Ayush Bhandari

Ayush Bhandari is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor level in the UK system) in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, part of the Faculty of Engineering. He holds a PhD from MIT (2018) and has held research positions at leading institutions including INRIA, Nanyang Technological University, and EPFL. He is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (2020–present) and received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant (2024–2029) for his work on computational sensing.

His research focuses on computational sensing, inverse problems, and signal processing with applications in scientific imaging and novel sensors. Key contributions include the Unlimited Sensing Framework, which enables high-dynamic-range imaging and signal acquisition beyond conventional ADC limitations. This work has led to over 10 US patents, including foundational technologies for modulo sampling and HDR reconstruction.

Bhandari has been recognized with multiple awards, including the IEEE Best PhD Dissertation Award (2020), the President's Medal for Outstanding Early Career Researcher at Imperial (2021), and the Frontiers of Science Award (2023). He has delivered keynote speeches at major conferences such as IEEE CVPR, SPIE Photonics West, and the International Congress of Basic Science.

His grants include the ERC Starting Grant (€1.5M) and UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (£1.2M). He collaborates internationally, leading projects in computational radar, MIMO systems, and tomography. His work bridges hardware design and mathematical algorithms, emphasizing co-design principles to achieve breakthrough sensing capabilities.