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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.

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Expertise and Services
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**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.

:ref:`Click here <expertise>` to learn more about the technology stack and product portfolio.

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


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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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   expertise
   optics
   code
   electronics
   typesetting
   projects
   publications
   contact