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Found a brand new University of Sydney PhD thesis, which is highly likely related to the GitHub “Akida Seizure” repository that one of the two thesis supervisors, Omid Kavehei, had set up under the GitHub name NeuroSyd just over two months ago (which seems to have disappeared since or has possibly been renamed?), spotted by @Fullmoonfever at the time.
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University of Sydney PhD candidate Andre Zainal, who has a B.Eng. (Biomedical) & B.MedSci background, embarked on his Research PhD in Biomedical Engineering just a week ago, “researching AI-driven neuromorphic hardware for early seizure detection”.
The title of his thesis is “Optimizing Training Algorithms for Neuromorphic Hardware: Enhancing In-Memory Computing with FPGA and Akida Neural Processors for Epileptic Seizure Detection”.
Akida doesn’t have “in-memory-computing”, though?
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Andre Zainal’s first PhD supervisor Omid Kavehei has been conducting epilepsy research for years:
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More on Andre Zainal’s two PhD supervisors:
Principal supervisor Omid Kavehei is not only Professor at University of Sydney’s School of Biomedical Engineering, but also Director and Founder of BrainConnect (https://brainconnect.com.au/), the stealth startup “developing novel solutions in long-term interfacing with the brain and body”, where co-supervisor Duy Nhan Truong works as Engineering Lead.
Prior to filling that position, Duy Nhan Truong also used to be at University of Sydney, initially as a PhD student in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (transferred from RMIT University in 2018, PhD thesis completed in 2020, titled “Epileptic Seizure Detection and Forecasting Ecosystems”, principal supervisor: Omid Kavehei; https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/21932/truong_nd_thesis.pdf?) and later as a postdoc.
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