Anand Asundi

About

Anand Asundi is currently retired but provides consulting services as needed. In his last position he was CEO and Founding Director of d'Optron Pte Ltd., a spin-off of his research in the field of 3D imaging, measurement and inspection. Prior to this he was a Professor and founding Director of the Centre for Optical and Laser Engineering (COLE) at the Nanyang Technological University from 1996-2019. He was also Prof. of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong from 1983 to 1996. He graduated with a B.Tech and M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and then got his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

He was founding chairman of the Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore and initiated the icOPEN conference series. He is a fellow of SPIE and was on their Board of Directors for 2 years. He is also a Knight of Holography. He is the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Chandra S Vikram Award for Optical Metrology

Employment

• d'Optron Pte Ltd CEO and Director
  2015 - 2025
• Nanyang Technological University Professor and Director COLE
  1996 - 2020
• University of Hongkong Professor
  1983 - 1996

Education

• Stony Brook University PhD
  1977 - 1981

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (600)

• 3D Quantitative Phase Imaging of Human Red Blood Cells
  Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 2024 DOI: 10.1117/12.3023411
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• Emerging tunable window technologies for active transparency tuning
  Applied Physics Reviews 2022 DOI: 10.1063/5.0089856
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• Measurement of acylindrical surface with transport of intensity equation
  Applied Optics 2022 DOI: 10.1364/AO.444870
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• Phase retrieval of two random phase-shifting interferograms using Zernike coefficient extraction network
  Optics Express 2022 DOI: 10.1364/OE.470693
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• Virtual temporal phase-shifting phase extraction using generative adversarial networks
  Applied Optics 2022 DOI: 10.1364/AO.443685
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• Dielectric Elastomer Actuator-Based Multifunctional Smart Window for Transparency Tuning and Noise Absorption
  Actuators 2021 DOI: 10.3390/act10010016
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• Wide-field high-resolution 3D microscopy with Fourier ptychographic diffraction tomography
  Optics and Lasers in Engineering 2020 DOI: 10.1016/J.OPTLASENG.2020.106003
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• Wrapped phase denoising using convolutional neural networks
  Optics and Lasers in Engineering 2020 DOI: 10.1016/J.OPTLASENG.2019.105999
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• Experimental characterization of laser trepanning performance enhanced by water-based ultrasonic assistance
  Optics & Laser Technology 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2018.08.018
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• Investigation of the systematic axial measurement error caused by the space variance effect in digital holography
  Optics and Lasers in Engineering 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2018.06.009
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