Mr Alistair McEwan
BE/BComm MEng(Res), Sydney, Australia. PhD, Oxford, UK. MIEEE
J03 - Electrical Engineering Building
The University of Sydney
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Research interests
Dr Alistair McEwan's research into the electrical properties of biological tissue will enable us to better address a range of major health challenges relating to cardiovascular disease, cancer and nutrition. "My research aims to lead to the development of new devices to improve diagnosis and treatment of health problems. "Understanding the influence of the electrical properties of the body can enable us to learn more about neural and cell signalling, leading to better design of electronic implants and ultimately a better understanding of how the brain works. "I am passionate about this area of research, as I believe it can lead to new diagnosis techniques, particularly in the area of low-cost devices for home health care, which will help to alleviate the incredible economic strain of the current healthcare system. "I have had several enquiries from family members of stroke sufferers about the availability of a portable device for stroke. Clinicians in cardiology, neurology, cancer, respiration and newborn care have also indicated that they would find the devices we are working on very useful in a range of clinical and public health scenarios. As well as this, there has been interest from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in our device for measuring newborn malnutrition in developing countries. All of this interest indicates that there is a real clinical need for the kind of devices we are working to develop. "I have been working in this field for eight years, the past three of which have been at the University of Sydney. The faculty's interest in biomedical engineering, along with the size, expertise and interest of the Sydney Medical School, has enabled me to identify and pursue research projects of real clinical need."
Teaching and supervision
ELEC3404 - Electronic Circuit Design
ELEC3802 - Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering
ELEC3803 - Bioelectronics
ELEC5737 - Foundations of Electronic Circuit Design
Selected grants
2013
- Dynamic wavefront shaping development; McEwan A; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
2012
- Malnutrition and body composition assessment for under $1; McEwan A; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Research Support.
2011
- Microsoft Faculty Fellowship; McEwan A; Microsoft Research Asia (China)/Research Support.
- Carbon nanotube based electrodes for rapid, dry electro-physiological measurements; McEwan A, Harris A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
- Individually addressable, active, multipoint electrodes for bio-potential recording and electrical impedance imaging.; McEwan A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2009
- Inverse eigenvalue analysis for auditory systems and CMOS circuits for multiple frequency synthesis; McEwan A, Choubey B; DVC Research/International Visiting Research Fellowship (IVRF).
2007
- Electrical impedance tonography spectroscopy for classification of acute stroke; University of Sydney/International Visiting Research Fellowship (IVRF).
Selected publications
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Advanced Biomedical Engineering (InTech Open Access Publishers (peer reviewed),2011)
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Applied Biomedical Engineering (InTech Open Access Publishers (peer reviewed),2011)
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PhD and master's project opportunities
- Mapping 2D Images to 3D Shape
- New technique for studying human brain activity
- Next Generation Audio Coding
- Spherical multi-modal scene analysis
- Statistical models of ear shape and ear acoustics
- FPGA-based Low Latency Trading
- Floating Point FPGA Architectures
- Placement-aware Hardware Description Languages
- Scalable vision machines
- Modelling Parkinson's disease using control models
- Binaural signal processing algorithms for hearing aids
- Medical diagnostics for neonates in the developing world
- Electrical Impedance Tomography for stroke, biophysical monitoring and medical device design
- Impedance tomography for cardiac imaging: high speed tomography
- Novel Electrodes for rapid electrophysiological recording


