career...
Yesterday I gave an invited talk at @uwaterloo.ca (at the invitation of Nachiket Kapre) on digit slicing, exploring the fundamental question of which operand digits we need to know to compute a digit of a result. Picture is me and Milos Ercegovac, father of online arithmetic.
Disability History Month at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/equality/eve...
✨#Philosophy really can change minds. ✨To mark #WorldPhilosophyDay, here's a reminder of what a difference it can make.
As our Chair, @lucyobrien.bsky.social, puts it:
“Philosophy teaches skills integral to cultivating social values and conduct. It changes people's minds.”
Yesterday we had a lovely lunch to celebrate the completion of Martin Langhammer's PhD. With John Wickerson, Christos Savvas Bouganis, Wayne Luk, Peter Cheung and of course the star of the show, Martin Langhammer.
Enjoyed this Google Deepmind podcast on @waymo.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
Current and former @imperialeee.bsky.social students are gathering at EMNLP in China. This photo features two of my former PhD students Gao and Liu, one of my current PhD students @martaandronic.bsky.social, and two of my former UGs @martaandronic.bsky.social again and Zhao, latter now my colleague!
Assistant professorships at Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London!
*TWO* assistant professorships are available: One in Digital Electronics and one in Biomedical Electronics.
Please spread the word.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
