Jan Bogaerts
Organisation: Gpixel Role: CTO
As image sensors are used in ever more varied applications, there is a continuing push for the best compromise between performance, speed and cost. ‘This results in very different types of sensors for all these applications, e.g. mobile phones, industrial vision, medical applications, scientific and space applications, etc.,’ said Jan Bogaerts, Gpixel’s chief technical officer. He believes the Chinese-headquartered CMOS supplier can develop new and better sensors ‘since we can rely on the worldwide push for technological advancements in the semiconductor industry, not only for CIS
Nicolas Bourg
Organisation: Abbelight Role: CTO and co-founder
Ten years ago, Nicolas Bourg was just starting out as a PhD student in a team at Paris-Saclay University developing a 3D single molecule localisation microscopy (SLLM) nanoscope based on supercritical angle fluorescence, or SAF. Today, he is the chief technical officer and co-founder of Abbelight, working in partnership with Evident (formerly Olympus), ‘one of the big four microscopy companies’. Bourg believes the next step for Abbelight’s researchers is ‘transforming microscopy into SMART microscopy – microscope configuration and imaging
Based in: Cachan, France Education: PhD in biophotonics
modalities which change in function [according to] the sample state, type and structures the user wants to study’. Top of his list of researchers to watch
in the field are Sandrine Lévêque-Fort, Abbelights’s CSO and Bourg’s PhD supervisor, and Professor Emmanuel Fort, Abbelight’s scientific adviser. ‘The biggest challenge’ in SLLM, said
Bourg, ‘will be to image live cells’. You can find Bourg online at
twitter.com/
Bourg_N or
www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas- bourg-23121083/. He plans to attend Focus on Microscopy 2023 and Biophysical Society 2023.
Alexander Braun
Organisation: University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf
Role: Professor of Physics
Determining which elements of optical or image quality used in autonomous driving are actually relevant for its AI-based perception and decision-making software are both an opportunity and challenge in the coming year, believes Alexander Braun. This is especially true in the case of automotive mass production. Braun said: ‘We don’t need a good MTF end-of-line, we need a good traffic sign detection and recognition in the field, and that for one million camera systems per year.’ The challenge, he believes, comes in linking and correlating those optical
Based in: Düsseldorf, Germany Education: PhD in Quantum Optics / Computing, University of Hamburg
features to the actual AI performance, which requires physical-realistic simulation of environmental influences on image quality, such as from temperature, dirt and rain. Braun believes that photonics is
underrated in the public perception: ‘The industry is (and has been) desperately looking for talent, but unfortunately there is a huge gap between what young people find attractive and start studying, and what the industry would like as a optical skill-set.’ You can find Braun online at
linkedin.com/ in/profdralexanderbraun/. He plans to attend Electronic Imaging 2023 and AutoSens 2023.
Based in: Antwerp, Belgium Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering
technologies, but also in other and larger markets for processors, memory, etc’. ‘One example of such technology
breakthrough is 3D stacking of two or more wafers,’ said Bogaerts. While he said this creates opportunities for additional features, increased on-chip processing and bandwidth ‘it also makes the sensor architecture and design process more complex, and thus brings challenges in terms of balancing all these parameters while keeping realistic project schedules'. Bogaerts plans to attend Image Sensors Europe and the 2023 International Image Sensor Workshop.
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