Sam Cooper
Imperial College London
Biography
Dr Sam Cooper leads the TLDR group at Imperial College London who focus on the application of AI to materials science. Recently publications have focused on the use of generative AI to create 3D microstructural data from a 2D image, conditionalized models to map processing parameters to the microstructure of battery electrodes, and the representation of scientific concepts inside LLMs. Dr Cooper was recently awarded a £2M EPSRC Open Plus Fellow in AI for Materials Science with Deep Reproducibility. In 2024 he spun-out a company, www.polaron.ai, to bring IP developed at Imperial to manufacturers around the world. Polaron were the winners of the inaugural Manchester prize and recently raised an $8M seed round. In 2017, Dr Cooper created the online course “Mathematics for Machine Learning” on Coursera which has since been taken by over 700,000 learners.
RSC journal affiliations
Editorial Board Member, EES Batteries