Jason Amsden
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
My area of interest is in the application of computational and compressive techniques to improve spectroscopic instrument design. Spectroscopic measurements are a convolution of the instrument response and the desired spectrum. Conventional spectroscopic instruments are designed such that the instrument response is a delta function and the measurements are essentially the desired spectrum. However, this design approach can limit the spectrometer performance. I use a different approach by designing the system response to maximize parameters of interest such as throughput and resolution, and then computationally deconvolve the system response from the measurements to achieve a spectrum – thus improving instrument performance.
Education
- Ph.D. Boston University, 2008
Positions
- Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering