About
I am a 3rd year DPhil student in the Magnetism for Intelligent Devices (MIND) group in the Department of Physics. My primary focus is to study how wave-based systems compute information, but more broadly I also investigate a variety of dynamical, oscillatory and neuromorphic systems with the aim of understanding how to engineer more efficient and effective computer hardware.
As a Condensed Matter physicist, my research is centered on spin waves, surface acoustic waves and other solid-state substrates which can be used as physical reservoirs: dynamical systems whose natural interference, memory and nonlinearity do the work of a neural network. I combine simulation, signal processing and dynamical-systems theory to understand what these substrates can learn, and build hardware that uses them, from audio recognition to controlling a robot.