Dr Shashwat Sharma PhD, MASc

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2022
• MASc in Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2016
• BASc in Engineering Physics, University of Toronto, 2009
• Member, IEEE

Dr Sharma joined the University of Birmingham as an Assistant Professor in Applied Electromagnetics and Antennas in August 2025, with a research focus in high-performance numerical electromagnetics. He completed his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in 2014, 2016, and 2022, respectively, all from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Birmingham, Dr Sharma was a Senior Signal and Power Integrity Engineer at NVIDIA, working in the research and development of new electromagnetic modelling and optimisation methodologies for the design and analysis of high-speed package interconnects for NVIDIA's proprietary NVLINK interface, for the Blackwell and Rubin datacentre GPUs which have propelled progress in artificial intelligence in recent years.

Prior to that, Dr Sharma was a Computational Scientist at Flexcompute Inc., where he designed and developed hardware-optimized electromagnetic simulation technologies for GPU-accelerated simulation in the cloud, with a focus on finite difference and finite element-based methods.

Dr Sharma’s doctoral research focused on developing new theoretical and numerical paradigms for the electromagnetic simulation of multiscale structures, such as package and interposer interconnects, antenna arrays, and electromagnetic metastructures, with the boundary element method.

• Mobile Communications
• Computing and Communications Networks
• Integrated design project and final-year research project supervision

Inquiries from prospective PhD students and post-doctoral researchers are very welcome, particularly those interested in the following research areas:

• Numerical and computational electromagnetics
• Finite element and boundary element methods
• High-performance parallel computing, hardware acceleration
• Optimisation and machine intelligence applied towards inverse problems

While the availability of funding varies from year to year, prospective applicants who currently hold, or are eligible to apply for, their own sources of funding are encouraged to get in touch any time.

Working at the intersection of computational electromagnetics, numerical methods, and high-performance computing, Dr Sharma’s research group aims to pioneer new simulation technologies for the electromagnetic design of communications and computing devices.

The transmission of information through both wireless and wireline communications systems ultimately relies on the propagation of electromagnetic waves through complex environments, whether through the atmosphere to a satellite, or through the complex network of integrated circuits in a microprocessor. Electromagnetic simulation technologies are, therefore, crucial for the design of modern communications and computing systems, such as antenna arrays, metasurfaces, and high-speed chip- and package-level electrical interconnects. Dr Sharma’s research group specialises in the development of electromagnetic simulation technologies based on boundary element and finite element methods, coupled with high-performance computing paradigms, to meet the ever-growing modelling and optimisation challenges in the design of communications and computing devices.