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
- Programmable photonic extreme learning machines
- Rausell‐Campo José Roberto, Hurtado Antonio, Pérez‐López Daniel, Capmany Francoy José
- Laser and Photonics Reviews (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202400870
- Post-processing methods for delay embedding and feature scaling of reservoir computers
- Jaurigue Jonnel, Robertson Joshua, Hurtado Antonio, Jaurigue Lina, Lüdge Kathy
- Communications Engineering Vol 4 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44172-024-00330-0
- Roadmap on neuromorphic photonics : neuromorphic photonics with vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)
- Brunner Daniel, Shastri Bhavin J, Robertson Joshua, Porte Xavier, Hurtado Antonio
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.07917
- Spiking flip-flop memory in resonant tunnelling diode neurons
- Donati Giovanni, Owen-Newns Dafydd, Robertson Joshua, Malysheva Ekaterina, Adair Andrew, Figueiredo Jose, Romeira Bruno, Dolores-Calzadilla Victor, Hurtado Antonio
- Physical Review Letters Vol 133 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.267301
- Neuromorphic spiking flip-flop memory and spike-encoding with photonic-electronic RTD neurons
- Donati G, Owen-Newns D, Malysheva Ekaterina, Robertson J, Adair Andrew, Figueiredo Jose, Romeira Bruno, Dolores-Calzadilla Victor, Hurtado A
- 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2024 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipc60965.2024.10799826
- High speed time series prediction with a photonic spiking neural network built with a single VCSEL
- Owen-Newns D, Jaurigue L, Robertson J, Adair A, Jaurigue J, Lüdge K, Hurtado A
- 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2024 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipc60965.2024.10799650
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
- 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
- Photonic Spiking Neural Networks for Ultrafast Detection and Tracking
- Hurtado, Antonio (Principal Investigator) Di Caterina, Gaetano (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2023
- Turing AI Fellowship: PHOTONics for ultrafast Artificial Intelligence
- Hurtado, Antonio (Fellow)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Antonio
Hurtado
Institute of Photonics
Email: antonio.hurtado@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4668