Anand Asundi
Director, Centre for Optical and Laser Engineering (COLE)
Editor Optics and Lasers in Engineering
Chairman, Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Email: masundi@ntu.edu.sg
Abstract:
Optical methods provide fast, non-contacting and non-invasive characterization, detection, monitoring and manufacturing in a variety of fields ranging from large structures to micro and nano engineering to bio-medical and life science applications. In this talk, some of these developments in our labs will be discussed and demonstrated. Topics covered include a novel Optical methods in microelectronics, 3D profilometers, Digital Holography and applications. Some examples of converting research into products would also be discussed.
Anand Asundi graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay with a B.Tech (Civil Engg.) and a M.Tech (Aeronautical Engg.). Subsequently he received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Following a brief tenure at Virginia Tech., he was with the University of Hong Kong from 1983 to 1996 as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His teaching area is in Solid Mechanics and his research interests are in optical methods in mechanics including micro, nano and bio mechanics, on-line structural health monitoring and fiber optic bio-chemical sensors. He has published extensively and presented invited seminars/talks at various institutions and at international conferences. He is Editor of Optics and Lasers in Engineering and Fellow of SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineers and Institution of Engineers, Singapore and member of the Optical Society of America. He is founding chair of the Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore, Asian Committee on Experimental Mechanics and the Asia Pacific Committee on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology. He has organized numerous conferences and served on the Membership, Scholarship/Awards and Presidential Asian Advisory committees of SPIE and on the Board of Directors of SPIE.