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Surya Kamal

Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Student

Surya is a Ph.D. Candidate in Imaging Science and an alumnus of the MS Physics program at RIT. He works in the NanoImaging Lab with Prof. Richard Hailstone and Prof. Nathan Cahill and studies the wave nature of electrons. Before coming to RIT, he worked as a project associate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and as an intern at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Pune, India in 2016.  He was the President of the SPIE-Optica student chapter at RIT and the Regional Liaison for the Microscopy Society of America from 2020-2022 and is actively involved in organizing events for optics and microscopy education & outreach.  

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585-410-7994
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76-2206

Surya Kamal

Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Student

Surya is a Ph.D. Candidate in Imaging Science and an alumnus of the MS Physics program at RIT. He works in the NanoImaging Lab with Prof. Richard Hailstone and Prof. Nathan Cahill and studies the wave nature of electrons. Before coming to RIT, he worked as a project associate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and as an intern at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Pune, India in 2016.  He was the President of the SPIE-Optica student chapter at RIT and the Regional Liaison for the Microscopy Society of America from 2020-2022 and is actively involved in organizing events for optics and microscopy education & outreach.  

Personal Website


585-410-7994