Vijayakumar Anand received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the American College, Madurai, an M.Tech. in Laser Technology from the College of Engineering, Anna University, India, and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, in 2015. He was awarded the Monbukagakusho Fellowship, in 2010, and the JSPS Fellowship, in 2020, by the Japanese Government. He held a Postdoctoral Position with Ben Gurion University, Israel, between 2015 and 2018, as a recipient of the Planning and Budgeting Committee outstanding postdoctoral fellowship of the Israel Government, in 2015. He was a Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Enterprise fellow at the Optical Sciences Center, Swinburne University of Technology between 2019 and 2021. Since 2022, he has been ERA Chair and Associate Professor of Computational Imaging at the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor with the Optical Sciences Center, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is an Editorial board member of Nature Springer Applied Physics B, and Chinese Optics Letters and Applied Optics journals of Optica. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His current research interests include computational optics, imaging, digital holography, diffractive optics, and microfabrication.