Professor Andre van Schaik

Professor Andre van Schaik

Director, International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems and DAP, Master of Neuromorphic Engineering,
International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems

Research Professor, Bioelectronics & Neuroscience,
International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems

Biography

André van Schaik received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1998. In 1998 he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of Sydney, funded by fellowship from the Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams memorial foundation. In 1999 he became a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney and promoted to Reader in 2004. In 2011 André became a research professor at UWS. His research focuses on three main areas: neuromorphic engineering, bioelectronics, and neuroscience. He was identified as a world leader in neuromorphic engineering research in May 2006 by an independent article in IEEE Spectrum, the IEEE largest circulation magazine. He has authored more than 100 papers and is an inventor of more than 30 patents. He is a founder of three start-up companies: VAST Audio, Personal Audio, and Heard Systems.

This information has been contributed by Professor van Schaik.

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Twente

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow IEEE (2014)

Awards

  • ARC Australian Research Fellow 2003-01-01
  • ARC QEII Fellow 2008-01-01

Interests

  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Electronic Circuit Design
  • Integrated Circuit Design
  • Neuromorphic Engineering
  • Neurophysiology
  • Neuroscience

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems
  • International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems

Committees

  • MARCS Institute

Contact

Email: A.VanSchaik@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone: (02) 47360 668
Mobile: 0478670044
Location: BA.2.02
Penrith (Werrington South)

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Publications

Books

  • Schaik, A. and Linares-Barranco, B. (2021), 'Neuromorphic Engineering Editors' Pick 2021', : Frontiers Media 9782889711611.

Chapters in Books

  • Lehmann, T. and van Schaik, F. (2018), 'Implantable hearing interfaces', Living Machines: A Handbook of Research in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Oxford University Press 9780199674923.
  • van Schaik, A. and Hamilton, T. (2015), 'Silicon cochlea building blocks', Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems, Wiley & Sons 9781118927601.
  • van Schaik, A., Hamilton, T. and Liu, S. (2015), 'Silicon cochleas', Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems, Wiley & Sons 9781118927601.
  • Kan, A., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'Psychoacoustic evaluation of different methods for creating individualized, headphone-presented virtual auditory space from B-format room impulse responses ', Principles and Applications of Spatial Hearing, World Scientific 9789814313872.
  • Gargiulo, G., Bifulco, P., Calvo, R., Romano, M., Ruffo, M., Shephard, R., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., McEwan, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'Giga-Ohm High-Impedance FET Input Amplifiers for Dry Electrode Biosensor Circuits and Systems', Integrated Microsystems: Electronics, Photonics, and Biotechnology, Taylor & Francis Inc 9781439836200.
  • Gargiulo, G., Bifulco, P., Calvo, R., Romano, M., Ruffo, M., Shephard, R., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., McEwan, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'Giga-Ohm High-Impedance FET Input Amplifiers for Dry Electrode Biosensor Circuits and Systems', Integrated Microsystems: Electronics, Photonics, and Biotechnology, Taylor & Francis Inc 9781439836200.
  • Ruffo, M., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., Gargiulo, G., McEwan, A., Sullivan, C., Bifulco, P., Romano, M., Shephard, R. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'Non-invasive foetal monitoring with a combined ECG - PCG system', Biomedical Engineering, Trends in Electronics, Communications and Software, Intech 9789533074757.
  • Gargiulo, G., Bifulco, P., Calvo, R., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., Mcewan, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Non-invasive electronic biosensor circuits and systems', Intelligent and biosensors, InTech 9789537619589.
  • Van Schaik, A., Hamilton, T. and Jin, C. (2010), 'Silicon models of the auditory pathway', Springer handbook of auditory research: computational models of the auditory system, Springer 9781441913708.

Journal Articles

  • Mehrabi, A., Bethi, Y., Schaik, A. and Afshar, S. (2023), 'An optimized multi-layer spiking neural network implementation in FPGA without multipliers', Procedia Computer Science, vol 222 , pp 407 - 414.
  • Ralph, N., Marcireau, A., Afshar, S., Tothill, N., Schaik, A. and Cohen, G. (2023), 'Astrometric calibration and source characterisation of the latest generation neuromorphic event-based cameras for space imaging', Astrodynamics, vol 7, no 4 , pp 415 - 443.
  • Xu, Y., Perera, S., Bethi, Y., Afshar, S. and Schaik, A. (2023), 'Event-driven spectrotemporal feature extraction and classification using a silicon cochlea model', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 17 .
  • Phillip, P., Jainwal, K., Schaik, A. and Thakur, C. (2023), '[In press] Tau-cell-based analog silicon retina with spatio- temporal filtering and contrast gain control', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, .
  • Islam, M., Xu, Y., Monk, T., Afshar, S. and Schaik, A. (2022), 'Noise-robust text-dependent speaker identification using cochlear models', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 151, no 1 , pp 500 - 516.
  • Dennler, N., Rastogi, S., Fonollosa, J., Schaik, A. and Schmuker, M. (2022), 'Drift in a popular metal oxide sensor dataset reveals limitations for gas classification benchmarks', Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol 361 .
  • Monk, T. and Schaik, A. (2022), 'Martingales and the fixation time of evolutionary graphs with arbitrary dimensionality', Royal Society Open Science, vol 9, no 5 .
  • Milde, M., Afshar, S., Xu, Y., Marcireau, A., Joubert, D., Ramesh, B., Bethi, Y., Ralph, N., El Arja, S., Dennler, N., Schaik, A. and Cohen, G. (2022), 'Neuromorphic engineering needs closed-loop benchmarks', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 16 .
  • Ralph, N., Joubert, D., Jolley, A., Afshar, S., Tothill, N., Schaik, A. and Cohen, G. (2022), 'Real-time event-based unsupervised feature consolidation and tracking for space situational awareness', Frontiers in Naeuroscience, vol 16 .
  • Bethi, Y., Xu, Y., Cohen, G., Van Schaik, A. and Afshar, S. (2022), 'An optimized deep spiking neural network architecture without gradients', IEEE Access, vol 10 , pp 97912 - 97929.
  • Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Wang, R., Cohen, G., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T. and Schaik, A. (2021), 'A biologically inspired sound localisation system using a silicon cochlea pair', Applied Sciences, vol 11, no 4 .
  • Joubert, D., Marcireau, A., Ralph, N., Jolley, A., Schaik, A. and Cohen, G. (2021), 'Event camera simulator improvements via characterized parameters', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 15 .
  • Krishna, A., Schaik, A. and Thakur, C. (2021), 'FPGA implementation of particle filters for robotic source localization', IEEE Access, vol 9 , pp 98185 - 98203.
  • Chellappa, R., Theodoridis, S. and Schaik, A. (2021), 'Advances in machine learning and deep neural networks', Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 109, no 5 , pp 607 - 611.
  • Monk, T. and Schaik, A. (2021), 'Martingales and the characteristic functions of absorption time on bipartite graphs', Royal Society Open Science, vol 8, no 10 .
  • Afshar, S., Ralph, N., Xu, Y., Tapson, J., Schaik, A. and Cohen, G. (2020), 'Event-based feature extraction using adaptive selection thresholds', Sensors, vol 20, no 6 .
  • Haessig, G., Milde, M., Aceituno, P., Oubari, O., Knight, J., Schaik, A., Benosman, R. and Indiveri, G. (2020), 'Event-based computation for touch localization based on precise spike timing', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 14 .
  • Afshar, S., Nicholson, A., Schaik, A. and Cohen, G. (2020), 'Event-based object detection and tracking for space situational awareness', IEEE Sensors Journal, vol 20, no 24 , pp 15117 - 15132.
  • Afshar, S., Hamilton, T., Davis, L., Schaik, A. and Delic, D. (2020), 'Event-based processing of single photon avalanche diode sensors', IEEE Sensors Journal, vol 20, no 14 , pp 7677 - 7691.
  • Monk, T. and Schaik, A. (2020), 'Wald's martingale and the conditional distributions of absorption time in the Moran process', Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol 476, no 2241 .
  • Karpul, D., McIntyre, S., Schaik, A., Breen, P. and Heckmann, J. (2019), 'Vibrotactile sensitivity of patients with HIV-related sensory neuropathy : an exploratory study', Brain and Behavior, vol 9, no 1 .
  • Singh, R., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Denham, S. and Schaik, A. (2019), 'CAR-Lite : a multi-rate cochlear model on FPGA for spike-based sound encoding', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol 66, no 5 , pp 1805 - 1817.
  • Afshar, S., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., van Schaik, F. and Cohen, G. (2019), 'Investigation of event-based surfaces for high-speed detection, unsupervised feature extraction, and object recognition', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12 .
  • Lammie, C., Hamilton, T., Schaik, A. and Azghadi, M. (2019), 'Efficient FPGA implementations of pair and triplet-based STDP for neuromorphic architectures', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol 66, no 4 , pp 1558 - 1570.
  • Cohen, G., Afshar, S., Morreale, B., Bessell, T., Wabnitz, A., Rutten, M. and Schaik, A. (2019), 'Event-based sensing for Space Situational Awareness', Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, vol 66, no 2 , pp 125 - 141.
  • Gupta, S., Kumar, P., Paul, T., Schaik, A., Ghosh, A. and Thakur, C. (2019), 'Low power, CMOS-MoS2 memtransistor based neuromorphic hybrid architecture for wake-up systems', Scientific Reports, vol 9, no 1 .
  • Carter, A., Richards, L., Apthorp, D., Azghadi, M., Badcock, D., Balleine, B., Bekkers, J., Berk, M., Bourne, J., Bradley, A., Breakspear, M., Brichta, A., Carter, O., Castles, A., Chakli, K., Cohen-Woods, S., Conn, S., Cornish, J., Cornish, K., De Zubicaray, G., Egan, G., Enticott, P., Fitzgibbon, B., Forlini, C., Fornito, A., Griffiths, L., Gullifer, J., Hall, W., Halliday, G., Hannan, A., Harrer, S., Harvey, A., Hatherly, H., Hickie, I., Kennett, J., Kiernan, M., Kilpatrick, T., Kiral-Kornek, I., Korgaonkar, M., Lawrence, A., Leventer, R., Levy, N., Licinio, J., Lovell, N., Mackellar, G., Malcolm, L., Mason, A., Mattingley, J., Medland, S., Michie, P., Nithianantharajah, J., Parker, J., Payne, J., Poole-Warren, L., Sah, P., Sarnyai, Z., Schofield, P., Shimoni, O., Shum, D., Silk, T., Slee, M., Smith, A., Soulis, T., Sriram, S., Stuart, G., Tapson, J., Thompson, M., Schaik, A. and et al, .. (2019), 'A neuroethics framework for the Australian Brain Initiative', Neuron, vol 101, no 3 , pp 365 - 369.
  • Cohen, G., Afshar, S., Orchard, G., Tapson, J., Benosman, R. and van Schaik, A. (2018), 'Spatial and temporal downsampling in event-based visual classification', IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol 29, no 10 , pp 5030 - 5044.
  • Ahmadi, F., Noorian, F., Novakovic, D. and van Schaik, A. (2018), 'A pneumatic bionic voice prosthesis : pre-clinical trials of controlling the voice onset and offset', PLoS One, vol 13, no 2 .
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Singh, R., Hamilton, T., Wang, R. and van Schaik, A. (2018), 'A FPGA implementation of the CAR-FAC cochlear model', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12, no APR .
  • Thakur, C., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Etienne-Cummings, R., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, F. (2018), 'An analogue neuromorphic co-processor that utilizes device mismatch for learning applications', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol 65, no 4 , pp 1174 - 1184.
  • Wang, R. and Schaik, A. (2018), 'Breaking Liebig's law : an advanced multipurpose neuromorphic engine', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12 .
  • Wang, R., Thakur, C. and Schaik, A. (2018), 'An FPGA-based massively parallel neuromorphic cortex simulator', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12 .
  • Bellot-Saez, A., Cohen, G., Schaik, A., Ooi, L., Morley, J. and Buskila, Y. (2018), 'Astrocytic modulation of cortical oscillations', Scientific Reports, vol 8 .
  • Cameron, M., Kekesi, O., Morley, J., Bellot Saez, A., Kueh, S., Breen, P., van Schaik, A., Tapson, J. and Buskila, Y. (2017), 'Prolonged incubation of acute neuronal tissue for electrophysiology and calcium-imaging', Journal of Visualized Experiments, vol 120 .
  • Wang, R., Thakur, C., Cohen, G., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2017), 'Neuromorphic hardware architecture using the neural engineering framework for pattern recognition', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol 11, no 3 , pp 574 - 584.
  • Karpul, D., Cohen, G., Gargiulo, G., van Schaik, A., McIntyre, S. and Breen, P. (2017), 'Low-power transcutaneous current stimulator for wearable applications', BioMedical Engineering Online, vol 16, no 1 .
  • Thakur, C., Afshar, S., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'Bayesian estimation and inference using stochastic electronics', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 10 .
  • Cohen, G., Orchard, G., Leng, S., Tapson, J., Benosman, R. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'Skimming digits : neuromorphic classification of spike-encoded images', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 10 .
  • Cameron, M., Kekesi, O., Morley, J., Tapson, J., Breen, P., van Schaik, A. and Buskila, Y. (2016), 'Calcium imaging of AM dyes following prolonged incubation in acute neuronal tissue', PLoS One, vol 11, no 5 , pp 1 - 13.
  • Kasi, P., Wright, J., Khamis, H., Birznieks, I. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'The Bayesian decoding of force stimuli from slowly adapting type I fibers in humans', PLoS One, vol 11, no 4 .
  • Wright, J., Macefield, V., van Schaik, A. and Tapson, J. (2016), 'A review of control strategies in closed-loop neuroprosthetic systems', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 10 , pp 312 - .
  • Thakur, C., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'A low power trainable neuromorphic integrated circuit that is tolerant to device mismatch', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol 63, no 2 , pp 211 - 221.
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A neuromorphic implementation of mutliple spike-timing synaptic plasticity rules for large-scale neural networks', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 9 .
  • Tapson, J., Cohen, G. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'ELM solutions for event-based systems', Neurocomputing, vol 149, no pt. A , pp 435 - 442.
  • van Schaik, A. and Tapson, J. (2015), 'Online and adaptive pseudoinverse solutions for ELM weights', Neurocomputing, vol 149, no pt. A , pp 233 - 238.
  • Afshar, S., George, L., Thakur, C., Tapson, J., van Schaik, A., De Chazal, P. and Hamilton, T. (2015), 'Turn down that noise : synaptic encoding of afferent SNR in a single spiking neuron', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol 9, no 2 , pp 188 - 196.
  • Thakur, C., Wang, R., Afshar, S., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., Shamma, S. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'Sound stream segregation : a neuromorphic approach to solve the 'cocktail party problem' in real-time', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 9 .
  • McDonnell, M., Tissera, M., Vladusich, T., van Schaik, A. and Tapson, J. (2015), 'Fast, simple and accurate handwritten digit classification by training shallow neural network classifiers with the 'Extreme Learning Machine' algorithm', PLoS One, vol 10, no 8 .
  • Jin, C., Guillon, P., Epain, N., Zolfaghari, R., Van Schaik, A., Tew, A., Hetherington, C. and Thorpe, J. (2014), 'Creating the Sydney York Morphological and Acoustic Recordings of Ears database', IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol 16, no 1 , pp 37 - 46.
  • Hamilton, T., Afshar, S., Van Schaik, A. and Tapson, J. (2014), 'Stochastic electronics : a neuro-inspired design paradigm for integrated circuits', Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, vol 102, no 5 , pp 843 - 859.
  • Buskila, Y., Breen, P., Tapson, J., Van Schaik, A., Barton, M. and Morley, J. (2014), 'Extending the viability of acute brain slices', Scientific Reports, vol 4 .
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2014), 'A mixed-signal implementation of a polychronous spiking neural network with delay adaption', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 8, no 51 .
  • Kuhlmann, L., Hauser-Raspe, M., Manton, J., Grayden, D., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2014), 'Approximate, computationally efficient online learning in Bayesian spiking neurons', Neural Computation, vol 26, no 3 , pp 472 - 496.
  • Afshar, S., George, L., Tapson, J., van Schaik, A. and Hamilton, T. (2014), 'Racing to learn : statistical inference and learning in a single spiking neuron with adaptive kernels', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 8, no Nov .
  • Delbruck, T., van Schaik, A. and Hasler, J. (2014), 'Research topic : neuromorphic engineering systems and applications. A snapshot of neuromorphic systems engineering', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 8, no Dec .
  • Liu, S., van Schaik, A., Minch, B. and Delbruck, T. (2014), 'Asynchronous binaural spatial audition sensor with 2?64?4 channel output', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol 8, no 4 , pp 453 - 464.
  • Gargiulo, G., McEwan, A., Bifulco, P., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., Tapson, J., Thiagalingam, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'Towards true unipolar bio-potential recording : a preliminary result for ECG', Physiological Measurement, vol 34, no 1 , pp 1 - 7.
  • Wang, R., Cohen, G., Stiefel, K., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'An FPGA implementation of a polychronous spiking neural network with delay adaptation', Frontiers in Neuroscience, , no FEB .
  • Stiefel, K., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'Temporal order detection and coding in nervous systems', Neural Computation, vol 25, no 2 , pp 510 - 531.
  • Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'Learning the pseudoinverse solution to network weights', Neural Networks, vol 45 , pp 94 - 100.
  • Tapson, J., Cohen, G., Afshar, S., Stiefel, K., Buskila, Y., Wang, R., Hamilton, T. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'Synthesis of neural networks for spatio-temporal spike pattern recognition and processing', Frontiers in Neuroscience, , no 7 .
  • Buskila, Y., Morley, J., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'The adaptation of spike backpropagation delays in cortical neurons', Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, vol 7 , pp 1 - 9.
  • Gargiulo, G., McEwan, A., Bifulco, P., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., Tapson, J., Thiagalingam, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'Towards true unipolar ECG recording without the Wilson central terminal (preliminary results)', Physiological Measurement, vol 34, no 9 , pp 991 - 1012.
  • Afshar, S., Cohen, G., Wang, R., Van Schaik, A., Tapson, J., Lehmann, T. and Hamilton, T. (2013), 'The ripple pond : enabling spiking networks to see', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 7 .
  • Gargiulo, G., Thiagalingam, A., McEwan, A., Cesarelli, M., Bifulco, P., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2013), 'True unipolar ECG leads recording (without the use of WCT)', Heart, Lung and Circulation, vol 22, no Suppl. 1 , pp 102 - 102.
  • Gargiulo, G., Mohamed, A., McEwan, A., Bifulco, P., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., Ruffo, M., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2012), 'Investigating the role of combined acoustic-visual feedback in one-dimensional synchronous brain computer interfaces, a preliminary study', Medical Devices : Evidence and Research, vol 5, no 1 , pp 81 - 88.
  • Chan, V., Jin, C. and van Schaik, A. (2012), 'Neuromorphic audio-visual sensor fusion on a sound-localizing robot', Frontiers in Neuroscience, , no FEB .
  • Ang, C., McEwan, A., van Schaik, A., Jin, C. and Leong, P. (2012), 'FPGA implementation of biologically-inspired auto-associative memory', Electronics Letters, vol 48, no 3 , pp 148 - 149.
  • Nasehi Tehrani, J., McEwan, A., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2012), 'L1 regularization method in electrical impedance tomography by using the L1-curve (Pareto frontier curve)', Applied Mathematical Modelling, vol 36, no 3 , pp 1095 - 1105.
  • Gargiulo, G., Cohen, G., McEwan, A., Oh, T., Mohamed, A., Tapson, J., Nguyen, D., Van Schaik, A. and Wabnitz, A. (2012), 'Active electrode design suitable for simultaneous EIT and EEG', Electronics Letters, vol 48, no 25 , pp 1583 - 1584.
  • Gargiulo, G., Shephard, R., Tapson, J., McEwan, A., Bifulco, P., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., Al-Ani, A., Wang, N. and Van Schaik, A. (2012), 'Pregnancy detection and monitoring in cattle via combined foetus electrocardiogram and phonocardiogram signal processing', BMC Veterinary Research, vol 8, no 164 , pp 1 - 10.
  • Best, V., Carlile, S., Kopco, N. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'Localization in speech mixtures by listeners with hearing loss', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 129, no 5 , pp 210 - 215.
  • Indiveri, G., Linares-Barranco, B., Hamilton, T., Van Schaik, A., Etienne-Cummings, R., Delbruck, T., Liu, S., Dudek, P., Hafliger, P., Renaud, S., Schemmel, J., Cauwenberghs, G., Arthur, J., Hynna, K., Folowosele, F., Saighi, S., Serrano-Gotarredona, T., Wijekoon, J., Wang, Y. and Boahen, K. (2011), 'Neuromorphic Silicon Neuron Circuits', Frontiers in Neuroscience, , no MAY .
  • Parthy, A., Epain, N., van Schaik, A. and Jin, C. (2011), 'Comparison of the measured and theoretical performance of a broadband circular microphone array', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 130, no 6 , pp 3827 - 3837.
  • Gargiulo, G., Ruffo, M., Bifulco, P., Cesarelli, M., Calvo, R., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'An ultra-high input impedance ECG amplifier for long term monitoring of athletes', Medical Devices: Evidence and Research, vol 3, no 3 , pp 1 - 9.
  • Tehrani, J., Anderson, C., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A., Holder, D. and Mcewan, A. (2010), 'Feasibility of electrical impedance tomography in haemorrhagic stroke treatment using adaptive mesh', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol 224 .
  • Mcewan, A., Tapson, J., Van Schaik, A. and Holder, D. (2010), 'Spread Spectrum EIT by code devision multiplexing', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol 224, no 1 .
  • Jeganathan, S., Van Schaik, A., Jin, C. and Mcewan, A. (2010), 'Suitability of the INPHAZE impedance analyzer for bio-impedance and EIT', Journal of Physics, vol 224, no 1 , pp 0 - 0.
  • Gargiulo, G., Calvo, R., Bifulco, P., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., Mohamed, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'A new EEG recording system for passive dry electrodes', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol 121, no 5 , pp 686 - 693.
  • Tehrani, J., Jin, C., Mcewan, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'A comparison between compressed sensing algorithms in electrical impedance tomography', Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, , pp 3109 - 3112.
  • Gargiulo, G., Bifulco, P., Mcewan, A., Nasehi Tehrani, J., Calvo, R., Romano, M., Ruffo, M., Shepard, R., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., Mohamed, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Dry electrode bio-potential recordings', Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, , pp 6493 - 6496.
  • Chan, V., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Adaptive Sound Localisation with a Silicon Cochlea Pair', Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience, vol 4 .
  • Tapson, J., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A. and Etienne-Cummings, R. (2009), 'A first-order nonhomogeneous markov model for the response of spiking neurons stimulated by small phase-continuous signals', Neural Computation, vol 21, no 6 , pp 1554 - 1588.
  • Sun, D., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A. and Cabrera, D. (2009), 'The design and evaluation of an economically constructed anechoic chamber', Architectural Science Review, vol 52, no 4 , pp 312 - 319.
  • Msewan, A., Tapson, J., Van Schaik, A. and Holder, D. (2009), 'Code division multiplexed electrical impedance tomography spectroscopy', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol 3 , pp 332 - 338.
  • Kan, A., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2009), 'A psychophysical evaluation of near-field head-related transfer functions synthesized using a distance variation function', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 125, no 4 , pp 2233 - 2242.
  • Neher, T., Behrens, T., Carlile, S., Jin, C., Kragelund, L., Petersen, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2009), 'Benefit from spatial separation of multiple talkers in bilateral hearing-aid users : effects of hearing loss, age, and cognition', International Journal of Audiology, vol 48, no 11 , pp 7587 - 7674.
  • Martin, A., Jin, C. and van Schaik, A. (2009), 'Psychoacoustic evaluation of systems for delivering spatialized augmented-reality audio', AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol 57, no 12 , pp 1016 - 1027.
  • Hamilton, T., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A. and Tapson, J. (2008), 'An active 2-D silicon cochlea', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol 2, no 1 , pp 30 - 43.
  • Chan, V., Liu, S. and van Schaik, A. (2007), 'AER EAR: A Matched Silicon Cochlea Pair With Address Event Representation Interface', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol 54, no 1 , pp 48 - 59.
  • Chan, V., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2007), 'An Address-Event Vision Sensor for Multiple Transient Object Detection', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol 1, no 4 , pp 278 - 288.
  • Reeve, R., Van Schaik, A., Jin, C., Hamilton, T., Torben-Nielson, B. and Webb, B. (2007), 'Directional hearing in a silicon cricket', Bio Systems, vol 87, no 40604 , pp 307 - 313.
  • Best, V., Carlile, S., Jin, C. and van Schaik, A. (2005), 'The role of high frequencies in speech localization', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 118, no 1 , pp 353 - 363.
  • Best, V., van Schaik, A., Jin, C. and Carlile, S. (2005), 'Auditory spatial perception with sources overlapping in frequency and time', Acta Acustica united with Acustica, vol 91, no 3 , pp 421 - 428.

Conference Papers

  • Rastogi, S., Dennler, N., Schmuker, M. and Schaik, A. (2023), 'Spike-time encoding of gas concentrations using neuromorphic analog sensory front-end', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Toronto, Canada.
  • Krishna, A., Ramanathan, V., Yadav, S., Shah, S., Schaik, A., Mehendale, M. and Thakur, C. (2023), 'A sparsity-driven tinyML accelerator for decoding hand kinematics in brain-computer interfaces', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Toronto, Canada.
  • Krishna, A., Oleti, H., Chauhan, A., Shankaranarayanan, H., Schaik, A., Mehendale, M. and Thakur, C. (2023), 'Live demonstration : audio inference using neuromorphic cochlea on RAMAN accelerator', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Toronto, Canada.
  • Dennler, N., Drix, D., Rastogi, S., Schaik, A. and Schmuker, M. (2022), 'Rapid inference of geographical location with an event-based electronic nose', Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Conference, Virtual.
  • Wu, H., Fang, B., Xiang, C., Cohen, G., Schaik, A. and Ramesh, B. (2022), 'Evolving neuromorphic systems on the ethereum smart contract platform', IEEE Global Emerging Technology Blockchain Forum, Irvine, Calf..
  • Perera, S., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Schaik, A. and Wang, R. (2021), 'Live demonstration : an FPGA-based emulation of an event-based vision sensor using commercially available camera', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Daegu, Korea.
  • Islam, M., Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Monk, T. and Schaik, A. (2021), 'Investigation of auditory nerve model and conventional approaches in noise-robust speaker identification', International Conference on Frontiers of Signal Processing, online.
  • Low, W., Sonthalia, A., Gao, Z., Schaik, A. and Ramesh, B. (2021), 'Superevents : towards native semantic segmentation for event-based cameras', International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems, Knoxville, Tenn..
  • Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Singh, R., Wang, R., Schaik, A. and Hamilton, T. (2019), 'A binaural sound localization system using deep convolutional neural networks', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Mau, J., Afshar, S., Hamilton, T., Schaik, A., Lussana, R., Panella, A., Trumpf, J. and Delic, D. (2019), 'Embedded implementation of a random feature detecting network for real-time classification of time-of-flight SPAD array recordings', Laser Radar Technology and Applications (Conference), Baltimore, Md..
  • McDonnell, M., Mostafa, H., Wang, R. and Schaik, A. (2019), 'Single-bit-per-weight deep convolutional neural networks without batch-normalization layers for embedded systems', Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Chin, T., Bagchi, S., Eriksson, A. and Schaik, A. (2019), 'Star tracking using an event camera', IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Long Beach, Calif..
  • Singh, R., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., van Schaik, F. and Denham, S. (2018), 'CAR-Lite : a multi-rate cochlea model on FPGA', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Florence, Italy.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Singh, R., Hamilton, T., Wang, R. and van Schaik, F. (2018), 'A machine hearing system for binaural sound localization based on instantaneous correlation', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Florence, Italy.
  • Cohen, G., Afshar, S. and Schaik, A. (2018), 'Approaches for astrometry using event-based sensors', Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, Maui, Hawaii.
  • Thakur, C., Molin, J., Etienne-Cummings, R. and van Schaik, A. (2017), 'Inference in spiking Bayesian neurons using stochastic computation', Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, Md..
  • Karpul, D., McIntyre, S., van Schaik, A. and Breen, P. (2017), 'Measurement of perception thresholds for electrical noise stimuli', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, Jeju Island, South Korea.
  • Cohen, G., Afshar, S., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2017), 'EMNIST : extending MNIST to handwritten letters', International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage, Alaska.
  • Cohen, G., Afshar, S., van Schaik, A., Wabnitz, A., Bessell, T., Rutten, M. and Morreale, B. (2017), 'Event-based sensing for space situational awareness', Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, Hawaii.
  • McDonnell, M., Wang, R. and van Schaik, F. (2017), 'Reduced-memory training and deployment of deep residual networks by stochastic binary quantization', Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Workshop, San Jose, Calif..
  • Wang, R., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'A stochastic approach to STDP', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Montreal, Canada.
  • Wang, R., Cohen, G., Thakur, C., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'An SRAM-based implementation of a convolutional neural network', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Shanghai, China.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Singh, R., Wang, R., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'Electronic cochlea : CAR-FAC model on FPGA', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Shanghai, China.
  • De Chazal, P., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'Learning ELM network weights using linear discriminant analysis', International Conference on Extreme Learning Machines, Singapore.
  • Tapson, J., De Chazal, P. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'Explicit computation of input weights in extreme learning machines', International Conference on Extreme Learning Machines, Singapore.
  • Kasi, P., Birznieks, I. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A point process approach to encode tactile afferents', IEEE/EMBS International Conference on Neural Engineering, Montpellier, France.
  • De Chazal, P., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A comparison of extreme learning machines and back-propagation trained feed-forward networks processing the MNIST database', ICASSP (Conference), Brisbane, Qld..
  • Wright, J., Macefield, V., van Schaik, A. and Tapson, J. (2015), 'Decoding force from multiunit recordings from the median nerve', IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Singapore.
  • Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Wang, R., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A neuromorphic hardware framework based on population coding', International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland.
  • Sadr Lahijany, H., De Chazal, P., van Schaik, A. and Breen, P. (2015), 'Sleep apnoea episodes recognition by a committee of ELM classifiers from ECG signal', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, Milan, Italy.
  • Wang, R., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A compact aVLSI conductance-based silicon neuron', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Atlanta, Ga..
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., Wang, R. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A reconfigurable mixed-signal implementation of a neuromorphic ADC', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Atlanta, Ga..
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'A compact neural core for digital implementation of the Neural Engineering Framework', IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., van Schaik, A. and Lyon, R. (2014), 'FPGA implementation of the CAR model of the cochlea', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Nicholson, A., Jenkins, J., van Schaik, A., Hamilton, T. and Lehmann, T. (2014), 'A digital to transconductance converter for Nauta structure op-amps in 65nm CMOS', Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, College Station, Tex..
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'An FPGA design framework for large-scale spiking neural networks', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'A generalised conductance-based silicon neuron for large-scale spiking neural networks', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Thakur, C., Wright, J., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'Live demonstration : FPGA implementation of the CAR model of the cochlea', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2014), 'A compact reconfigurable mixed-signal implementation of synaptic plasticity in spiking neurons', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Gargiulo, G., Tapson, J., Van Schaik, A., McEwan, A. and Thiagalingam, A. (2013), 'Unipolar ECG circuits : towards more precise cardiac event identification', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Beijing, China.
  • Wang, R., Cohen, G., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'An improved aVLSI axon with programmable delay using spike timing dependent delay plasticity', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Beijing, China.
  • Nicholson, A., Jenkins, J., Irfansyah, A., Politi, N., Van Schaik, A., Hamilton, T. and Lehmann, T. (2013), 'A 0.3mm2 10-b 100MS/s pipelined ADC using Nauta structure op-amps in 180nm CMOS', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Beijing, China.
  • Guillon, P., Zolfaghari, R., Epain, N., Van Schaik, A. and Jin, C. (2012), 'Creating the Sydney York Morphological and Acoustic Recordings of Ears Database', 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Melbourne.
  • Nicholson, A., Jenkins, J., Van Schaik, A., Hamilton, T. and Lehmann, T. (2012), 'A 1.2V 2-bit phase interpolator for 65nm CMOS', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seoul, Korea.
  • Politi, N., Jenkins, J., Van Schaik, A., Lehmann, T. and Hamilton, T. (2012), 'A method for measuring switching frequency using complex asynchronous logic circuits', IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
  • Afshar, S., Kavehei, O., van Schaik, A., Tapson, J., Skafidas, S. and Hamilton, T. (2012), 'Emergence of competitive control in a memristor-based neuromorphic circuit', International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Brisbane, Qld..
  • Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2012), 'An asynchronous parallel neuromorphic ADC architecture', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seoul, Korea.
  • Wang, R., Tapson, J., Hamilton, T. and Van Schaik, A. (2012), 'An aVLSI programmable axonal delay circuit with spike timing dependent delay adaptation', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seoul, Korea.
  • Kuhlmann, L., Hauser-Raspe, M., Manton, J., Grayden, D., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2012), 'Online learning in Bayesian spiking neurons', International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Brisbane, Qld..
  • Tehrani, J., Thiagalingam, A., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A., Chik, W., Barry, M. and Mcewan, A. (2011), 'Feasibility of using internal electrodes to improve the accuracy Cardiac Electrical impedance Tomography', 12th International Conference in Electrical Impedance Tomography, Bath, UK.
  • Wang, R., Jin, C., Mcewan, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'A programmable axonal propagation delay circuit for time-delay spiking neural networks', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.
  • Wabnitz, A., Epain, N., Van Schaik, A. and Jin, C. (2011), 'Time Domain Reconstruction of Spatial Sound Fields Using Compressed Sensing', International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal processing, Prague, Czech Republ.
  • Wang, R., Tapson, J., Hamilton, T. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'An analogue VLSI implementation of polychronous spiking neural networks', Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Adelaide.
  • Gmel, G., Hamilton, T., Leblebici, Y. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'A Silicon Model of the Inner Hair Cell', Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Adelaide.
  • Hamilton, T. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'Silicon implementation of the generalized integrate-and-fire neuron model', 2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Adelaide, Australia.
  • Ang, C., Jin, C., Leong, P. and Van Schaik, A. (2011), 'Spiking neural network-based auto-associative memory using FPGA interconnect delays', 2011 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, New Delhi, India.
  • Thanigaivelan, B., Postula, A., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A. and Hamilton, T. (2010), 'Symbolic Analysis of the Tau Cell Log-Domain Filter using Affine MOSFET Models', IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Tapson, J., Hamilton, T. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Live Demonstration : The Self-Tuned Regenerative Electromechanical Parametric Amplifier', IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France.
  • Tapson, J., Hamilton, T. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'The Self-Tuned Regenerative Electromechanical Parametric Amplifier: A Model for Active Amplification in the Cochlea', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France.
  • Van Schaik, A., Jin, C. and Hamilton, T. (2010), 'A log-domain implementation of the Izhikevich neuron model', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France.
  • Van Schaik, A., Jin, C., Hamilton, T., Mihalas, S. and Niebur, E. (2010), 'A log-domain implementation of the Mihalas-Niebur neuron model', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France.
  • Liu, S., Van Schaik, A., Minch, B. and Delbruck, T. (2010), 'Event-Based 64-Channel Binaural Silicon Cochlea with Q Enhancement Mechanisms', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France.
  • Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Investigating the implications of Outer Hair Cell connectivity using a Silicon Cochlea', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France.
  • Martin, A., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A. and Martens, W. (2010), 'Partially observable Markov decision processes for interactive music systems', International Computer Music Conference, Stony Brook, NY.
  • Epain, N., Guillon, P., Kan, A., Kosobrodov, R., Sun, D., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Objective evaluation of a three-dimensional sound field reproduction system', Internation Congress on Acoustics, Sydney, Australia.
  • Epain, N., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Blind source separation using independant component analysis in the spherical harmonic domain', International Symposium on Ambisonics and Spherical Acoustics, Paris, France.
  • Wabnitz, A., Epain, N., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Room Acoustics simulation for multichannel microphone arrays', International Symposium on Room Acoustics, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Wu, P., Jin, C., Kan, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'A Multi-Microphone Speech Enhancement Algorithm Tested Using Acoustic Vector Sensors', International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Gargiulo, G., Bifulco, P., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C., McEwan, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2010), 'Wearable dry sensors with Bluetooth connection for use in remote patient monitoring systems', Global Telehealth (Conference), Perth, W.A..
  • Epain, N., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2009), 'The Application of Compressive Sampling to the Analysis and Synthesis of Spatial Sound Fields', AES 127th Convention, New York.
  • Van Schaik, A., Chan, V. and Jin, C. (2009), 'Sound localisation with a silicon cochlea pair', IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Parthy, A., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2009), 'Acoustic holography with a concentric rigid and open spherical microphone array', IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Kan, A., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2009), 'Psychoacoustic evaluation of techniques for individualised headphone-renered VAS from B-format RIRs', International Workshop on the Principles and Applications of Spatial Hearing, Zao, Miyagi, Japan.
  • Gargiulo, G., Bifulco, P., Calvo, R., Cessarelli, M., Jin, C. and van Schaik, A. (2008), 'A mobile EEG system with dry electrodes', IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Baltimore, USA.
  • Hamilton, T., Van Schaik, A. and Cornell, B. (2008), 'Measuring the impedance of a tethered bilayer membrane biosensor', IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Baltimore, USA.
  • Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2008), 'Analogue VLSI implementations of two dimensional, nonlinear, active cochlea models', IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Baltimore, USA.
  • Kan, A., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2008), 'Estimating a sound signal in a known direction from a soundfield microphone recording', IEEE International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, .
  • Gargiulo, G., Bifulco, P., Calvo, R., Cesarelli, M., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2008), 'Mobile biomedical sensing with dry electrodes', IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Sydney, Australia.
  • Tapson, J., Hamilton, T., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2008), 'Self-tuned regenerative amplification and the Hopf bifurcation', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, .
  • Hamilton, T., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A. and Tapson, J. (2008), 'A 2-D silicon cochlea with an improved automatic quality factor control-loop', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, .
  • Tapson, J., Vismer, M., Jin, C., Van Schaik, A., Folowosele, F. and Etienne-Cummings, R. (2008), 'A two-neuron cross-correlation circuit with a wide and continuous range of time delay', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, .
  • Parthy, A., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2008), 'An empirical evaluation of a two-dimensional second order sound field recording and reproduction system', International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, .
  • Parthy, A., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2008), 'Measured and theoretical performance comparison of a co-centred rigid and open spherical microphone array', International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, .
  • Mcewan, A., Holder, D., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2008), 'Wide-bandwidth, high frame rate electrical impedance tomography / spectroscopy - A Code Division Multiplexing (CDW) approach', International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices, .
  • Jin, C., Martin, A. and Van Schaik, A. (2007), 'Psychoacoustic evaluation of a new earpiece for augmented-reality audio', 14th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Cairns, Australia.
  • Parthy, A., Jin, C. and van Schaik, A. (2007), 'Measured and theoretical performance comparison of a broadband circular microphone array', AES 31st International Conference, .
  • Mcewan, A., Tapson, J., Van Schaik, A. and Holder, D. (2007), 'Electrode Circuits for frequency- and Code-Devision Multiplexed Impedance Tomography', IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  • Hamilton, T., Jin, C., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2007), 'A 2-D Cochlea with Hopf Oscillators', IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  • Tapson, J., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2007), 'A Scalable Architecture for Event-Based Cross-Correlation', IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  • Hamilton, T., Jin, C. and Van Schaik, A. (2007), 'A Basilar Membrane Resonator for an Active 2-D Cochlea', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, .
  • Gomez-Rodriguez, F., Linares-Barranco, A., Miro, L., Liu, S., Van Schaik, A., Etienne-Cummings, R. and Lewis, M. (2007), 'AER Auditory Filtering and CPG for Robot Control', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, .

Reverse engineering the brain

The brain creates a coherent interpretation of the external world based on input from its senses. Yet data from the senses are unreliable and confused. How does the brain determine what is out there in the world around it? BENS will conduct neurophysiological and psychophysical investigations combined with theoretical, computational and electronic modelling studies to discover how the brain achieves this. The outcomes of this research will then be applied to create electronics sensors with built in brains. 

Neuromorphic Engineering and Intelligent Sensors

Neuromorphic Engineering is a subfield of Electrical Engineering that aims to apply knowledge of how signals are processed in the brain to build electronic signal processing systems that vastly outperform current digital signal processing systems. Current ‘smart’ sensors are generally sensors with a built-in computer. What BENS aims to develop are smart sensors with a built-in brain.

This information has been contributed by Professor van Schaik.

Current Projects

Title: Develop a novel bio-inspired acoustic sensor for efficiently targeting and recording Koala calls
Funder:
  • Biodiversity Research Pty Ltd
Western Researchers: Saeed Afshar, Ying Xu and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2022-12-23 - 2024-04-15
ID: P00028441
Title: Neuromorphic Muscle Activity Sensing and Processing for Prosthetics
Funder:
  • Perpetual Trustee Company Limited
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2020-07-01 - 2024-06-30
ID: P00026733
Title: Turn-key neuromorphic solution for deep learning
Funder:
  • Vijna Labs Pvt Ltd
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik and Mark Wang
Years: 2019-06-01 - 2024-10-31
ID: P00025727
Title: Neuromorphic Processors for Cyber Security Applications at the Edge
Funder:
  • Department of Defence
Western Researchers: Saeed Afshar and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2021-05-11 - 2024-05-11
ID: P00027251
Title: ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies [via Uni Melb]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2018-06-07 - 2024-06-07
ID: P00023801

Previous Projects

Title: UAV Visual Anomaly Detection in the Maritime Environment Using a Neuromorphic Sensor-Processor Platform
Funder:
  • Raytheon Australia Pty Ltd
Western Researchers: Saeed Afshar and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2023-03-01 - 2024-03-01
ID: P00028527
Title: Brain-Inspired Algorithms for Network Anomaly and Intrusion Detection
Funder:
  • Department of Defence
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik, Saeed Afshar, Ahmed Moustafa, Abubakar Bello and Alana Maurushat
Years: 2020-02-12 - 2020-06-30
ID: P00026394
Title: Hardware Acceleration for Neural Systems
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2014-01-01 - 2017-12-22
ID: P00021450
Title: Event-Based Cameras and their Potential Applications to Space Situational Awareness
Funder:
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Western Researchers: Gregory Cohen and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2018-11-15 - 2022-05-21
ID: P00024779
Title: Designing a Bionic Voice Prosthesis to Restore Natural Voice for Laryngectomy Patients
Funder:
  • The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik and Farzaneh Ahmadi
Years: 2015-07-01 - 2019-06-03
ID: P00022459
Title: Neuromorphic Cognition for Micro-Aircraft Applications
Funder:
  • Department of Defence
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik and Jonathan Tapson
Years: 2016-04-18 - 2017-10-31
ID: P00023406
Title: Event Based Sensor Space Situational Awareness Experiment
Funder:
  • Department of Defence
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik and Gregory Cohen
Years: 2017-03-01 - 2017-05-31
ID: P00023841
Title: Novel circuits and design strategies for sub-65 nanometre complementary metal oxide semiconductor technologies [via UNSW]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2011-06-27 - 2014-06-26
ID: P00020370
Title: EPIC Expert visit
Funder:
  • EPIC European-Pacific Partnership for ICT
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2018-09-01 - 2019-06-01
ID: P00025296
Title: EPIC expert visitors program
Funder:
  • EPIC European-Pacific Partnership for ICT
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2018-05-07 - 2019-02-28
ID: P00025043
Title: Event-based image sensors for optical space situational awareness
Funder:
  • Department of Defence
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2016-04-27 - 2017-05-27
ID: P00023405
Title: Hardware implementation of spiking neural network architectures for sensory and learning systems
Funder:
  • Department of Defence
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2016-05-05 - 2019-08-14
ID: P00023408
Title: Microelectronic 3D Imaging and Neuromorphic Recognition for Autonomous UAVs [via Milan Politechnic]
Funder:
  • Department of Defence
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Western Researchers: Tara Hamilton and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2016-04-04 - 2019-04-05
ID: P00022195
Title: Design of a space-based, low-power star tracking system using event-based cameras
Funder:
  • Department of Defence
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik and Gregory Cohen
Years: 2017-04-03 - 2018-08-31
ID: P00023925
Title: Astrocytic K+ regulation as a mechanism to modulate brain waves
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Yossi Buskila and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2012-10-24 - 2014-03-31
ID: P00021107
Title: Feeling Color: Transforming Visual Color to Tactile Stimulation as a Pprosthetic for the Blind
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik and Jonathan Tapson
Years: 2011-11-09 - 2015-11-08
ID: P00020464
Title: A feasibility study for the development of a sensor-processor system to detect Koala bellows
Funder:
  • Biodiversity Research Pty Ltd
Western Researchers: Ying Xu, Saeed Afshar and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2022-01-17 - 2022-03-31
ID: P00027733
Title: Electronic Auditory Pathway
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2011-01-31 - 2014-06-30
ID: P00020066
Title: Classification of Sonar Snapshot Images for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle On-board Processing [via UoW]
Funder:
  • Defence Innovation Network
Western Researchers: Yi Guo and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2018-05-11 - 2019-01-31
ID: P00025130
Title: SWIRAH / ROBOTIC SURGERY: Developing haptic devices to enhance minimally invasive surgery
Funder:
  • Perpetual Trustee Company Limited
Western Researchers: Chris Stanton, Tara Hamilton, Andre Van Schaik and Gaetano Gargiulo
Years: 2018-07-01 - 2020-06-30
ID: P00024685
Title: Auditory Perception in Neural Electronics
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2018-06-01 - 2021-05-31
ID: P00023900
Title: Feasibility of Event Based Vision Sensors servicing the Artemis Spacecraft [via The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)]
Funder:
  • Thales Australia Limited
Western Researchers: Andre Van Schaik, Gregory Cohen and Bharath Ramesh
Years: 2021-06-29 - 2022-06-25
ID: P00027429

Supervision

Professor van Schaik is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Thesis Title: Bayesian Inference with Spiking Neurons
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Potential Biomedical Applications of Gas Array Sensor Technologies Using Dedicated VLSI Hardware Implementing Bayesian Inference for Pattern Recognition and Classification Tasks
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Building Blocks for Electronic Neural Networks
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Thesis Title: A Real-Time Implementation of the Primary Auditory Neuron Activities
Field of Research: Engineering And Related Technologies
Thesis Title: Neuromorphic Implementations of Polychronus Spiking Neural Networks
Field of Research: Electronic Engineering; Artificial Intelligence
Thesis Title: Bayesian Decoding of Tactile Afferents Responsible for Sensorimotor Control
Field of Research: Statistics; Biological Sciences, N.e.c.; Other Society And Culture; Biomedical Engineering

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