EquipmentAgilent Technologies E8362B PNA Vector Network Analyser

Research interests include:
-Electro-biotechnology: Bio-feedback rehabilitation devices, electrostatic allergen control, electro-surgery, and neural stimulation.
-Electric field mediated biomedical applications: research focuses on applications of electroporation and dielectrophoreisis. Electroporation is a term that is used for the observed increase in permeability of biological membranes to macromolecules through application of high magnitude electric field pulses. The increased membrane permeability allows the transport of material across the membrane that would otherwise be blocked. This effect has significant applications in research including genetic engineering, gene therapy, cancer chemotherapy and cloning. Dielectrophoresis is defined as medium magnitude AC non-linear electric field induced movement of cells. The movement can be used to separate mixed cell types, transport cells from place to place, and arrange cells into structures. This effect has applications in disease diagnosis, immunology, cell characterisation, and cloning.
-Power electronics applications: research is primarily involved with the design and construction of high voltage and high frequency power electronics. Of particular interest are high voltage electronics associated with electroporation research, modular multi-level converters for electric vehicle applications, and small-scale electrical power generation using sustainable energy sources.

Research interests include: 1. Biomedical Systems: Modelling of Glucose-Insulin system, development of macro-physical cardio-vascular system models including ventricular interaction, integral based Inverse Problem Solutions for a Digital Image-Based Elasto Tomography Breast Cancer Screening System, agitation sensing with Image Processing based on patient motion and facial grimacing. 2. Image Processing and Computer Vision: High Speed 3D Motion Sensing for a Digital Image-based Elasto Tomography Breast Cancer Screening System, intensive care patient motion detection and measurement (facial grimacing detection for the development of an agitation sensor), measuring morphological change in the Waimakariri River using a rotating camera system with zoom on a 33m power pylon and on a 12m portable mast. 3.Structural Health Monitoring: Developing real time integral based structural Health Monitoring algorithms, applying integral based methods to detect stiffness changes to the structure of multi-storey buildings during and after an earthquake using only accelerometer data 4. Development of real-time modeling and system identification techniques for implementation during rocket flight, 6DOF rigid body dynamic modeling of rocket response, Minimal modeling of shock waves and turbulence during rocket flight, Vertical wind tunnel testing and control system development, Orbital mechanics calculations and optimization for small payload low earth orbit insertion