Istvan Gyongy

University of Edinburgh

Istvan.Gyongy@ed.ac.uk  

Dr Istvan Gyongy received MEng and PhD degrees from the University of Oxford in 2003 and 2008, respectively.

Following a period in industry, where he worked on processors for smartphones and a cloud-connected activity tracking system for dairy farms, he joined the University of Edinburgh.

In 2018 he was awarded a UKRI Innovation Fellowship, going on to develop an advanced single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) camera in partnership with STMicroelectronics. In addition to camera development, his research explores emerging applications of SPADs and associated signal processing.