• PONENTE: Professor Julian Gardner, School of Engineering, Warwick University, UK
  • TITULO:  Olfactory Sensors and Electronic Noses
  • LUGAR / FECHA:  Sala de Grados A de la Escuela de Ingenieras Industriales. Miércoles 4 de Mayo de 2022 a las 16:30h
  • Organiza: Javier González (Línea Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems. Robótica y Control Inteligente)
  • RESUMEN: The sense of smell is the least well understood of all our senses and yet its perception is not only critical to our quality of life but also our very health. This talk explores recent academic and commercial effort to development sensors that can detect simple odours and also AI based systems called electronic noses that can classify complex smells. Different applications are presented from classifying the quality of foods and beverages to identifying diseases from human breath. Finally some more advanced applications are explored such as neuromorphic algorithms and info-chemical communication using mobile robots.

Julian Gardner obtained a first in physics from Birmingham University, followed by a PhD in physical electronics from Cambridge University and a DSc in Electronic Engineering from Warwick University. He has 5 years’ experience in industry as an R & D Engineer and 30 years working in the field of chemical microsensors at Warwick University, and is currently Professor of Electronic Engineering. He founded several electronic nose companies in the 1990s and 2000s. He co-founded Cambridge CMOS Sensors Ltd in 2008 and was its first CTO it was sold in 2016 to ams. He then co-founded in 2016 two more university spin-outs Flusso Ltd and Sorex Sensor Ltd.  His expertise is in the design of MEMS based chemical sensors, and the signal processing/data analysis of sensor arrays, including electronic noses and electronic tongues. He has published over 500 papers in the field of micro sensors, authored 10 books and over 20 patents. He has won various awards and medals from the IET, IEEE and the prestigious Royal Society Mullard Award for innovation. He is also a Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the US Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.