Samuel J. Cooper

Researcher · Founder

Materials and chemistryMachine learning

Now Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design, Dyson School of Design Engineering; leads the TLDR group · Imperial College London

Now Co-founder (spun out in 2023 with Isaac Squires and Steve Kench) and Chief Scientist · Polaron

@camsooper tldr-group.github.io

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TIMELINE · 2026-05-06

Ge Lei and Samuel Cooper at Imperial show that an LLM guiding experiments changes its predictions and confidence with the wording and format of the question, not only with the data

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Polaron2023 – presentCo-founder (spun out in 2023 with Isaac Squires and Steve Kench) and Chief Scientist
Imperial College LondonProfessor of Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design, Dyson School of Design Engineering; leads the TLDR group

On the timeline

2026-05-06Ge Lei and Samuel Cooper at Imperial show that an LLM guiding experiments changes its predictions and confidence with the wording and format of the question, not only with the data
2026-01-14Imperial College researchers have GPT-5 write battery fast-charging policies that, in simulation, end about 4.2 points higher in battery health than a multi-step baseline

Sourcesimperial.ac.uk

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