Richard Jones

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RICHARD D. JONES received his B.E.(Hons) and M.E. degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1974 and 1975 respectively and a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Otago, Christchurch, in 1987. He is Director of the Christchurch Neurotechnology Research Programme (www.neurotechnz.com) based in the Van der Veer Institute for Parkinson's and Brain Research (www.vanderveer.org.nz), a senior biomedical engineer & neuroscientist in the Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering of Canterbury District Health Board, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Communication Disorders, and Psychology at the University of Canterbury, and an Honorary Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch.

Dr Jones’s research interests and contributions fall largely within neural engineering and the neurosciences, and particularly within (1) human performance engineering – development and application of computerized tests for quantification of upper-limb sensory-motor and cognitive function, particularly in brain disorders (stroke, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury) and driver assessment, (2) lapses of responsiveness (microsleeps, attention lapses) – characteristics, brain mechanisms via simultaneous-fMRI+EEG+Tracking+EyeClosure, and detection from behavioural measures (tracking and videometrics) and electrophysiological signals (EEG, EOG), (3) signal processing in clinical neurophysiology – detection of epileptic activity, (4) eye movements in brain disorders, (5) computational modelling of the human brain, (6) virtual-reality approaches to neurorehabilitation, and (7) neural control of swallowing.

Dr Jones is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, a Fellow and a Past President of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, a Fellow of American Institution for Medical and Biological Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has been a member of most of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society’s International Conference Committees since 1988, a past member of its Administrative Committee (representative for Asia-Pacific region), and Co-Chair of the Neural & Rehabilitation Engineering Theme at EMBS conferences in 2001, 2005, 2008, and 2010. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Neural Engineering, a Theme Editor on the EMBS Conference Editorial Board, and a past Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.