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PhD Research Projects

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Current Students

Dean Freestone, enrolled for PhD in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Prof Iven Mareels and Dr David Grayden.
PhD Thesis title: Prediction of Epileptic Seizures.

Andre Peterson, enrolled for MSc in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Prof Iven Mareels and Dr David Grayden.
PhD Thesis title: The Neurodynamics of Epilepsy.

Elma O'Sullivan Greene, enrolled for PhD in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Prof Iven Mareels and Dr David Grayden.
PhD Thesis title: Prediction of Epileptic Seizures.

Daniel Taft, enrolled for PhD in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Department of Otolaryngology at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Prof Iven Mareels, Dr David Grayden, and Prof Richard Dowell.
PhD Thesis title: Cochlear Implant Speech Processing.

Matthieu Gilson, enrolled for PhD in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Prof Doreen Thomas and Dr David Grayden.
PhD Thesis title: Learning in Biological Neural Networks.

Andrea Varsavsky, enrolled for PhD in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Prof Iven Mareels and Dr Margreta Kuijper.
PhD Thesis title: Prediction of Epileptic Seizures.

Michael A. Eager, enrolled for PhD in the Department of Otolaryngology at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Dr David Grayden, Prof Iven Mareels, and Prof Richard Dowell.
PhD Thesis title: Modelling spectral and temporal enhancement of vowel representation in the auditory brainstem.

David Nayagam, enrolled for PhD in the Department of Otolaryngology at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Dr Antonio Paolini, Dr Janine Clarey and Prof. Graeme M. Clark.
PhD Thesis title: Signal detection in noise: Neural coding of auditory information through the ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus.


Completed Degrees

Julien Besson, was awarded his MSc (April 2005) in the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience at The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, jointly supervised with Prof. Wulfram Gerstner and Dr. Hamish Meffin.
MSc Thesis Title: Hebbian Learning Stability from Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity.
MSc Thesis available here (2.1 MB).

Nicolas Hohn, was awarded his MSc (November 2000) in the Department of Otolaryngology at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Prof. Graeme M. Clark.
MSc Thesis Title: Stochastic Resonance in a Neuron Model with Application to the Auditory Pathway.
MSc Thesis available here (1.6 MB).

Levin Kuhlmann, was awarded his BSc (Hons) with 1st Class Honours (July 2000) in the Department of Otolaryngology at The University of Melbourne, jointly supervised with Prof. Graeme M. Clark
BSc Thesis Title: Temporal Coding in the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neuron Model and the Auditory Pathway.
Honours Thesis available here (1.7 MB).




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