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ERA CIPHR
Chair: Prof.
Vijayakumar Anand |
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Prof. Vijayakumar Anand received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in 2015. He was a PBC outstanding postdoctoral fellow at Ben Gurion University, Israel from 2015-2018. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise Fellow (Nanophotonics Fellow) at Swinburne University, Australia. He started his position as Associate Professor at University of Tartu in 2022. He has published more than 100 journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. He is also an author of a bestselling textbook on Design and Fabrication of Diffractive Optical Elements with MATLAB, published by SPIE press. He has been elected to the editorial board of Nature Springer Applied Physics B: Laser and Optics and Chinese Optics Letters. His current research interests include computational optics, imaging, digital holography, diffractive optics, and microfabrication.
For more information about his articles in Google Scholar. |
Visiting Professor: Prof. Joseph Rosen |
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Prof. Joseph Rosen. Joseph Rosen is a Benjamin
H. Swig Professor of Optoelectronics with the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He received his BSc,
MSc, and DSc degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology in 1984, 1987, and 1992, respectively. He is a fellow
of OPTICA (Formerly the Optical Society of America) and the International
Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). His research interests include digital
holography, optical microscopy, diffractive optics, interferometry, statistical
optics, biomedical optics, optical computing, and image processing. He has
co-authored more than 250 book chapters, scientific journal articles, patents
and conference publications. For more information about his articles on Google Scholar |
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Senior Researcher: Dr. Amudhavel Jayavel |
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Dr. Amudhavel Jayavel received
his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pondicherry
Public Central University, India in 2015. He worked as an Assistant Professor
(Senior) cum Assistant Director of Digital Outreach in the School of Computing
Science and Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, India. He started his position as a Senior Researcher at the University
of Tartu in June 2022. His research outcome includes 100+ indexed scholarly
publications with more than 800+ citations, in peer-reviewed Scopus & SCI
indexing reputed journals like IEEE, ACM, Springer link, Elsevier, etc. His current research interests include Computer
Vision, Deep Learning, and Quantum Machine Learning.
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Researcher in
Computational imaging: Dr. Viktor Palm |
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Viktor Palm received
his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has held different
positions at the Institute of Physics, including Senior researcher, Specialist,
etc. in the Laboratory of Laser spectroscopy. He has joined our team as a Research
fellow in Computational imaging. He is an experimentalist; optics and photonics
are the focus of his 40 years of research at the Institute of Physics. He has published
more than 40 journal articles.
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Junior Research fellow:
Andrei Ioan Bleahu |
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Andrei Loan Bleahu
joined as a junior research fellow and doctoral student. He holds two master's
degrees, one in semiotics from the University of Tartu and one in physics from
the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. His areas of interest are
optoelectronics and photonics.
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| Junior Research fellow: Shivasubramanian Gopinath |
Shivasubramanian Gopinath joined as a junior research fellow and doctoral student. He received his master's degree in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. His areas of interest are computational imaging, electronics, and optics. |
| Junior Research fellow: Agnes Pristy Xavier |
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Agnes Pristy Xavier joined as a junior research fellow and doctoral student. She received her master's degree in Physics from Fatima College affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, India. Her areas of interest are computational imaging, electronics, and optics.
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Junior Research Fellow: Francis Gracy Arockiaraj |
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Francis Gracy Arockiaraj joined as a dual Ph.D. student and junior research fellow. She will pursue her doctoral studies for the first two years with Prof. Vijayakumar Anand, CIPHR group, University of Tartu, and the following two years with Prof. Joseph Rosen, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She obtained her Master's in Physics from American College affiliated with Madurai Kamaraj University, India. Her areas of interest are computational imaging, electronics, and optics. . |
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Project Coordinator: Prof. Kaido Reivelt |
| Prof. Kaido Reivelt defended his Ph.D. in
University of Tartu. (optics and spectroscopy) in 2003. He defended
his dissertation under the supervision of Academician Peeter Saari. He was an extraordinary researcher at the
Institute of Physics, University of Tartu. Since 2005 he was the director of
studies at the University of Tartu Institute of Physics. He works in
the field of wave optics with propagation-invariant wave fields ( X-wave ).
Kaido Reivelt is the coordinator of the environmental program GLOBE Estonia. For more information please click https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaido_Reivelt |
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Project Manager: Tiia Lillemaa
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Tiia Lillemaa is a Project Manager in University of
Tartu with more than 20 years of project and human resources management
experience in FP7, H2020, ESA, and national funding. Last two years she worked
for the Grant Office in the University of Tartu as Foreign Funds Coordinator of H2020
and Horizon Europe projects. She has been involved in recruiting incoming
researchers since 2008. From 2015 to 2020 she was an EURAXESS network
coordinator in the Tartu Observatory. She have organized lots of international
seminars, training events and conferences for researchers over last 20 years.
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| Research manager: Aravind Simon. JR |
Mr. Aravind Simon received his
Masters's degree in Computer Applications from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,
India in 2005. He held many positions of importance such as the Vice-Principal
of St. Joseph Institute of Information Technology and Deputy Controller of Examinations
at St. Joseph University of Tanzania until January 2022. He started his new position as
the research manager of the ERA Chair project in March 2022. He is interested in
deep learning, software development, and administration.
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