Dr. Amit Ashok is an Associate Professor in the College of Optical Sciences and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona and the University of Cape. Before joining the University of Arizona as a faculty, he was a senior research scientist in the research and development division of Omnivision CDM Optics, and worked on novel computational imaging system designs for commercial applications ranging from security to mobile phone cameras. Since joining the academia in 2009, he has served as a Program Chair and a General Chair of OSA’s Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging COSI) conference in 2013 and 2014 respectively. In 2016 he helped launch two SPIE conferences on Computational Imaging CI) and Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-rays ADIX) as a General Chair. He served as the lead editor for a JOSA A feature issue on single molecule imaging in 2016 and currently, serving as a topical editor for the JOSA A journal. Dr. Ashok’s research interests include computational/compressive imaging and sensing, Bayesian inference, statistical optics, and information theory. He has made several key contributions in task-based joint-design framework for computational imaging and information-theoretic system performance measures across several imaging modalitiesning RF to visible/IR and X-ray domains. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, holds several patents, and has been invited to speak at OSA, IEEE, SIAM, SPIE and Gordon research conferences.