Biomedical Microelectronics Lab

Education

• PhD, University of New South Wales (2012)
• MBiomedE, University of New South Wales (2007)
• BE (with Honours 1st Class), University of New South Wales (2007)

Selected Grants

• NHMRC Ideas Grant, 2020 - 2023, CI-A
• UNSW internal grants, 2020 (Multiple), CI or Co-I
• ARDC Transformative Data Program Grant, 2019, Co-I
• NHMRC Project Grant, 2015 - 2019, Co-I
• NHMRC CJ Martin Biomedical Fellow, 2013 - 2017, CI-A
• Kavli Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012 - 2013, CI

Prior research experience

I was a Postdoctoral Fellow joint between the labs of Prof. Ken Shepard (Electrical and Biomedical Eng.) and Prof. Rafael Yuste (Biological Science and Neuroscience) 2012 - 2017, bioelectronic tools for brain recording and stimulation. These included (1) microelectronic interfaces for large-scale recording and stimulation of brain tissue, as well as (2) nano-scale probes for neural structures previously too small to access experimentally. I was appointed Associate Research Scientist in 2017, through Jan. 2019.

These efforts were funded in part by competitive Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Kavli Foundation and the NHMRC. These work have appeared in journals such as Nature Communications and Nature Nanotechnology. Related links:

• Bioelectronic Systems Lab
• Yuste Lab

I completed my PhD at UNSW on designing better electrical stimulation strategies for vision prosthesis - devices for restoring sight to the profoundly blind. I was supervised by Scientia Prof. Nigel Lovell (Biomedical Engineering) and Prof. John Morley (Medicine). This was part of the Bionic Vision Australia effort (an ARC Special Research Initiative on Bionic Technologies). I completed my thesis by publications. Related link:

• Ph.D Thesis Elicitation of retinal neural circuitry with vision prosthetic devices

Before academia

I was a research engineer at Capital Markets CRC (CMCRC), where we developed software for identifying prohibited trading behaviours, such as insider trading and market manipulation. The software was used by over 40 stock brokers in 25 markets internationally, including many of the world’s largest banks and investment houses. The system was subsequently purchased by NASDAQ QMX. More about the software Compliance Explorer.

Before CMCRC, I was at National ICT Australia, where I developed models for the ARM microprocessor in higher order logic using the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL. It was part of the L4 Microkernel project at NICTA. Qualcomm, Google and Oracle are some of the mobile solution companies using the L4 microkernel. As of 2012, L4 has been deployed in more than 1.5 billion mobile devices. My supervisor was A/Prof. Gerwin Klein. Some related links:

• L4.verified project
• My supervisor's home page