Meet the Programme Director
Suraj Bramhavar is an electrical engineer. His work focuses on how we can redefine the way computers process information to build dramatically more efficient computers. Suraj joined ARIA from Sync Computing, where he was co-founder and CTO, which optimises the use of modern cloud computing resources. The company was spun-out from his research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Suraj previously worked at Intel Corp, helping transition silicon photonics technology from an R&D effort into a business now worth over $1BN.
"The remarkable thing about AI is that all these incredible things we’ve seen it do all use a very narrow set of algorithms and an even narrower set of hardware blocks. It stands to reason that this is not the only way to do things."
Meet the Programme Director
Suraj Bramhavar is an electrical engineer. His work focuses on how we can redefine the way computers process information to build dramatically more efficient computers. Suraj joined ARIA from Sync Computing, where he was co-founder and CTO, which optimises the use of modern cloud computing resources. The company was spun-out from his research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Suraj previously worked at Intel Corp, helping transition silicon photonics technology from an R&D effort into a business now worth over $1BN.
"The remarkable thing about AI is that all these incredible things we’ve seen it do all use a very narrow set of algorithms and an even narrower set of hardware blocks. It stands to reason that this is not the only way to do things."
Meet the Programme Director
Suraj Bramhavar is an electrical engineer. His work focuses on how we can redefine the way computers process information to build dramatically more efficient computers. Suraj joined ARIA from Sync Computing, where he was co-founder and CTO, which optimises the use of modern cloud computing resources. The company was spun-out from his research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Suraj previously worked at Intel Corp, helping transition silicon photonics technology from an R&D effort into a business now worth over $1BN.
"The remarkable thing about AI is that all these incredible things we’ve seen it do all use a very narrow set of algorithms and an even narrower set of hardware blocks. It stands to reason that this is not the only way to do things."
Meet the Programme Director
Suraj Bramhavar is an electrical engineer. His work focuses on how we can redefine the way computers process information to build dramatically more efficient computers. Suraj joined ARIA from Sync Computing, where he was co-founder and CTO, which optimises the use of modern cloud computing resources. The company was spun-out from his research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Suraj previously worked at Intel Corp, helping transition silicon photonics technology from an R&D effort into a business now worth over $1BN.
"The remarkable thing about AI is that all these incredible things we’ve seen it do all use a very narrow set of algorithms and an even narrower set of hardware blocks. It stands to reason that this is not the only way to do things."
Meet the Programme Director
Suraj Bramhavar is an electrical engineer. His work focuses on how we can redefine the way computers process information to build dramatically more efficient computers. Suraj joined ARIA from Sync Computing, where he was co-founder and CTO, which optimises the use of modern cloud computing resources. The company was spun-out from his research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Suraj previously worked at Intel Corp, helping transition silicon photonics technology from an R&D effort into a business now worth over $1BN.
"The remarkable thing about AI is that all these incredible things we’ve seen it do all use a very narrow set of algorithms and an even narrower set of hardware blocks. It stands to reason that this is not the only way to do things."
Our research model
We believe people drive innovation. That's why our model focuses on empowering scientists and engineers with the resources and flexibility to pursue world-changing breakthroughs. This begins with our Programme Directors, who retain creative control over how and who they fund through to the researchers working across our programmes and seeds.
Together, our integrated activity will lead not only to technical breakthroughs but also to new communities of practice, institutional capacity, and capital inflows – all of which are essential for large-scale transformation.
Defining an opportunity space
PDs are tasked with defining an opportunity space – an area we believe is likely to yield breakthroughs. An ARIA opportunity space must be highly consequential for society, under-explored relative to its potential impact, and ripe for new talent, perspectives, or resources to change what’s possible.
Designing and pursuing ambitious R&D programmes
Within that space, PDs build multi-year R&D programme designed to advance complex, large-scale ideas that require coordinated investment and management across disciplines and institutions. Each PD directs the review, selection and funding of a portfolio of projects to advance the programme's goals.
Award seed funding
Outside of programmes, PDs award seed funding individuals or teams pursuing research aligned to their opportunity space. With smaller budgets and less structure than programmes, seeds support researchers to uncover new pathways that might otherwise fall through the cracks.
Strategic Foresight on Climate and Geopolitics: Toward governance of earth cooling approaches
Project Lead: Matthias Honegger, Centre for Future Generations. Understanding if and how earth cooling approaches could be responsibly governed is critical in light of accelerating climate impacts and the risk of unwise use.
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Neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders are the cause of an overwhelming societal and economic burden. What if we could solve the mysteries of neurological disorders and mental health by interfacing with the brain in new ways?
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