News

• Proceedings for the 2025 NICE conference (Robin's paper) were published

• I gave an interview for the West Gippsland Week 3BBR show about our Science Robotics work

• I gave an interview for 2GB about our Science Robotics work

• The Australian Associated Press, Science News, The Engineer covered our Science Robotics article

• A piece we wrote for The Conversation was published

• Our Science Robotics paper was published online!

• Visited Townsville and Charters Towers through the Flying Scientist program for the World Science Festival

• Got married!
• Attended the transitions team retreat in Kioloa, NSW with Macquarie, ANU, & Cambridge

• Robin's work was accepted to the IEEE Neuro Inspired Computational Elements conference, co-supervised by Tobias Fischer

• Presented at the QUT The Future of Neuromorphic and Bio-Inspired Computation event

• Started as co-chair of the EMCR Brain Sciences Network for a one year term

• Visited Roma State College for a Flying Scientist event
• Joined Macquarie University as a postdoctoral research fellow

• Visited Macquarie University to meet and attend a special lecture from Prof. Barbara Webb
• Submitted our LENS neuromorphic localization system preprint and published it to arXiv

• Our J.Neuro paper was featured by the journal as one of the most discussed articles for May based on Altmetric >180

• Gave an interview for the ABC on our anaesthetic mechanisms paper
• A piece I wrote for The Conversation on our anaesthesia paper was published
• Served as an organiser for the 2024 IEEE ICRA Debates in Robotics workshop
• Attended and presented VPRTempo at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Yokohama, Japan
• Our general anaesthetic mechanism paper was accepted and published in The Journal of Neuroscience
• Poster presentation accepted to the 2024 IEEE ICRA workshop on "Bio-inspired robotics and robotics for biology"

• Presented about neuromorphic localisation and computing at the QUT School of EER Research+You event

• Completed the Harvard Business School Online Leadership Principles course
• Provided an expert insight to New Scientist on an article about AI and the mouse brain

• Our VPRTempo paper was accepted to the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• Joined the EMCR Brain Sciences Network as a steering committee member

• Attended my PhD graduation at UQ

• Gave a seminar "Neuronal synapses: from biology to bits" at the QUT Centre for Robotics weekly seminar series
• Submitted our VPRTempo paper and published it to arXiv

• Succesfully defended and had my PhD conferred!

• Participated in a Fulbright panel for researchers interested in the program at Neura in NSW
• Started as a Research Fellow with the QUT Centre for Robotics

• Submitted our anaesthetic mechanism paper and published it to bioRxiv
• Submitted my PhD thesis for examination

• Passed my final PhD milestone examination

• Returned home from my Fulbright after 5.5 months in Philadelphia, PA

• Visited and presented a seminar at Weill Cornell in NYC
• Visited and presented a seminar at Harvard/MGH and MIT in Boston, MA

• Delivered an online seminar at the University of Pittsburgh Research Rounds
• Invited and attended the Liszt Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, NYC from the One to World organisation

• Visited and presented a seminar at the Fall Seminar Series at Rutgers in NJ

• Joined H1 Connect as an Associate Faculty, alongside Prof. Roderic Eckenhoff

• Oficially started my Fulbright program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA

• Visited Far North Queensland for an 8 school tour through the Wonder of Science program and Business Liason Association of Cairns promoting STEMM
• Delievered an online seminar (at 2am!) for the Research in Progress seminar series at the University of Pennsylvania

• Attended the Fulbright Orientation in Canberra