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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

Selective laser cleaning of microbeads using deep learning
Yuchen Liu, James A. Grant-Jacob, Yunhui Xie, Fedor Chernikov, Michalis Zervas & Ben Mills, 2025, Scientific Reports, 15(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-99646-w
Type: article
Deep learning for simultaneous phase and amplitude identification in coherent beam combination
Fedor Chernikov, Yunhui Xie, James A. Grant-Jacob, Yuchen Liu, Michalis N. Zervas & Ben Mills, 2025, Scientific Reports, 15(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-96385-w
Type: article
Diatom lensless imaging using laser scattering and deep learning
Ben Mills, Michalis N. Zervas & James A. Grant-Jacob, 2025, ACS ES&T Water, 5(4), 1814–1820
DOI: 10.1021/acsestwater.4c01186
Type: article
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 and projection 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