Amit Ashok ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Information ------------------- Adress: 230 Electrical and Computer Engineering P. O. Box 210104 Tucson, AZ 85721 Phone: 520 465 4557 Email: ashoka@ece.arizona.edu Website: http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~ashoka Objective: Seeking a full-time research and development position in the area of imaging system design. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Education --------- * Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Aug. 2007(Expected) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Research area: Computational Imaging and Task-Specific Information metrics for Imaging. * M.S. in Electrical Engineering 2001 University of Cape Town, South Africa Thesis Title: Implementation and analysis of a Bayesian approach to multiple-antenna SAR interferometry. * B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering 1998 University of Swaziland, Swaziland. Experience ---------- * Graduate Research Associate Jan. 2003 - present Optical Computing and Processing Lab University of Arizona Designed an ultra-thin imager using PSF engineering for DARPA’s MONTAGE project. Developing Task-Specific Information metric for imaging system design and analysis. Designing imager for Iris-recognition application with task-specific metrics. * Graduate Teaching Assistant Jan. 2002 - May 2002 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Arizona Electrical Engineering Lab course. * Graduate Teaching Assistant Feb. 2001 - Nov. 2001 Department of Electrical Engineering University of Cape Town Electromagnetics and Digital Signal Processing courses. * Graduate Research Assistant Feb. 2001 - Nov. 2001 Department of Electrical Engineering University of Cape Town Radar system design, multiple-antenna interferometric SAR, and real-time optical tracking system simulator. * Graduate Teaching Assistant May 2000 - Aug. 2000 Department of Electrical Engineering University of Cape Town Electrical circuits and Power engineering courses. Relevant Coursework ------------------- Advanced Medical Imaging, Advanced Computational Imaging, Noise in Imaging Systems, Principles of Image Science, Physical Optics, Statistical Optics, Optical Physics and Lasers, Optical Communication Systems, Neural Networks and Information Theory. Skills ------ * Proficient in C/C++ and Matlab. * Lab experience with scientific CCD sensors, lasers point sources, imaging optics and other optical bench equipment. * Developed a High-Performance Computing Cluster system for imaging research. Publications ---------------- 1. Amit Ashok, Pawan Baheti and Mark A. Neifeld, “Task-specific information: an imaging system analysis tool,” to appear in Proc. of Visual Information Processing XVI, Florida, 2007. 2. Amit Ashok and Mark A. Neifeld, “Pseudo-random phase masks for super-resolution imag- ing from sub-pixel shifting,” to appear in Applied Optics, 2007. 3. Mark A. Neifeld, Amit Ashok, and Pawan Baheti, “Task Specific Information for Imaging System Analysis,” to be submitted in JOSA A, 2007. 4. Amit Ashok, Pawan Baheti and Mark A, Neifeld, “Task-specific Information,” Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest Series(OSA), paper FWH4, Rochester, 2006. 5. Amit Ashok and Mark A. Neifeld, “Recent progress on multi-domain optimization for ultrathin cameras,” Invited Talk, Proceedings of SPIE 6232, Intelligent Integrated Mi- crosystems, 62320N, 2006. 6. Amit Ashok and Mark A. Neifeld, “Engineering the Point-Spread-Function for Super- Resolution from Multiple Low-Resolution Sub-Pixel Shifted Frames,” Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest Series(OSA), paper FThU4, Tucson, 2005. 7. Mark A. Neifeld and Amit Ashok, “Imaging using Alternate Point Spread functions: Lenslets with Pseudo-Random Phase Diversity, ” Invited Talk, OSA Topical Meeting: Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI), North Carolina, 2005. 8. Amit Ashok and Mark A. Neifeld, “Information-based analysis of simple incoherent imag- ing systems,” Optics Express,11, pp. 2153-2162, 2003. 9. Amit Ashok and Mark A. Neifeld, “Information-theoretic Capacity of Simple Imaging Systems,” Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest Series (OSA), Tucson, 2003. 10. Mark A. Neifeld and Amit Ashok, “An Information-Based Analysis of Two Single-Detector Imaging Systems,” Proceedings of the 7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences(JCIS),Cary, North Carolina, pp.1404-1407, 2003. 11. Amit Ashok and Andrew J. Wilkinson,“Topographic mapping with multiple antenna SAR interferometry:a Bayesian model-based approach,” Geoscience and Remote Sensing Sym- posium (IGARSS), vol. 5, pp.2058-2060, Sydney, 2001. Awards ------ * International Student Scholarship, University of Cape Town, 1999 and 2000. * Dean’s award for best academic performance, University of Swaziland, 1998. * Vice-Chancellor award for best academic performance, University of Swaziland, 1998. * Sino-Swazi award for best academic performance, University of Swaziland, 1995. Professional Membership ----------------------- * Student member of Optical Society of America(OSA). * Student member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). * Student member of International Society for Optical Engineering(SPIE). References --------- Available on request.