David Blinder

Background

About David Blinder

David Blinder is a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (ETRO) and a Senior fellow with the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO) and is also affiliated with imec, a leading nanoelectronics and digital technologies research institute. He is the PI of a lab and (co-)supervises 4 PhD students, where he has over ten years of experience in research and teaching in optics, signal processing, and computer science. His research focuses on signal processing in photonics and holography, covering topics such as numerical diffraction, time-frequency analysis, data compression, computational imaging, image and video processing, holographic displays, computer graphics, inverse methods, and high-performance computing. He is the lead editor of the JPEG Pleno Holography standard, the first worldwide standard for the compression of holographic content (JPEG Pleno Part 5 Holography, ISO/IEC 21794-5). He has (co-)authored over 100 international peer-reviewed scientific publications and patent applications and has received multiple awards and honors for his work. He is also a polyglot and a lecturer with over ten years of teaching experience in various courses related to his expertise.