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A*STAR

A collection of 4 issues

Conference: ICMAT-2025, Singapore

Patrick gave an invited talk at the ICMAT 2025 conference in Singapore. His talk, on "Single Shot Multi-Objective Optimization for Epitaxially-Grown Microring Lasers" reports recent work done in a collaboration between Manchester, the Australian National University, and A*STAR Singapore.

Funded PhD positions available (Home and Overseas)

We have new funded PhD opportunities available in the group. These are through two partnerships, with A*STAR in Singapore and IIT Kharagpur in India. These projects are both split-site, and are open to home and exceptional overseas students. They are open now for a September 2023 start. Please check

Welcome to Mihir Athavale!

The group welcomes Mihir Athavale, a new PhD student on the A*STAR program. He will spend one year in Manchester before moving to the group of Kedar Hippalgaonkar in Singapore for two years. We warmly welcome Mihir!

Funded PhD position with A*STAR

The group is now advertising for a funded PhD position as part of the A*STAR ARAP scheme, in collaboration with Kedar Hippalgaonkar of A*STAR and NTU in Singapore. The project will build on the high-throughput techniques developed in the Manchester group, and the Bayesian optimization approaches at A*