Founder · Optometrist · Vision scientist · Educator
I'm Dr Ankit Mathur. Two decades in eye care — clinic, research lab and lecture theatre — now spent building AI products that help people make a better next decision.
Selected work
Make complicated work clearer, more practical and easier to act on — whether the person holding the problem is a founder or a clinician.
Saryu
A workflow-planning platform that turns plain-language goals into ordered steps, tool recommendations, ready-to-use prompts and honest estimates of effort.
OptoGuide™
Decision support across assessment, therapeutics, prescribing, referral and professional workflow — designed to sharpen clinical reasoning, never to replace clinical responsibility.
Experience
The thread through every chapter is the same: understand the problem properly, then make the next decision clearer for whoever has to make it.
Saryu & OptoGuide
Building practical AI products for non-technical creators and for clinicians.
Independent, Brisbane
Comprehensive and therapeutic eye care across multiple practices.
Queensland University of Technology
Bringing contemporary clinical practice into optometry education.
Specsavers Lutwyche
Clinical delivery, people, day-to-day operations and business development.
QUT, on an ARC Linkage grant with Carl Zeiss Vision
Led the experimental programme behind peripheral optics and lens-design research.
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad
Retinal imaging and diagnostics, plus multi-centre clinical trial work.
Research & teaching
26 peer-reviewed journal articles and 8 conference publications on how the eye performs away from the line of sight — funded by the Australian Research Council and Carl Zeiss Vision.
Peripheral optics
The first systematic mapping of monochromatic aberrations across the peripheral visual field, and how accommodation, myopia, ageing, orthokeratology, laser surgery and intraocular lenses reshape them.
Visual performance
Acuity and contrast sensitivity under defocus, astigmatic blur and adaptive-optics correction — connecting optical measurement to what someone can genuinely see.
Lens design
An ARC Linkage programme with Carl Zeiss Vision testing whether correcting peripheral refractive error improves real visual performance, delivered as publications and confidential industry reports.
Ocular biometry & disease
Partial coherence interferometry methods for estimating retinal shape, and the effects of type 1 diabetes on biometry, straylight, lens yellowing and accommodation.