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Ashok Veeraraghavan is a prominent researcher whose work spans computational imaging, computer vision, and robotic perception, with particular expertise in solving complex visual recognition problems in challenging real-world environments. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to robotic bin-picking, where his 2012 paper on fast object localization and pose estimation in heavy clutter garnered nearly 200 citations, establishing foundational techniques for industrial automation. Building on earlier work with multi-flash camera systems, Veeraraghavan developed novel hardware-software approaches to detect and localize objects — even specular or textureless ones — that confound conventional vision systems. His research extends into computational optics and depth sensing, including innovative work on light field extensions to time-of-flight imaging and privacy-preserving passive depth estimation through learned phase masks. More recently, he has pushed the boundaries of lensless camera design, exploring ultra-thin optics for robotics and AR/VR applications, and applied deep learning to temporal video understanding and surgical tool tracking. Across his career, Veeraraghavan demonstrates a consistent ability to bridge fundamental optical principles with practical machine vision challenges, making meaningful contributions to robotics, medical imaging, and computational photography.