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Research project

Lasers that Learn

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Ben Mills

Principal Research Fellow
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Email: bm602@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

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Email: rwe@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Mahesan Niranjan

ISIS Chair
Connect with Mahesan

Email: mn@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Dr Matthew Praeger

Senior Research Fellow
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Email: mattp@soton.ac.uk

Dr James A. Grant-Jacob

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • high harmonic generation and phase retrieval
  • laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT)
  • pulsed laser deposition, laser fabrication, laser machining
Connect with James A.

Email: J.A.Grant-Jacob@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Vision, Learning and Control

Our work covers a range of technological areas from control, to machine learning and computer vision.

Research outputs

Three approaches to the automation of laser system alignment and their resource implications: a case study
David A. Robb, Donald Risbridger, Ben Mills, Ildar Rakhmatulin, Xianwen Kong, Mustafa Erden, M.J. Daniel Esser, Richard M. Carter & Michael J. Chantler, 2024
Type: conference
Demystifying: machine learning
Ben Mills, James A. Grant-Jacob & Michalis Zervas, 2024
Type: conference
Creativity of light
James A. Grant-Jacob & Ben Mills, 2024, Journal of Creativity and Inspiration, 2(3)
Type: article
Pollen sensing using AI
James A. Grant-Jacob, 2024
Type: conference
Generating synthetic microscope images of pollen using latent space
James A. Grant-Jacob, Michalis Zervas & Ben Mills, 2024
Type: conference