NI-HPC User Conference 2025

The Northern Ireland High-Performance Computing User Conference brings together both existing and potential users of HPC in Northern Ireland. It will be of particular interest to users considering the transition of their software and research to the facility to accelerate and improve their research. The current program has two keynote International speakers and several talks from users in neuroscience, neurotechnology, precision medicine, pharmacy, hydrogen safety, and physics. 

Date: 4 November 2025

Time: 9:15 - 4:30

Location: Queen's University, Belfast,  Riddel Hall 

 

Agenda

09:15 Arrival and registration. Refreshments.

09:45 Welcome and outline goals for the day: David Smyth, Director, NI-HPC Our Sector

10:00 The Future of HPC in Northern Ireland: (TBC)

10:20 Panel Discussion

10:50 Research presentation: (TBC)

11:05 Research presentation: (TBC)

11:20 Coffee break & Poster session

11:40 Sustainable Computing: Vaughan Purnell, Research Computing Manager, NI-HPC

12.00 Title TBC: Tania Malik, Director of @HPC Nexus Lab, Assistant Professor, Technological University Dublin

12:10 Living Lab: Hans Vandierendonck, Professor of High-Performance and Data-Intensive Computing at Queen's University Belfast

12:25 Title TBC: Michela Black, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Computing, Engineering & Intelligent Systems, Principle Investigator for AI Collaboration Centre (AICC)

12:50 WHPC Lunch and WHPC dessert club (user poster session)

13:50 The landscape of AI and HPC (Isambard-AI): Dr Sadaf Alam, Director of Advanced Computing Strategy, University of Bristol

14:10 Positive Impact in the Workplace: Cara Quinn, Stellar Impact, Mindset Coach.

15:00 Lightning talks - research posters

15:10 Coffee break & Poster session

15:40 Title TBC: Damien Coyle, UKRI Turing AI Fellow and Director of The Bath Institute for the Augmented Human

16:00 HPC use in Sustainable Digital Fashion Design: Suhasish Basak, PHD Researcher, Ulster University

16:15 Research presentation: (TBC)

16:30 Concluding remarks.