Sam is a Reader in Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design in the Dyson School of Design Engineering and Imperial College London and leader of the Tools for Learning, Design, and Research (TLDR) group. His work is primarily focused on the design of next generation energy storage technologies, as well as exploring the development of machine learning methods in this space. The TLDR group have pioneered the use of AI generate 3D data from 2D images, as well as fusing data from a variety of imaging techniques. Most recently, their work on the optimisation of battery electrode microstructures using conditionalized generative AI was featured on the front cover of the journal Matter. In 2023 he spun-out a company, Polaron, along with two of his former PhD students, Isaac Squires and Steve Kench (www.polaron.ai) to put these AI tools in the hands engineers across the advanced materials sector.
Dr Sam Cooper
Reader in Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design in the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London
