ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies

Deputy Director Karin Verspoor elected a Fellow of ATSE

2024-10-03T13:55:23+00:00

Congratulations to Karin Verspoor for being elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering - AI in Healthcare leader.

Dr Pip Karoly receives NHMRC funding to deliver new epilepsy management strategies

2024-06-21T13:55:23+00:00

Dr Pip Karoly has been awarded a $1.6 million National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding to establish seizure risk forcasting as a clinical standard for epilepsy management.

Prize money donated towards Kirill Kokorin’s research

2024-04-22T13:55:23+00:00

Professor Graeme Clark donates own prize for pioneering research.

University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor Graeme Clark AC has transformed the lives of thousands of people through the multi-channel cochlear implant, the bionic ear. Now ARC ITTC PhD student, Kirill Kokorin, is one of two PhD students who are benefiting from Professor Clark’s passion for scientific discovery, with the hope that they too can one day improve the lives of people with incurable conditions through cutting-edge research.

Professor Timothy Baldwin appointed MBZUAI Provost

2024-04-08T13:55:23+00:00

Congratulations to Professor Timothy Baldwin who has been appointed as the Provost of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Professor Balwin is former Director of the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies and a Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne.

Centre Deputy Director, Professor Karin Verspoor receives 2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Health award

2021-11-16T13:55:23+00:00

Congratulations to Centre Deptuty Director, Professor Karin Verspoor who is one of the successful recipients of the Telstra Health inaugural 2021 Brilliant Women in Digital awards, which recognises and celebrates women in digital health for their outstanding achievements, while raising awareness about the opportunities in the sector and inspiring others to follow their lead.

The 25 award recipients, plus the recipients of a team award, have been recognised for their contributions to mentoring, medical research, technology development, improving health outcomes using digital health, and introducing new digital processes for the delivery of health and aged care. The award recipients work across a range of organisations at the forefront of digital health, from public and private sectors, to universities and research institutions, and at innovative new start-ups.

2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Health

Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin again named as Computational Linguistics Field Leader in The Australian 2021 Research Magazine

2021-11-11T13:55:23+00:00

Congratulations to Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin on again being named Field Leader in Computational Linguistics in The Australian 2021 Research Magazine Engineering & Computer Science Australia’s Research Field Leaders released today. He was amongst 50 scholars named as Australia’s leading researchers in chemical and material sciences - one selected from each of the 50 fields in this discipline. They are the researchers with the highest number of citations from paperrs published in the last five years in the 20 top journals in their field. The University of Melbourne was named as the leading institution in Computational Linguistics. Congratulations to Tim and the Natural Language Processing research group.

The Australian 2021 Research Magazine

Postdoctoral position available: Research Fellow in Brain Computer Interfaces

2021-10-29T13:55:23+00:00

Come and work with us! We are currently advertising for a Research Fellow in Brain Computer Interfaces.

For further information on how to apply and a copy of the position description, please visit:

Research Fellow in Brain Computer Interfaces

Applications close on 19 November 2021 11:55 PM AEDT

Professor David Grayden wins 2021 Melbourne Excellence Award

2021-07-01T13:55:23+00:00

Congratulations to Professor David Grayden and the BioDesign Innovation Program Team for winning the Norman Curry Award for Innovation and Excellence in Educational Programs in the 2021 Melbourne Excellence Awards announced today.

2021 International Seminar Series - Professor Leigh Hochberg, Brown University

2021-06-08T13:55:23+00:00

We are delighted that Professor Leigh Hochberg from Brown University will be presenting our June webinar on Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 10.00 am (AEST).

The webinar topic is: BrainGate: Brain-Computer Interfaces Toward Restoration of Communication and Mobility

Intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCI) are poised to revolutionize our ability torestore lost neurologic functions. The BrainGate research team has been conducting amulti-site pilot clinical trial (IDE) of an iBCI system, seeking to determine the feasibility ofpersons with tetraplegia from cervical spinal cord injury, brainstem stroke, or motorneuron disease controlling external and implanted devices simply by imagining arm orhand movement. Dr. Hochberg will discuss clinical, engineering, and neuroscientificprogress in the ongoing trial, as well as challenges and opportunities for translation toclinical utility.

We hope you are able to join us. Webinar link: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/81604242945?pwd=ajRqLzUyYjE3NlJDK1krVkxrVFdpQT09

Meet our newest team member!

2021-05-06T13:55:23+00:00

Welcome to Reachy Robot, our newest team member! Reachy is assisting our Stream 2 reachers to build a system that would allow the robot’s arm to be controlled via a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI). The system will combine the BCI signal with trajectory information and computer vision data to assist the user in performing reaching and grasping tasks. The goal of the project is to one day help people who have lost control of their upper limb interact with their environment.