Professor Antonio Hurtado
Institute of Photonics
Personal statement
I am a Reader and Turing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fellow with the Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK). I completed my Ph.D. at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. I have more than 15 years of international research experience in photonics, having worked at the Universities of Essex and Strathclyde (UK), the University of New Mexico (USA) and UPM (Spain). I was the recipient of two Marie Curie Fellowships awarded by the European Commission, and a Chancellor’s Fellowship from the University of Strathclyde, following which I was appointed as a Lecturer at Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics in 2014. At Strathclyde, I have established and lead the Neuromorphic Photonics research group and have been Principal Investigator in programmes funded by UK (e.g. EPSRC), US (e.g. ONRG) and EU (e.g. H2020 Programme) agencies. Notably, in 2020 I was awarded a Turing AI Acceleration Fellowship by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Office and the UK Govt. Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Dept., to develop a 5-year Programme on ‘Photonics for Ultrafast AI’.
Publications
- Neuromorphic photonic processing and memory with spiking resonant tunnelling diode neurons and neural networks
- Owen-Newns Dafydd, Robertson Joshua, Donati Giovanni, Al-Taai Qusay, Wasige Edward, Romeira Bruno, Figueiredo José M L, Lüdge Kathy, Hurtado Antonio
- Advanced Intelligent Systems (2026)
- Photonic Spiking Neural Network with Coupled Passive Silicon Microring Resonators
- Donati G, Biasi S, Pavesi L, Hurtado A
- 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipc65510.2025.11282384
- Polarization-sensitive nanowire terahertz receivers : from laboratory research to industry
- Peng Kun, Morgan Nicholas P, Jevtics Dimitars, Wagner Ford M, Siday Thomas, Xia Chelsea Q, Dede Didem, Boureau Victor, Piazza Valerio, Guilhabert Benoit, Hurtado Antonio, Strain Michael J, Dawson Martin D, Fu Lan, Tan Hark H, Jagadish Chennupati, Morral Anna Fontcuberta i, Johnston Michael B
- 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipc65510.2025.11282030
- All-optical spiking processing and reservoir computing with a passive silicon microring and wavelength-time division multiplexing
- Donati Giovanni, Biasi Stefano, Pavesi Lorenzo, Hurtado Antonio
- Photonics Research Vol 13, pp. 2641-2653 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/PRJ.558405
- Spiking rate and latency encoding with resonant tunneling diode neuron circuits and design influences
- Donati Giovanni, Owen-Newns Dafydd, Robertson Joshua, Porte Xavier, Malysheva Ekaterina, Figueiredo Jose, Romeira Bruno, Dolores-Calzadilla Victor, Hurtado Antonio
- Physical Review Applied Vol 24 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/n41r-3t9v
- Fast edge detection in time-series using photonic-electronic spiking resonant tunnelling diode neurons
- Owen-Newns Dafydd, Donati Giovanni, Adair Andrew, Black Dylan, Wasige Edward, Figueiredo José M L, Romeira Bruno, Robertson Joshua, Hurtado Antonio
- 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec65582.2025.11110658
Research Interests
My research interests lie within Photonics for Neuromorphic Computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is a rapidly emerging scientific field combining concepts from diverse disciplines (e.g. photonics, neuroscience, computer science) seeking to emulate the brain’s powerful computational capabilities for new paradigms in light-enabled ultrafast brain-inspired computing and AI. I have established the Neuromorphic Photonics group at Strathclyde, which deliveres fundamental and impact-inspired research in this emerging field, with a main focus on novel ultrafast artificial photonic spking neurons, photonic spiking neural networks and optical spike-based processing platforms towards high-speed, energy-efficient, light-enabled, brain-inspired computing architectures.
Professional Activities
- GHz-Rate Photonic Spiking Neurons and Spiking Neural Networks
- Speaker
- 26/9/2023
- Towards chip-scale photonic spiking neurons and neural networks
- Speaker
- 26/9/2023
- Photonic Spiking Neurons and Spiking Neural Networks
- Speaker
- 11/9/2023
- Photonics for Spiking Neurons and Spiking Neural Networks
- Speaker
- 13/7/2023
- CLEO Europe 2023 - Joint Symposium 'Photonics for AI'
- Organiser
- 26/6/2023
- External Examiner/Assessor PhD Viva - Univ. Trento (Italy) & UiB (Spain)
- Examiner
- 15/6/2023
Projects
- UKRI Centre for Neuromorphic Technologies - Photonics focus - Aston lead - Period 1
- Hurtado, Antonio (Principal Investigator) Di Caterina, Gaetano (Co-investigator) Porte Parera, Javier (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2029
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy- SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) | Quinn, Gemma
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator) Strain, Michael (Principal Investigator) Hurtado, Antonio (Co-investigator) Stillings, Mark (Co-investigator) Quinn, Gemma (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
- SPIKING PHOTONIC-ELECTRONIC IC FOR QUICK AND EFFICIENT PROCESSING (SPIKEPro)
- Hurtado, Antonio (Principal Investigator) Clemente, Carmine (Co-investigator) Porte Parera, Javier (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 29-Jan-2028
- ProSensing: Low-Power, High-Speed, Adaptable Processing-In-Sensing Capability
- Hurtado, Antonio (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- PhotRad
- Hurtado, Antonio (Principal Investigator) Clemente, Carmine (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Ultrafast Terahertz Polarimetry Enabled by Semiconductor Nanowire Sensors
- Hurtado, Antonio (Principal Investigator) Strain, Michael (Co-investigator)
- 04-Jan-2022 - 03-Jan-2026
Contact
Professor
Antonio
Hurtado
Institute of Photonics
Email: antonio.hurtado@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4668