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Email

hmeffin@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Education
PhD
University of Sydney
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Adelaide University
ORCID

0000-0003-4307-6841

A/Prof Hamish Meffin

Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering

139 Scholarly works
16 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Next-Generation Encoding of Electrical Stimulation for Sensory Cortical Prostheses
  • 2022

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Retinal Implant With Closed-Loop, Multichannel Stimulation to Improve Visual Acuity
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Determination of the electrical impedance of neural tissue from its microscopic cellular constituents
    DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ab560a
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Global activity shaping strategies for a retinal implant
    DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aaf071
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Electrical receptive fields of retinal ganglion cells: Influence of presynaptic neurons
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005997
  • 2017

    Journal article

    Prediction of cortical responses to simultaneous electrical stimulation of the retina
    DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/14/1/016006
  • 2017

    Research Grant

    Development of a High Acuity, Diamond Retinal Prosthesis
Hamish Meffin

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Emergence of sparse coding, balance and decorrelation from a biologically-grounded spiking neural network model of learning in the primary visual cortex
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013644
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Towards a closed loop retinal prosthesis: measuring electrically evoked retinal responses using large electrodes
    DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/adfc9b
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Characterization of receptive fields in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the tammar wallaby
    DOI: 10.1152/jn.00352.2024
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Feature selectivity and invariance in marsupial primary visual cortex
    DOI: 10.1113/JP285757
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Neural activity shaping in visual prostheses with deep learning
    DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad6186
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Data-driven modelling of visual receptive fields: comparison between the generalized quadratic model and the nonlinear input model
    DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad5d15
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Effect of sparsity on network stability in random neural networks obeying Dale's law
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043132
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Quantifying visual acuity for pre-clinical testing of visual prostheses
    DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac9c95

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