CONTACTILE - Key Persons
Benjamin has an Honours degree and Masters from UNSW Sydney in Electrical Engineering. He has expertise in mechanical design, electronics and PCB design, 3D printing, microcontroller programming, and software programming in a number of languages, including MATLAB and Java. He is the inventor of optical instrumentation method core to the Contactile sensor technology and has developed the majority of our hardware and software prototypes.
Heba holds a PhD in Engineering, B (Software) Engineering and B Medical Science, from the University of Sydney. She has applied her expertise in biosignal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning in complex biomedical problems including epilepsy, cardiac and autonomic diseases, malnutrition and human tactile physiology. Since 2014, she has been developing tactile sensors for robotic gripping that are inspired by the human sense of touch.
Stephen has an Honours degree in Electronic Engineering. He holds a PhD in signal processing and pattern recognition. He has been an academic researcher for 13 years. He held an ARC Discovery, ARC Linkage, and ARC Future Fellowship funding, which started this tactile sensing project, and funding from US ONRG. He is currently the recipient of Science Foundation Ireland Future Research Leaders Award at University College Dublin.