Lent 2022
Identifying the best routes to market for a simulation tool
Inventors: Dr. Simon Fairclough & Professor Rachel Oliver, Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride Mentor: TBC Multi-layer semiconductor devices are the heart of the modern electronics industry and are constantly being developed to produce ever more energy efficient and smaller devices. The inventors are world-leading experts on Gallium Nitride (GaN), and have already created a spin-out…
Making autonomous systems safer and more trustworthy using uncertainty-tracking computing
Inventor: Dr. Phillip Stanley-Marbell, Electrical Engineering & Signaloid Mentor: TBC Autonomous systems such as self-driving cars, drones and robots represent a rapidly-growing market that will touch every aspect of human life. To be widely deployed, they must be trusted by humans. Today, they are not: 70% of U.S. drivers report they would be afraid to…
Exploring the market need for easily-manufactured vibration-dampening polymers
Inventors: Dr. Eugene Terentjev & Mohand Saed, Physics & Cambridge Smart Plastics Mentor: Bob Pettigrew The research team are experts in creating smart polymeric materials with unusual properties, and have set up a startup company called ‘Cambridge Smart Plastics’ which has successfully received funding from Innovate UK. The i-Team will be focusing their research on…