Sunny Bains
Education
The Open University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Computation and Embodied Artificial Intelligence 1997-01-01 - 2005-01-01
Boston University
Master’s Degree, Journalism 1993-01-01 - 1994-01-01
Queen Mary University of London
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics 1988-01-01 - 1990-01-01
Imperial College London
, -Work Experience
UCL
Current
UCL
Freelance
Current
Freelance
Form & Content Media
Current
Form & Content Media
UCL Engineering Inspiration: ENGins
2011-08-01 - 2023-03-01
UCL Engineering Inspiration: ENGins
Imperial College London
2001-06-01 - 2013-11-01
Imperial College London
University of California, Berkeley
1999-09-01 - 1999-12-01
University of California, Berkeley
Laser Focus World Magazine
1992-09-01 - 1993-04-01
Laser Focus World Magazine
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
1991-01-01 - 1992-09-01
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
Holographics International Magazine
1987-04-01 - 1990-12-01
Holographics International Magazine
Skills
Summary
Sunny Bains is author of Explaining The Future: How to Research, Analyze, and Report on Emerging Technologies, and presenter and producer of the Brains and Machines Podcast on neuromorphic engineering and bio-inspired tech, and teaches at University College London. She is an expert in technical research, analysis, and communication with a particular interest in emerging neuromorphic, robotic, and artificial intelligence technologies. For the first part of her career she developed these skills as a tech journalist at publications like Laser Focus World, Wired, The Economist, New Scientist, and EE Times (who also publish her podcast). She also edited numerous newsletters and other publications across her areas of interest before starting to teach her skills to scientists and engineers around 2000 (UC Berkeley, Imperial College, and now UCL). She currently teaches tech journalism, leads the Strategic Thinking in Engineering and Technology minor in the Faculty of Engineering, and is writing a book about neuromorphic engineering for Oxford University Press.
