Antony C.S. Chan, PhD#
Consultant for hire, super-resolution imaging and giga-pixel camera design. Also open to permanent positions.
Expertise and Services#
What I do (aka the applications)
New product development (NPD) and prototyping.
High-throughput, super-resolution bio-imaging system & analysis pipeline.
Scientific & industrial camera system hardware & firmware.
Motion control systems for microscope auto-leveling and auto-focusing.
Where I apply (aka the capabilities)
End-to-end system architecture & engineering, e.g. requirement traceability analysis, trade studies, and design thinking.
Firmware development and QC, e.g. C++17, real-time systems, GPU acceleration.
Illumination/imaging optics and imaging hardware design.
Scientific graphical user interface design.
Algorithm design and development, e.g. super-resolution, deconvolution, data analysis.
Algorithm porting and GPU acceleration.
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Contacts#
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Experiences#
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Contents#
- Expertise and services
- High-throughput imaging system POCs and MVPs
- System-level design and architecture review
- Cross-compilation and multi-platform support, software only, C++17
- GPU acceleration and domain-specific language design for scientists
- Low-latency computing, C++17/C++20
- Illumination/imaging optics design
- Instrument control PCB design
- Technical illustration
- Optics
- Professional optics design & fabrication
- Plastic molded microscope lens for 96-well parallel microscope
- 2-Laser illumination engine for whole-plate fluorescence excitation, 7000 milliWatt per plate
- All-optical spatial light modulator for structured illumination at 10 million FPS
- Acousto-optic beam deflection at 1 million sweeps per second for pixel super-resolution
- Amateur optics
- Professional optics design & fabrication
- Software
- Dataset
- Electronics
- Digital circuit and FPGA
- Mixed-signal circuit
- 4-channel Peltier PID cooler for 3.5Watt laser modules, 30W per channel
- Piezo-flexure nano-positioning stage control board
- Precise spin control of BioDVD imaging platform
- 74HC logic board for synchronous frequency control of the acousto-optic deflector
- Line follower robot using pure IC logic for STEM education
- Analog circuit (microwave)
- Technical illustration
- Research
- Main projects
- 96 minimature microscopes for parallel cell microscopy in fluorescence and quantitative phase
- Super-resolution for ultrafast optical time-stretch microscopy
- Fluorescence laser scanning microscopy at ultrahigh speed
- Signal reduction of laser scanning microscopy with compressed sensing
- Arbitrary pattern generation at ultrahigh frame rate (> 10 MHz)
- Side projects
- Main projects
- Publications
- Contact