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Antony C.S. Chan, PhD
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Consultant for hire, super-resolution imaging and giga-pixel camera design. Also open to permanent positions.

Services
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**Business verticals:**

* New product development (NPD) and architecture critique of high-throughput
  imaging system involving live cells and stain-free cell culture.

* Compuational image super-resolution / deconvolution algorithm design and
  development; Fourier optics and Poisson statistical modelling;

* Structured illumination for stain-free live cells; quantiative phase microscopy;

* Multi-modal bio-chemical data analysis; model-based analysis pipeline design.

**Business horizontals:**

* End-to-end giga-pixel camera system design, manufacture, and delivery; cost of
  materials ranging from ~$50k to ~$500k. 

* System engineering requirement traceability, analysis, and architecture
  synthesis; opto-mechanical trade studies.

* Scientific/consumer imaging optics & motion control firmware architecture;
  piezo-electric actuator; C++14 no-`malloc` firmware 

* Algorithm porting and GPU acceleration.

Scroll to the `bottom <#contents>`_ to learn more about the technology stack and product portfolio.

Contact me at `Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonycschan/>`_ for details.

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Experiences
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| **Current:** Consultant for hire, super-resolution imaging and giga-pixel camera design
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| **2021--2023** FPGA-accelerated NGS basecalling | High-thoughput image processing | flow cell auto-docking/bething firmware,
| `Element Biosciences <https://www.elementbiosciences.com/>`_
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| **2019--2021** Hack-proof camera phone and firmware R&D to fight pixel manipulation & dis-information 
| `Truepic Inc <https://truepic.com/>`_
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| **2017--2019** Co-inventor of the 96-camera parallel imaging system for cell culture and drug discovery,
| Postdoctoral scholar, `Croucher Fellow <https://scholars.croucher.org.hk/scholars/antony-chi-shing-chan>`_, `Biophotonics Laboratory <http://www.biophot.caltech.edu/>`_
| `California Institute of Technology <https://www.caltech.edu/>`_
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| **2012--2016** All-optical imaging flow cytometer at 1 million frames per second for circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection.
| PhD, `Applied Life Photonics Laboratory <https://www.eee.hku.hk/~alphahku/>`_ 
| `Imaging System Laboratory <https://eee.hku.hk/~elam/>`_
| `The University of Hong Kong <https://www.hku.hk/>`_
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| **Resume**: `Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonycschan/>`_
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Contact
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| Github: https://github.com/antonysigma/
| Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonycschan/

Contents
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   projects
   publications
   electronics
   optics
   code