Graphcore Academic Programme
Championing ground-breaking research and innovation in higher education.
Apply NowIntroducing Our Academic Programme
Graphcore builds tools and technology to enable innovations in Artificial Intelligence. Our academic programme is designed to support Professors, Researchers, Principal Investigators, Postdocs, PhD and Masters students conducting and publishing research using IPUs or in their coursework or teaching.

Research Priorities
We are actively looking for projects and proposals that fall in one of these areas, but also open to hearing ideas for new and novel ways to use IPUs.
- Optimisation of Stochastic Learning
- New Efficient Models for Deep Learning and Graph Networks
- Sparse Training
- New Directions for Parallel Training
- Local Parallelism
- Multi-Model Training
- Conditional Sparse Computation
Benefits
Universities selected to participate in the programme will benefit from the following