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Research project

Lasers that Learn

Staff

Lead researchers

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-ORC advanced
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

Research outputs

Laser induced forward transfer imaging using deep learning
James A. Grant-Jacob, Michalis N. Zervas & Ben Mills, 2025, Discover Applied Sciences, 7(4)
DOI: 10.1007/s42452-025-06679-x
Type: article
Light sensing of pollen using artificial intelligence
James A. Grant-Jacob, 2025
Type: conference
Classifying paint colour using acoustic data from laser ablation
James A. Grant-Jacob, Michalis N. Zervas & Ben Mills, 2025, Optical Materials Express, 15(4), 766-774
DOI: 10.1364/OME.558459
Type: article
Pollen image manipulation using latent space
Ben Mills, Michalis N. Zervas & James A. Grant-Jacob, 2025, Frontiers in Plant Science, 16
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1539128
Type: article
Imaging pollen using a Raspberry Pi and LED with deep learning
Ben Mills, Michalis Zervas & James A. Grant-Jacob, 2024, Science of the Total Environment, 955
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177084
Type: article