EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industry-Inspired Photonic Imaging, Sensing and Analysis

在Heriot-Watt与St Andrews、格拉斯哥、Strathclyde、Edinburgh和邓迪领导的联盟中，“EPSRC CDT行业启发的光子成像、传感和分析”的提案响应了成像、传感和分析的优先领域。它认识到光子学在许多成像和传感技术中的基础作用，同时也注意到使用机器学习等新兴计算技术来提高其性能的令人兴奋的机会。光子学在传感和成像中的作用很难被夸大。智能和自主系统正在推动用于汽车激光雷达和智能手机手势识别的激光器的增长;光子结构健康监测保护我们的道路，铁路，空气和能源基础设施;光谱学继续寻找新的应用，从识别森林到检测化学战剂。致力于传感和成像市场的英国光子公司对我们的经济至关重要（见CfS），但他们的成功受到缺乏博士级研究人员的威胁，这些研究人员对光子成像，传感和分析具有广泛的知识和理解，再加上高水平的业务，管理和沟通技能。通过确保这些人才的供应，我们的CDT将巩固英国的工业知识基础，推动高增长的出口导向型经济部门，这些部门的光子产品和服务对社会产生深远的影响，从消费技术和移动的计算设备到医疗保健和安全。拟议的CDT将配置大多数（40）学生攻读工程学位，其特点是由一家公司发起的研究项目，并在其网站上托管。认识到公司的兴趣跨越所有技术准备水平，我们正在引入博士流，其中一些（15）学生将在大学实验室进行工业相关的研究，具有比EngD项目更大的灵活性和技术风险。超过100个项目的压倒性行业承诺代表了近100%的行业超额认购，Fraunhofer UK、NPL、Renishaw、Thales、Gooch and Housego和列奥纳多等主要利益相关方以及许多中小企业提供了438万英镑的现金和556万英镑的实物支持。我们向EPSRC提出的486万英镑的申请将支持35名学生，其中包括40名工程师和15名博士研究人员。其余的学生将由工业（230万英镑）和大学（93万英镑）的捐款资助，提供EPSRC资金的特殊2：3现金杠杆，培训更多的学生，并以较低的成本/头纳税人比我们目前的CDT.For我们的中心是反应行业的需求需要一个多样化的主管池。在整个联盟中，我们已经确定了72名核心主管和另外58名可用于项目监督，自2013年以来，他们的1679篇论文包括154篇在科学/自然/ PRL中，其活跃的RCUK PI资金为9700万英镑。所有的学者都是经验丰富的主管，许多现任或前任CDT主管。在圣安德鲁斯和爱丁堡为期8个月的前置住宅阶段将确保队列凝胶强烈，并将使学生掌握他们在开始研究项目之前所需的知识和技能。商业模块（x3）将使每个队列回到赫瑞瓦特为期1周的时间，周末技能研讨会将用于定期团聚队列，进一步巩固点对点网络。核心授课课程与专业选项增加将共计120学分，并将辅以我们的行业合作伙伴和外部供应商提供的专业技能和负责任的创新培训。遵循我们目前的模式，拥有一个学术-工业混合管理委员会和一个由世界领先专家组成的独立国际咨询委员会。

In a consortium led by Heriot-Watt with St Andrews, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Dundee, this proposal for an "EPSRC CDT in Industry-Inspired Photonic Imaging, Sensing and Analysis" responds to the priority area in Imaging, Sensing and Analysis. It recognises the foundational role of photonics in many imaging and sensing technologies, while also noting the exciting opportunities to enhance their performance using emerging computational techniques like machine learning.Photonics' role in sensing and imaging is hard to overstate. Smart and autonomous systems are driving growth in lasers for automotive lidar and smartphone gesture recognition; photonic structural-health monitoring protects our road, rail, air and energy infrastructure; and spectroscopy continues to find new applications from identifying forgeries to detecting chemical-warfare agents. UK photonics companies addressing the sensing and imaging market are vital to our economy (see CfS) but their success is threatened by a lack of doctoral-level researchers with a breadth of knowledge and understanding of photonic imaging, sensing and analysis, coupled with high-level business, management and communication skills. By ensuring a supply of these individuals, our CDT will consolidate the UK industrial knowledge base, driving the high-growth export-led sectors of the economy whose photonics-enabled products and services have far-reaching impacts on society, from consumer technology and mobile computing devices to healthcare and security.Building on the success of our CDT in Applied Photonics, the proposed CDT will be configured with most (40) students pursuing an EngD degree, characterised by a research project originated by a company and hosted on their site. Recognizing that companies' interests span all technology readiness levels, we are introducing a PhD stream where some (15) students will pursue industrially relevant research in university labs, with more flexibility and technical risk than would be possible in an EngD project.Overwhelming industry commitment for over 100 projects represents a nearly 100% industrial oversubscription, with £4.38M cash and £5.56M in-kind support offered by major stakeholders including Fraunhofer UK, NPL, Renishaw, Thales, Gooch and Housego and Leonardo, as well as a number of SMEs. Our request to EPSRC for £4.86M will support 35 students, from a total of 40 EngD and 15 PhD researchers. The remaining students will be funded by industrial (£2.3M) and university (£0.93M) contributions, giving an exceptional 2:3 cash gearing of EPSRC funding, with more students trained and at a lower cost / head to the taxpayer than in our current CDT.For our centre to be reactive to industry's needs a diverse pool of supervisors is required. Across the consortium we have identified 72 core supervisors and a further 58 available for project supervision, whose 1679 papers since 2013 include 154 in Science / Nature / PRL, and whose active RCUK PI funding is £97M. All academics are experienced supervisors, with many current or former CDT supervisors.An 8-month frontloaded residential phase in St Andrews and Edinburgh will ensure the cohort gels strongly, and will equip students with the knowledge and skills they need before beginning their research projects. Business modules (x3) will bring each cohort back to Heriot-Watt for 1-week periods, and weekend skills workshops will be used to regularly reunite the cohort, further consolidating the peer-to-peer network.Core taught courses augmented with specialist options will total 120 credits, and will be supplemented by professional skills and responsible innovation training delivered by our industry partners and external providers.Governance will follow our current model, with a mixed academic-industry Management Committee and an independent International Advisory Board of world-leading experts.