Edmund Optics (EO), a provider of optical components, has hired Nitin Sampat as senior vision solutions engineer, Imaging Business Unit. Nitin joins EO with more than 25 years of experience designing and developing industrial imaging and machine vision systems. In this new role, he will be responsible for selling and supporting Edmund Optics' standard and custom imaging and machine vision products.
Nitin founded an annual conference on Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging (formerly "The Digital Photography conference”), which he also chairs. This conference is one of the 23+ sub-conferences in SPIE/IS&T's Electronic Imaging Symposium. For many years, Nitin has been the symposium chair and has served on the symposium's steering committee.
Prior to joining EO, Nitin was a professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York (US), where he taught and conducted research in the areas of color science, image processing, imaging quality and photography. He has previously worked at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Questra Corporation and Hewlett Packard Research Labs. Nitin has consulted at companies around the globe. He is also one of the founders of Coloryoke, a company offering color matching solutions to the art reproduction market. Nitin holds a master of science degree in imaging and photographic science from RIT and a Diploma in business administration and a bachelor of science in chemistry and physics from The University of Bombay in India.
Nitin is based in Edmund Optics' Cupertino, California US), office.
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