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2022 Distinguished Alumni Award

College of Science

Jonathan Phillips

MS '99

Vice President of Imaging Science at Imatest


Jonathan Phillips MS ‘99 is VP of Imaging Science at Imatest, a leading company in image quality testing based in Boulder, Colorado that supports camera development for many of the world’s top companies across many industries, including automotive, mobile electronics, security, aerospace, and medical imaging. Prior to joining Imatest, he was the leader of image quality in Google’s Android organization from 2015 to 2021, particularly focused on the Google Pixel camera and display image quality .His experience in Silicon Valley has also included managing the camera image quality lab at NVIDIA, where his work centered on optimizing the Tegra chip ISP for smartphone cameras from 2012 to 2015.Jonathan worked at Kodak from 1990 to 2012 as a key player in the photography transition from analog to digital, switching from processing in the darkroom to working on digital imaging devices and printers. Kodak sponsored his master’s and Ph.D. work in color science at RIT’s Munsell Color Science Laboratory. His undergraduate studies in chemistry and music were at Wheaton College (Illinois). Jonathan is the co-author of numerous technical papers, patents, IEEE and ISO photography standards, and his book, Camera Image Quality Benchmarking.

2022 Distinguished Alumni Award

College of Science

Jonathan Phillips

MS '99

Vice President of Imaging Science at Imatest


Jonathan Phillips MS ‘99 is VP of Imaging Science at Imatest, a leading company in image quality testing based in Boulder, Colorado that supports camera development for many of the world’s top companies across many industries, including automotive, mobile electronics, security, aerospace, and medical imaging. Prior to joining Imatest, he was the leader of image quality in Google’s Android organization from 2015 to 2021, particularly focused on the Google Pixel camera and display image quality .His experience in Silicon Valley has also included managing the camera image quality lab at NVIDIA, where his work centered on optimizing the Tegra chip ISP for smartphone cameras from 2012 to 2015.Jonathan worked at Kodak from 1990 to 2012 as a key player in the photography transition from analog to digital, switching from processing in the darkroom to working on digital imaging devices and printers. Kodak sponsored his master’s and Ph.D. work in color science at RIT’s Munsell Color Science Laboratory. His undergraduate studies in chemistry and music were at Wheaton College (Illinois). Jonathan is the co-author of numerous technical papers, patents, IEEE and ISO photography standards, and his book, Camera Image Quality Benchmarking.