Dr Ganesh Naik

Academic Status

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Bedford Park
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Ganesh R. Naik, ranked top 2% of researchers worldwide in Biomedical Engineering (Stanford University Research), is a leading expert in biomedical engineering and signal processing. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering, specializing in biomedical engineering and signal processing, from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009.

He held a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University (WSU), between July 2017 and July 2020. He led the data analysis team on a multimillion-dollar CRC project for sleep and developed several novel algorithms (wearables) related to sleep projects. Before that, he held a Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship position in the Centre for Health Technologies, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), between February 2013 and June 2017. As a mid-career researcher, he has edited 12 books and authored around 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences (cited more than 5000 times (3580 since 2018) on Google Scholar). Ganesh is an associate editor for IEEE ACCESS, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, and two Springer journals (Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing and Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine). He is a Baden–Württemberg Scholarship recipient from Berufsakademie, Stuttgart, Germany (2006–2007). In 2010, he was awarded an ISSI overseas fellowship from Skilled Institute Victoria, Australia.

Qualifications

PhD in Electronics Engineering specialising in Biomedical Engineering, Data science and Signal processing from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, December - 2009

Honours, awards and grants

Bridge and BridgeTech Industry Fellowship - 2023

Chancellor’s postdoctoral research fellowship, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia - 2013 – 2016

International Specialized Skills Institute Victoria overseas fellowship (sponsored by Skills Victoria, Australia) - 2010

IEEE Victoria Travel Scholarship - 2008

Baden-Württemberg PhD scholarship - 2006 - 2007

Key responsibilities

Physiological signal analysis, Algorithm design

Teaching interests

Biomedical Engineering

Data Engineering

Signal Processing