About Me

Andrew Perrin grew up in the Boston area with dual passions for history and engineering. Forced to choose, he went with mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsyslvania, which he dearly loved, so much that he stayed for his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in topology optimization and computational fluid dynamics respectively. 

 

After 11 years in Philly, Andrew returned to Boston for his postdoc, then became a private engineering tutor. His research interests gradually turned to new methods for enhancing photos to reveal hidden information, and he developed equipment and methods for finding faded text in old documents using ultraviolet and infrared photography.

 

Always fascinated by gravestones, Andrew first tried his infrared and ultraviolet photography methods to enhance the carvings on the stones, but this proved ineffective. Rethinking the problem, he developed new methods based on 3D point clouds, which are now the topics of his on-going research.