Isabell Kiral-Kornek received her 'Diplom' degree in Electrical Engineering from Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany working on cochlear implants. Her interest in bionics led her to work on the bionic eye for her PhD, where she is developing methods to accentuate features in phosphenated vision as part of the Bionic Vision Australia stimulation strategy group. Time length: 7 minutes, 39 seconds.
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Statt perfekt-geformte runde Lichtpunkte, erscheinen Phosphene haeufig als lang-gezogen, bananen- oder kometenfoermige Lichtpunkte. Wie am Weihnachtsbaum koennen sie auch glitzern und funkeln. Isabell Kiral-Kornek nutzt diese Eigenschaften der Phosphene, um die Wahrnehmung von Menschen, die ein bionisches Auge implantiert bekommen, zu verbessern. Vor allem versucht sie mit langgezogenen Phosphenen Buchstaben darzustellen. Hoeren Sie zu wie Isabell Kiral-Kornek ihre Forschungsarbeit erklaert.
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Felix Aplin completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours at The Australian National University in Canberra. His passion for integrative neuroscience led him to begin his PhD in ophthalmology, where he is looking models of retinal degeneration at the University of Melbourne as part of Bionic Vision Australia. Time length: 15 minutes 39 seconds
Tianruo Guo completed a Bachelor of Engineering with honours at Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 2007 and subsequently went on to complete a Masters of Engineering at the University of New South Wales in 2010. During his Masters, Tianruo worked at cardiac electrophysiology, but his passion in computational neuroscience led him to begin his PhD in 2011, where he is looking at improving stimulation strategies for the clinical visual prostheses at the University of New South Wales as part of Bionic Vision Australia. Time length: 8 minutes and 10 seconds.
Parvin Zarei is a PhD student with the University of Melbourne. She completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering at Azad University of Tehran and a Master in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University. Her interest in how the retina works and her desire to make a difference to the lives of people who are blind led her to do a PhD with Bionic Vision Australia. Parvin's thesis title is "A neural network model of visual cortex for perception of motion transparency". Time length: 8 minutes and 12 seconds.
Lachlan Horne completed a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours at the University of Adelaide. His interest in computer vision led him to begin his PhD through the Australian National University, where he is participating in a NICTA research program as part of Bionic Vision Australia. Time length: 4 minutes, 7 seconds.
Lil Deverell is a PhD student with the University of Melbourne, based at the Centre for Eye Research Australia. She completed a Master of Education at Monash University. She has a teaching background and 20 years’ experience working in the community as an Orientation and Mobility specialist with people who have low vision or blindness. Her interest in orientation and mobility research led her to do a PhD with Bionic Vision Australia. Time length: 20 minutes 48 seconds.
David Feng completed a Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours at the Australian National University in 2012. His interest in computer vision led him to begin his PhD through the Australian National University in 2013, where he is participating in a NICTA research program as part of Bionic Vision Australia. Time length: 3 minutes, 46 seconds
Matias completed a Bachelor of Arts/Science at the University of Melbourne in 2006 and subsequently went on to complete a Masters of Engineering (Electrical) in 2012. During his Masters, Matias worked part-time at Bionic Vision Australia doing computational modelling of the intrinsic properties of retinal ganglion cells. His interest in visual neuroscience led him to begin his PhD in 2013, where he is looking at improving stimulation strategies for the bionic eye implant at the National Vision Research Institute as part of Bionic Vision Australia. Matias has also developed a Bionic Eye App (available at Android and iOS) to simulate what vision with a bionic eye might be like.Time length: 8 minutes and 9 seconds.
Samantha Lichter is a PhD student based in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne. She completed a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Materials Engineering with Honours from Monash University in Melbourne. She has a background in analytical chemistry and materials science and has a passion for medical devices that lead her to begin a PhD at the University of Melbourne in biomedical materials engineering. She is designing an all-diamond encapsulation for the high-acuity device's implanted stimulating chip to prevent moisture getting in and chip components causing an inflammatory response. She aims to use this knowledge to improve patient safety. Listen to Samantha as she explains her research.Time length: 7 minutes, 35 seconds.
Evgeni Sergeev is a PhD student with the Stimulation Strategy group in the Neuro-Engineering Laboratory at the University of Melbourne. He completed a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, combined with a Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (also with Honours) from the University of Western Australia. He has a background in computer vision, but his interest in neuroscience and his dream of helping others make their dreams come true led him to begin a PhD with Bionic Vision Australia in 2011.Time length: 3 minutes 31 seconds.
Calvin Eiber is a PhD student with the Australian Visual Prosthesis group based at the University of New South Wales. He completed a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2010. He has a background in electrical engineering, but his interest in visual neuroscience led him to begin a PhD with Bionic Vision Australia in July of 2011, working on stimulation strategy. Time length: 4 minutes, 35 seconds.
Kerry Halupka is a PhD student with the Neural Engineering Laboratory based in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne. She completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) with Honours and was awarded a university medal from The University of Adelaide in 2011. She has a background in insect vision, but her passion for human vision and bionics led her to begin a PhD at the University of Melbourne in March of 2013. Kerry seeks to understand how pulses from different electrodes interact when stimulated at the same time. She aims to use this knowledge to enhance perception with the bionic eye. Listen to Kerry as she explains her research and tells us what it’s like to do a PhD in bionics.
Time length: 7 minutes, 32 seconds.
Adele Scott is a Research Engineer on the Vision Processing team at NICTA CRL. She is working on the simulated prosthetic vision software used in the orientation and mobility trials. She is also involved in the integration of patient-specific psychophysics data into the team's vision processing algorithms.
Nhan Tran
Dr Nhan Tran is a member of the High-Acuity Device Development team at the University of Melbourne /NICTA VRL. Nhan presented his paper on the prototype 64-electrode retinal stimulator and won second prize at the 33rd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Joel Villalobos
Joel Villalobos is a member of the preclinical program with the Bionics Institute, UoM and NICTA. His research on the Biocompatibility of a Wide-View Bionic Eye has been key to the preclinical device evaluation program. He relocated from Mexico to Melbourne to pursue a career in biomedical engineering.
Lauren Ayton
Lauren is the clinical research coordinator at CERA. The clinical team is responsible for a number of projects, including clinical disease assessments and the development of outcome measures to show improvement after bionic eye implantation. Lauren has also been working with the team to develop selection protocols for our first patient tests.
David Garrett
Dr David Garrett is working on the electrochemical performance / encapsulation and biocompatibility of the retinal implant for the high acuity device at the Melbourne Materials Institute. David's expertise in carbon electrode electrochemistry is being applied to diamond and its use as stimulating electrodes in the high acuity device.
