A/ProfTara Hamilton

Adjunct Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Mechanical and Biomedical ENG

  • Adjunct Associate Professor
    School of Electrical, Mechanical and Biomedical ENG

BIO

Tara Julia Hamilton received her BE Honours Class I (Electrical Engineering) and BCOM (Economics and Marketing) from the University of Sydney in 2001, MSc (Biomedical Engineering) from UNSW in 2003, and PhD from the University of Sydney in 2009. She has held academic positions at the University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, Western Sydney University, and Macquarie University. Tara has also worked extensively within industry having held full-time positions at Cochlear Ltd. (2000 - 2004) and G2 Microsystems (2007). Tara is the author of over 120 research papers and 3 international patents. Tara works with leading health, defence, and technology companies and she is focused on developing innovative solutions to real-world problems.

- Chair (2019 - ), Secretary (2017 - 2019), Engineering Mathematics Group (EMG) - Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) division of the Australian Mathematical Society (AusMS)
- Secretary (2019 - ) - Electron Devices Society Chapter IEEE NSW Section
- Member IEEE (22 years)
- Sensory Systems Technical Committee for IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) since 2009
- Women in Circuits and Systems (WiCAS) committee (for IEEE CAS) since 2011
- Special Session Co-chair for the 2012 Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS)
- Editorial Board - Sensors (IF: 3.7)
- Committee Member NeuroEng (Australia/New Zealand) since 2012
- Co-Editor Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference (EMAC - 2011 and 2013)
- CSIRO Scientists in Schools STEM programme 2014 +
- Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience (Neuromorphic Engineering)
- Review Committee Member (RCM) IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2009 +

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    University of Technology Sydney, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, Sydney, Australia19 Jan 2020 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    Macquarie University, School of Engineering, Sydney, Australia29 Jul 2018 - 17 Jan 2020
  • Associate Professor
    Western Sydney University, The MARCS Institute, Australia1 Jan 2018 - 22 Jul 2018
  • Senior Research Lecturer
    University of Western Sydney, The MARCS Institute, Richmond, Australia15 Dec 2013 - 1 Jan 2018
  • Lecturer
    UNSW Australia, School of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering, Sydney, Australia7 Dec 2009 - 9 Dec 2013

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • ASIC Design Engineer
    Cochlear Ltd., Design and Development, Lane Cove, Australia4 Sep 2000 - 4 Oct 2004

DEGREES

  • PhD
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia2 Feb 2004 - 12 May 2008
  • Master of Engineering Science (Biomedical Engineering)
    UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia26 Mar 2001 - 17 Mar 2003
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) Honours Class I
    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia25 Mar 1996 - 15 Mar 2001
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Economics and Marketing)
    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia23 Jun 1997 - 9 Mar 2001

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic

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