PhotonicsAI Lab · Opportunities
Join PhotonicsAI Lab
Help us explore the connections between light, materials and intelligence.
We welcome enquiries from students and researchers interested in our research directions. Relevant backgrounds include physics, photonics, chemistry and materials science, as well as AI, software and experimental hardware.
Ways to get involved
Bachelor and master students
Enquire about research projects and thesis topics that connect your studies with experimental, computational or materials research in the lab.
Doctoral research
Discuss your research interests, potential supervision and the admission or funding route appropriate to a prospective PhD project.
Postdoctoral researchers
Contact us to discuss how your expertise could contribute to our research and whether a suitable project or funding opportunity is available.
Visits and collaboration
Propose a research visit or collaboration around a shared scientific question, method or experimental platform.
Project availability, supervision, admission requirements and funding are discussed individually. This page is an invitation to enquire; confirmed vacancies will include their own requirements and deadlines.
Find a research direction that interests you
Optical Computing and Hybrid Intelligence
Explore how optical hardware and digital AI can be trained and used together, from physical neural networks to hybrid electro-optical computing.
Optical Microfabrication and Integrated Photonics
Work with one- and two-photon microfabrication, two-photon polymerisation, substrate ablation and patterning for integrated photonics and lab-on-a-chip systems.
Liquid Crystals and Responsive Photonic Materials
Investigate liquid crystals, material synthesis and light-sensitive additives for responsive and reconfigurable photonic systems.
Broadband Wavefront Control and Structured Light
Study twisted nematics, liquid-crystal photoalignment and reconfigurable spatial light modulation for wavefront control and beam shaping.
Biophotonics and Soft Lab-on-a-Chip Platforms
Develop light-controlled, biocompatible platforms based on lyotropic liquid crystals, with a long-term interest in collective behaviour and biophotonic computing.
Computational Imaging and Reprogrammable Optics
Contribute to this emerging direction through optical modelling, hardware-in-the-loop optimisation and model-based AI for intensity and phase imaging.
AI Architectures for Scientific and Experimental Research
Build and study the connections between general AI, specialised AI scientists and experimentalists, and fast hardware-control layers. Explore how scientific tasks should be distributed across this hierarchy.
How to get in touch
For academic opportunities, email photonicsai@ysu.am, or use our Contact page. In your enquiry, briefly include:
- Your current study or career stage and relevant background.
- The research direction or scientific question you would like to explore.
- Your relevant skills or experience, and what you hope to develop.
- Your expected availability and any admission or funding questions.
You may also include a CV or links to relevant publications, projects or a portfolio.