Doctor Philippos Papaphilippou

Dr Philippos Papaphilippou

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Reconfigurable computing, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) 
  • Many-core computer architecture
  • Big data analytics and sorting accelerators

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Accepting applications from PhD students.

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About

Philippos Papaphilippou is a Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Southampton. Philippos joined UoS in 2025. He received his PhD from Imperial College in 2021 and masters from the University of Cambridge in 2017. His doctoral studies were funded by dunnhumby (Tesco) for researching novel accelerators to improve the performance of customer analytics. After a contractorship at Microsoft and a two-year industrial position at Huawei R&D Cambridge as a CPU Architect, he has joined Trinity College Dublin as a temporary Assistant Professor in 2023. His current research includes reconfigurable architectures, such as with FPGAs and their applications on data science, computer architecture and beyond.

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