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Attendees at the 2026 Summer internship showcase

N8 CIR Summer Internships 2026

As part of ongoing N8 funding for the N8 CIR, we provided four 8-week undergraduate internships at each N8 partnership university which run during the summer vacation. These projects, aimed at penultimate- or final-year undergraduate students are designed to introduce them to a research environment, teach them key skills and inspire them to consider digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) careers.


Projects are varied in focus, and we greatly enjoyed learning about the research in our Showcase on the 16th September.

The university links below show the projects, a student bio and their expectations before starting their internship. To learn about the conclusions of their research, see their slides, and watch their presentations, follow their personal link.

Deep Generalised Models

Nguyen Thien An

Establishing Machine Learning Protocols for Directed Synthesis and Reaction Optimisation

Francesca Farrand

Molecular Design of New Polymers for Surface Modification of Fabrics: A Multi-Scale Computer Simulation Approach

Kinga Kornas

MCMC Convergence and Tessellation Budget Sensitivity in the AddiVortes Model

Lewis Maltby

Automated Pest Detection in Plants

Ernest Uche-Eze

Revisiting the Risk Elicitation Puzzle: A Machine Learning Approach

Anand Chavali

GEM: a Domain-Specific Modelling Language for Disease Outbreak Models

Crystal Leong

Toward better energy and marginal carbon intensity data for research and teaching

Luke Needle

Creating a Historical Sentiment Lexicon Using Johnson’s Dictionary and HPC

Millie Cain

Population-Scale Biomechanics: Modelling of a Spinal Unit using HPC

Namira Chowdhury

Interpreting Readability Evaluation with Explainable AI

Owais Mahmood

Where did the English novel come from? Experimenting with computational approaches to investigate language in seventeenth-century prose fiction

Nell Wilkinson

Reinforcement Learning and Symbolic Transformer for Stability Certificates of Nonlinear Power Systems

Abhiram Bainkrodu Bhat

Machine Learning–Enabled Techno-Economic Analysis of Flexible Nuclear Power for Enhanced Renewable Integration in the GB Power System

Luke Bennett

ChannelGate: A Gating Network to Route Ion-Channel Data towards Optimal Deep-Learning Models

Chengxu Jiang

AI-Guided Discovery of Large-Band-Gap Dielectric Materials for Next-Generation Power Grids

Shivansh Raj

How well can large language models perform literature reviews?

Abdullah Al Kalbani

Sustainable AI Data Compression Case Study: Profiling BOA on BEDE

Hanzila Hussain

The Language of Early Capitalism: A Computational Analysis

William Roper

Identification of sub-groups of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasepatients using clustering analysis of small airway histopathology

Urbi Roychowdhury

Explainable health data analytics with tsetlin machines

Jamie Jeays

Data Pre-processing and Generation for Real-World Neural Architecture Search Applications

James Kaye

Calculating Long-Time Quantum Trajectories Using Arbitrary Precision Floating Point Numbers on COMET

George Maniadakis

Deployed End-to-End Machine Learning on an Autonomous Racing Car

Shamik Srimany

From Simulation to AI: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Chemical Kinetics in Turbulent Hydrogen Swirling Flames

Adam Wilson

AI for Smart Farming: Detecting and Identifying Cattle from Drone Images 

Eyad Ahmed Abdelaziz Abdelnabi Mohamed

Improving the FLAME GPU User Experience through Examples 

Lewie Fleming

GPU-Accelerated Domain Adaptation for Personalised Speech Recognition of Electrolarynx Voices

Echo Garratt

MobGap-Plus: An HPC-Powered ML Pipeline for Digital Mobility: Bridging Python & R-Shiny

Artem Vakhutinskiy

Parallel Hybrid Solving of Challenging Decision Problems

George Jopson

First-principles prediction of surface and nanocrystal properties of BaCd2P2 for optoelectronic applications

Noah Minto

Automated Biomechanical Pipelines for Personalized Diaphragmatic Assessment

Prithwish Mukherjee

High-Performance Proteomics at Scale: An R Package and Interactive Web Portal for Standardised Analysis

Anna Scott

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