Amit Ashok

Amit Ashok is an Assistant Professor and directs the Intelligent Imaging and Sensing Lab in the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Before joining as a faculty in optical sciences, he was a research faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona from 2009 to 2011 conducting research in the areas of computational imaging and statistical inference. Prior to that he was a senior research scientist in the research and development division of Omnivision CDM Optics from 2007 to 2009 and worked on novel computational imaging system designs for commercial applications ranging from security to mobile phone cameras. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona in 2008 and his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town in 2001. His research interests include computational imaging and sensing, physical optics, statistical inference, and information theory.