Optometrist · Vision scientist · Founder, OptoGuide · Educator
I'm Dr Ankit Mathur. Two decades in eye care — clinic, research lab and lecture theatre — now spent building clinical decision support that helps clinicians make a safer next decision, and keeps them accountable for it.
Selected work
Make complicated work clearer, more practical and easier to act on — whether the person holding the problem is a clinician, a locum, a founder or a kid learning chess.
OptoGuide™
Clinical decision support across assessment, therapeutics, prescribing and referral for Australian optometrists, written by a practising, therapeutically endorsed optometrist and designed so the clinician stays accountable for every decision.
Saryu
A workflow-planning platform that turns plain-language goals into ordered steps, tool recommendations, ready-to-use prompts and honest estimates of effort.
ChessIt
A personal chess coach that turns real games into a daily plan. Stockfish runs in the browser and judges every move; the coach layer explains what went wrong in plain words and rebuilds tomorrow's training around it.
CoverShift
A locum marketplace and back office for Australian healthcare. Clinics post the gap, locums keep one ledger of every shift, rate and practice, and the roster turns itself into GST-ready invoices that export straight to Xero.
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.
OptoGuide (with Saryu and ChessIt alongside)
Building clinical decision support for Australian optometrists: clinical rules, safety architecture, regulatory posture and launch.
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, 8 peer-reviewed conference papers and 21 conference presentations 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.