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Hamish Meffin

Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Visual Neuroscience
Retinal Implants
Cortical Implants
Computational Neuroscience
Neural Modelling
Bionics
Neuroprosthetics
Electrophysiology
Brain Machine Interfaces
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Hamish Meffin

 
Division
Engineering and IT
 
Primary Interest
Neural Implants
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Hamish Meffin.

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Targeting Electrical Stimulation of Neural Tissue

This project aims to develop a platform of mathematical methods for targeting electrical stimulation of neural tissue. The proposed methods ..

2018 - 2020
Completed
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Targeting Electrical Stimulation of Neural Tissue

This project aims to develop a platform of mathematical methods for targeting electrical stimulation of neural tissue. The proposed methods ..

2018 - 2020
Completed
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DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH ACUITY, DIAMOND RETINAL PROSTHESIS

Over recent years our team has developed a retinal implant to restore sight to people with certain types of blindness. With 256 independentl..

2017 - 2020
Completed
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DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH ACUITY, DIAMOND RETINAL PROSTHESIS

Over recent years our team has developed a retinal implant to restore sight to people with certain types of blindness. With 256 independentl..

2017 - 2020
Completed
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NEXT GENERATION CYBERNETICS: LONG TERM CARBON FIBRE DUAL STIMULATION / RECORDING ELECTRODE ARRAYS FOR CLOSED LOOP NEURAL IMPLANTS

Electrodes implanted in the brain have enormous potential for treating a range of conditions from epilepsy to control of prosthetics for pat..

2016 - 2021
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NEXT GENERATION CYBERNETICS: LONG TERM CARBON FIBRE DUAL STIMULATION / RECORDING ELECTRODE ARRAYS FOR CLOSED LOOP NEURAL IMPLANTS

Electrodes implanted in the brain have enormous potential for treating a range of conditions from epilepsy to control of prosthetics for pat..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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NEURO-FEEDBACK FOR IMPROVED EFFICACY OF RETINAL PROSTHESES

Bionic eyes offer the possibility to return sight to the blind. Existing retinal implants are effective at delivering basic visual percepts,..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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NEXT GENERATION CYBERNETICS: LONG TERM CARBON FIBRE DUAL STIMULATION / RECORDING ELECTRODE ARRAYS FOR CLOSED LOOP NEURAL IMPLANTS

Electrodes implanted in the brain have enormous potential for treating a range of conditions from epilepsy to control of prosthetics for pat..

2016 - 2021
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BIONIC VISION AUSTRALIA

Bionic Vision Australia’s retinal implant will provide vision to blind patients suffering fromdegenerative retinal conditions, including age..

2011 - 2015
Completed
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BIONIC VISION AUSTRALIA

Bionic Vision Australia’s retinal implant will provide vision to blind patients suffering fromdegenerative retinal conditions, including age..

2010 - 2016
Completed

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Project Types

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Hamish Meffin.

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High Fidelity Bidirectional Neural Interfacing with Carbon Fiber Microelectrodes Coated with Boron-Doped Carbon Nanowalls: An Acute Study

Maryam A Hejazi, Wei Tong, Alastair Stacey, Shi H Sun, Molis Yunzab, Ali Almasi, Young Jun Jung, Hamish Meffin, Kate Fox, Khatereh Edalati, Athavan Nadarajah, Steven Prawer, Michael R Ibbotson, David J Garrett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advanced Functional Materials

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Mechanisms of Feature Selectivity and Invariance in Primary Visual Cortex.

Ali Almasi, Hamish Meffin, Shaun L Cloherty, Yan Wong, Molis Yunzab, Michael R Ibbotson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cerebral Cortex

Visual object identification requires both selectivity for specific visual features that are important to the object's identity an..

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In vivofeasibility of epiretinal stimulation using ultrananocrystalline diamond electrodes

Mohit N Shivdasani, Mihailo Evans, Owen Burns, Jonathan Yeoh, Penelope J Allen, David AX Nayagam, Joel Villalobos, Carla J Abbott, Chi D Luu, Nicholas L Opie, Anu Sabu, Alexia L Saunders, Michelle McPhedran, Lisa Cardamone, Ceara McGowan, Vanessa Maxim, Richard A Williams, Kate E Fox, Rosemary Cicione, David J Garrett, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Neural Engineering

OBJECTIVE: Due to their increased proximity to retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), epiretinal visual prostheses present the opportunity..

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Minimizing axon bundle activation of retinal ganglion cells with oriented rectangular electrodes.

Wei Tong, Maryam Hejazi, David J Garrett, Timothy Esler, Steven Prawer, Hamish Meffin, Michael Ibbotson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Neural Engineering

OBJECTIVE: Retinal prostheses aim to restore vision in patients with retinal degenerative diseases, such as age-related macular de..

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Stimulation Strategies for Improving the Resolution of Retinal Prostheses.

Wei Tong, Hamish Meffin, David J Garrett, Michael R Ibbotson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Neuroscience

Electrical stimulation using implantable devices with arrays of stimulating electrodes is an emerging therapy for neurological dis..

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Improved visual acuity using a retinal implant and an optimized stimulation strategy

Wei Tong, Melanie Stamp, Nicholas Apollo, Kumaravelu Ganesan, Hamish Meffin, Steven Prawer, David J Garrett, Michael R Ibbotson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Neural Engineering

Objective. Retinal prosthetic devices hold great promise for the treatment of retinal degenerative diseases such as retinitis pigm..

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Hybrid diamond/ carbon fiber microelectrodes enable multimodal electrical/chemical neural interfacing

Maryam A Hejazi, Wei Tong, Alastair Stacey, Artemio Soto-Breceda, Michael R Ibbotson, Molis Yunzab, Matias I Maturana, Ali Almasi, Young Jun Jung, Shi Sun, Hamish Meffin, Jian Fang, Melanie EM Stamp, Kumaravelu Ganesan, Kate Fox, Aaqil Rifai, Athavan Nadarajah, Samira Falahatdoost, Steven Prawer, Nicholas V Apollo, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biomaterials

Implantable medical devices are now in regular use to treat or ameliorate medical conditions, including movement disorders, chroni..

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Determination of the electrical impedance of neural tissue from its microscopic cellular constituents

Omid Monfared, Bahman Tahayori, Dean Freestone, Dragan Nesic, David B Grayden, Hamish Meffin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Neural Engineering

The electrical properties of neural tissue are important in a range of different applications in biomedical engineering and basic ..

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Global activity shaping strategies for a retinal implant

Martin J Spencer, Tatiana Kameneva, David B Grayden, Hamish Meffin, Anthony N Burkitt

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Neural Engineering

Objective. Retinal prostheses provide visual perception via electrical stimulation of the retina using an implanted array of elect..

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Investigating Preferential Activation of Rat Retinal Ganglion Cell Classes with Electrical Stimulation

Molis Yunzab, Artemio Soto-Breceda, Matias Maturana, Hamish Meffin, Tatiana Kameneva, Anthony Burkitt, Michael Ibbotson

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE

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Keyword Analysis

Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Biomedical Engineering
Expanding Knowledge
Neurosciences
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Ophthalmology and Optometry
Clinical (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing
Clinical Sciences

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Faculty Member Of The Organisation Of Computational Neuroscience

Organisation of Computational Neuroscience

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Neuroscience

University of Sydney

Bachelor of Science Majoring in Mathematics & Physics

Adelaide University

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