Dr Sam Cooper

Sam is an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design in the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London and leader of the Tools for Learning, Design, and Research (TLDR) group. His work focuses 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 to generate 3D data from 2D images, as well as fusing data from a variety of imaging techniques. 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 Sam spun-out a company, Polaron, along with two of his former PhD students, Dr Isaac Squires and Dr Steve Kench (www.polaron.ai). Polaron recently raised an $8M seed round and their software is already being used by several of the world’s largest battery manufacturers. Sam also leads the orchestration and agentic AI activities for Imperial’s DIGIBAT and the £20M European project FULL-MAP.