Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Vengu was a KITP Scholar at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, an associate of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and has held research and teaching positions at UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, and the University of Missouri amongst others. He has been a visiting professor of Physics at IIT Delhi, a Royal Society of Edinburgh visiting professor at Glasgow, an international visiting professor of biophotonics in the Department of Information Engineering at University Degli Studii Brescia, Italy, and a Gian Professor of Physics at IIT Madras. He also served on UNESCO’s International Year of Light planning /organizing committee, is a founding member of the UNESCO ALOP Program and is on the committee for the International Day of Light. He is on the optics advisory board of the International Center for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy , a consultant to the medical devices group of the US FDA , and has represented the United States at two IUPAP general assemblies, Additionally, served as the chair of the US advisory committee for the International Commission on Optics, chair of the committee on international scientific affairs of the APS, member of the Public Policy Committee of APS member of executive committee of the Forum on International Physics, a AAAS Science and technology policy fellow, and a director of the OSA amongst other professional service.

• Clinical Imaging

• Vision Rehabilitation

• Optical Devices

• Technology and Optics

• Optical Systems

• 1985 PhD Optics and Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley

• 1978 MSc Physics, University of Madras, India

• 1976 BSc Physics, University of Madras, India

• 2019 OSA Fellow Lecturer, University College Dublin, Ireland

• 2018 Inaugural speaker, The Dr.S.S.Badrinath Oration, Indian Eye Research Group – Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

• 2017 SPIE Lecturer, Optoelectronics Research Center, University of Southampton, UK

• 2016 Invited Speaker, International Year of Light closing ceremony, Merida,Mexico

• 2015 Invited Speaker, Jerome Wiesner Symposium, University of Michigan; Office of Research, Univ. of Michigan.

• 2015 Best Paper Award, Optronix 2015, Vacouver, BC. IEEE Photonics meeting.

• 2015 Invited Speaker, Heritage of Ibn al Haytham and the Golden Age of Islamic Science, UNESCO, 2015.

• 2014 Saturday Morning Physics Speaker, University of Michigan

• 2013 Keynote speaker, ETOP, Porto, Portugal, July 2013

• 2013 Finalist, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship

• 2013 Visiting Lecturer, Ecole Superiore des Communication, Tunis, Tunisa

• 2013 Visiting Lecturer, Universidad de Valle, Cali, Colomiba

• 2013 Esther Hoffman Beller medal, Optical Society of America

• 2012 Senior Member, IEEE

• 2011 Optics Educator Award, SPIE

• 2015 (ongoing) Co-Chair, Light and Color meeting, SPIE

• 2020-2023 Member-at-large, executive committee, Forum on International Physics, APS

• 2020-2022 Member, History Committee, IEEE

• 2019-2020 Member, Membership and retention committee

• 2020-2023 Membership and Communities committee, SPIE

• 2024-2028 Member at large, Executive committee, Forum on Education, American Physical Society

• Technical Editor/Associate editor of a number of journals, including Optics Letters, Journal of Modern Optics, Clinical Optometry, American Journal of Biomedical Engineering, Optoelectronics and Photonics, Optics and Photonics News, Ophthalmology Research, Asian Journal of Physics, etc.

• Editor of the book series ‘Multidisciplinary and Applied Optics(Taylor and Francis) and on the Editorial Advisory Board of De Gruyter Open Access

• Consultant to FDA (Ophthalmic and Medical Devices)

• Visiting Professor of Biophotonics, Deptment of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (2023-)

• Foreign Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (2023)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science and Technology Policy Fellow (2021 - 2022)

• Technical Advisor, Scope Photonics, Waterloo (2020 - 2022)

• International Visiting Professor of Biophotonics, Dept. of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (2017 - 2020)

• Member, Waterloo Center for Artificial Intelligence (2019-)

• Fellow; American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007-)

• Fellow; American Academy of Optometry (1988-2014)

• Fellow; American Physical Society (2010-)

• Fellow; Royal Society of Arts (2021-)

• Fellow; Institute of Physics, UK (1999-)

• Fellow; Optical Society of America (1998-)

• Fellow; Optical Society of India (2006-)

• Fellow; SPIE- International Society for Optics and Photonics (2005-)

• Fellow; Senior Member, IEEE (2012-)

• Sigma Xi (1988-)

• Cross-appointed with Physics, Systems Design Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering

• OPTOM 106 - Geometrical, Physical and Visual Optics
  • Taught in 2020, 2022
• OPTOM 109 - Visual Perception 1: Perception of Light
  • Taught in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• OPTOM 126 - Fundamentals of Visual Optics
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
• OPTOM 219 - Visual Perception 2: Monocular and Binocular Visual Processes
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
• OPTOM 670 - Vision Science Part 1
  • Taught in 2024
• OPTOM 671 - Vision Science Part 2
  • Taught in 2021, 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Y.Jimez, M.J. Rodriguz-Alvarez, D. Malla, V. Lakshminarayanan, Radiomics, Deep Learning and Breast cancer detection, in: Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Diagnosis, Volume 2: Breast and Bladder Cancer, ed. A.El-Baz, et al Chapter 12, Pages 12-1-12-61, IOP Press, 2022.

• V.Lakshminarayanan, Chamblant Lenses, Astigmatism, and Cylindrical Lenses, Field Guide to Optics Education, Pages 135-139, SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA. 2023.

• Anuradha Narayanan, Krishna Kumar Ramani, Aiswaryah Radhakrishnan, PremNandhini Satgunam, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan and Shrikant R Bharadwaj,”Optometry in India: Vision of Professor Jay M Enoch and its present status” Asian J. Physics,32:127-135, 2023.

• Chouhan, S.; Kalluri Bharat, R.P.; Surya, J.; Mohan, S.; Balaji, J.J.; Viekash, V.K.; Lakshminarayanan, V.; Raman, R. Preliminary Report on Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Biomarkers in Non-Responders and Responders to Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Injection for Diabetic Macular Oedema. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 1735.

• Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, The eikonal equation via adaptive control theory Asian J. Physics, 32:205-208, 2023.

• Elena Alonso-Redondo, Maria L Calvo, and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Experimental determination of the MTF of a diffraction limited image forming system: an approximation to the eye pupil characterization, Asian J. Phyics, 32:149-158, 2023.

• Rishav Bhardwaj, Janarthanam Jothi Balaji, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan,"OW-SLR: overlapping windows on semi-local region for image superresolution," Proc. SPIE 12674, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLVI,1267416. doi: 10.1117/12.2680629

• Bhardwaj, R.; Balaji, J.J.;Lakshminarayanan, V. OW-SLR: Overlapping Windows on Semi-Local Region for.Image Super-Resolution. J.Imaging 2023, 9, 246.

• Yuliana Jiménez-Gaona, María José Rodríguez-Álvarez, Diana Carrión-Figueroa, Darwin Castillo-Malla & Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan (06 Feb 2024): Breast mass regions classification from mammograms using convolutional neural networks and transfer learning., Journal of Modern Optics.

• Shriharshinii Ragotham, J. Jothi Balaji, Rajiv Raman, and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan "A new automated method for grading retinal tessellation in myopic eyes using fundus images", Proc. SPIE 12824, Ophthalmic Technologies XXXIV, 128240R (12 March 2024).