News — Photonics CDT

Leading UK photonics company licenses PhD student’s deep learning technology

Research by UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering student, Zacharaya Shabka, with world-renowned industry partner, Polatis, finds real-world application.

EPSRC funded researcher creates an open access tool to benchmark and investigate data network systems

Christopher Parsonson is a PhD student in AI & Networks on the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems programme (IPES CDT) at University College London (UCL). As part of a team of researchers lead by Dr Georgios Zervas, Associate Professor of Optical Networked Systems, he produced an open access (OA) framework called TrafPy, which was recently published in the Elsevier journal Optical Switching and Networking.

PhD student from the IPES CDT awarded the prestigious IEEE Photonics Graduate Scholarship

Congratulations to Callum Deakin on being selected for the IEEE Photonics Society Award - a prestigious scholarship programme established to reward outstanding student members pursuing education within the Photonics Society field of interest.

PhD student monitors the brain activity of volunteers listening to music at festival

Georgina Leadley, a PhD student on the CEPS CDT at University of Cambridge, and her research group conducted an experiment at Green Man Festival to monitor the brain activity of healthy volunteers whilst they listen to music. This small study forms part of early investigations into the possible links between dementia, memory and music using non-invasive techniques with light.

Professor Georgios Zervas speaks about the growing demands for energy efficient and resilient networks and systems for data centres.

Professor Georgios Zervas from the Optical Networks Group, recently spoke to the Guardian on the growing demands for energy efficient and resilient networks and systems for data centres.