Research project

Lasers that Learn

Research groups:

Vision, Learning and Control

Nanophotonics Group
Lead researchers:

Dr Ben Mills
Other researchers:

Professor Robert Eason,

Professor Mahesan Niranjan,

Dr Matthew Praeger
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ben Mills

Principal Research Fellow

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Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

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Professor Mahesan Niranjan

ISIS Chair

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Dr Matthew Praeger

Senior Research Fellow

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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

Generating synthetic microscope images of pollen using latent space

James A. Grant-Jacob, Michalis Zervas & Ben Mills, 2024

Type: conference

Evolution of laughter from play

2024, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 17(1)

DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2024.2338073

Type: article

Imaging femtosecond laser ablation using plasma emission and deep learning

James A. Grant-Jacob, Ben Mills & Michalis Zervas, 2024

Type: conference

Live imaging of laser machining via plasma deep learning

James A. Grant-Jacob, Ben Mills & Michalis N. Zervas, 2023, Optics Express, 31(25), 42581-42594

DOI: 10.1364/OE.507708

Type: article

Predictive visualisation of high repetition rate femtosecond machining of silica using deep learning

Ben Mills, James A. Grant-Jacob & Michalis N. Zervas, 2023, Optical Materials Express, 13(12), 3641-3652

DOI: 10.1364/OME.505746

Type: article