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 where he has over ten years of experience in research and teaching in optics, signal processing, and computer science. He teaches the Master’s courses of “Digital Signal Processing” and “Computer Vision”.Β
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. More information can be found on Google Scholar and Researchgate.