Atul Ingle

Imagine a camera with orders of magnitude higher dynamic range than the human eye. Imagine a camera that can capture laser-scan quality 3D structures from several miles away. Imagine a camera that can “see” inside the human body without invasive surgical procedures.

I design cameras of the future that can visualize structures and phenomena that are otherwise invisible to the human eye.

My research is in the field of computational imaging, at the intersection of optics, image sensors, signal processing, and machine learning. Recently, I have been working with single-photon avalanche diodes, an extremely sensitive sensor technology capable of detecting ultra-low intensity light, down to individual photons.

This technology has implications for myriad applications — from astronomy to microscopy, consumer photography to medical imaging, from autonomous driving to industrial machine vision.