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Academic Staff and Associates

Director: Assoc Prof T I H Brown, BE, PhD
Research Director: Prof D L Morgan, BE, PhD, DSc
Teaching Director: Mr B J Lithgow, BSc, BE, MEngSc
ECSE Dr L N Binh, BE(Hons), PhD
ECSE Dr K P Dabke, ME, PhD, DipEd
ECSE Assoc Prof K C Ng, BSc, PhD, MIEE
Anatomy Dr B W Oakes, MB BS, MD
Physiology Prof U Proske BSc PhD DSc
ECSE Assoc Prof R A Russell, BE, PhD

Director: Assoc Prof T I H Brown, BE, PhD

  • Associate Professor Ian Brown was appointed as the Director of the Centre, funded by the Victorian Education Foundation, and took up that post at the beginning of 1993. Ian has extensive experience in the fields of physiological research, hospital engineering, device evaluation, regulation and standards and engineering management.
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    Research Director: Prof D L Morgan, BE, PhD, DSc

  • Dr David Morgan, a Reader in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Physiology, has a long history of productive research in the biomedical field, much of it in collaboration with members of the Physiology Department and Harvard University. While much of his research continues to be in the field of fundamental muscle mechanics, he also contributes actively to the research and teaching programs of the Centre.
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    Teaching Director: B J Lithgow, BSc, BE, MEngSc

    • Mr Brian Lithgow is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and has research interests in cochlear implant signal processing, neurophysiology of the auditory midbrain, neural modelling and acoustic noise cancellation. He has considerable experience in, consults to and has undertaken research with the clinical sector and has publications on biomedical education and commercialisation of medical research.

    L N Binh, BE(Hons), PhD

    • Dr Le Binh is a Reader in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering. His research interest is in photonics technology with a special interest in laser systems for medical applications.

    K P Dabke, ME, PhD, DipEd

    • Dr Kishor Dabke is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering. His research interests include the analysis of chaos in medical signals.

    K C Ng, BSc, PhD, MIEE

    • Assoc Prof Kim Ng, an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Department, has research interests in electronics, instrumentation and non-contact shape measurement using machine vision, with emphasis on the development of applications in biomedical and industrial areas.

    B W Oakes, MB BS, MD

    • Dr Barry Oakes is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, and Director, Sports Medicine Centre of Victoria. His research activities include clinical biomechanics and application to connective tissue repair, especially ligament and articular cartilage.

    Professor Uwe Proske, BSc, PhD, DSc

    • Professor Proske holds a personal chair in the Physiology Department at Monash. His research interests include the receptors in muscles that provide information to the brain on body position, and the mechanical properties of muscle.

    R A Russell, BE, PhD

    • Assoc Prof Andy Russell is an Assoc Professor in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and a member of the Intelligent Robotics Research Centre within the department. He has a long standing interest in providing robots with a sense of touch. The sensors he has developed can be used to replace human touch where the natural tactile sensory abilities are impaired or to measure physiological qualities such as the distribution of foot pressure.