Ishara Paranawithana
@isharackp
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Biomedical Engineering | NeuroTech Enthusiast | Applied Data Scientist 🇦🇺🇱🇰
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined April 2011
Excited to be part of the 2024 #IMNISCatalyst cohort. Thanks @ATSE_au for this great opportunity! Looking forward to a year full of learning, professional development and networking...
We are thrilled to announce this year’s #IMNISCatalyst cohort! 👏 Our IMNIS Catalyst program supports inspiring leaders in STEM to become ambassadors for their professions through unique PD & networking opportunities. 📊 🔗 Meet the 2024 #IMNISCatalyst: https://t.co/0cDxbTpS7W
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Last week, our 2024 #IMNIS Catalysts connected with our CEO @Kylie_Walker1 to gain insights into ATSE's role in driving STEM innovation. Kylie shared our inspiring vision and how early career researchers can contribute to it. 🔗 Explore #IMNIS programs: https://t.co/2eKSFavz90
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✨We're excited to welcome Dr@isharackp to the #IMNISCatalyst program. Our IMNIS Catalyst program supports inspiring leaders in STEM to become ambassadors for their professions through unique professional development and networking opportunities. 🔗More: https://t.co/JBPr5ua0ji
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An exciting discovery in our #BioPhysicsFeature this week: a cutting-edge study using non-invasive brain imaging helps to diagnose deaf infants, helping them get the treatment they need even sooner: https://t.co/NLt5XkAGrj
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Our work featured in Monash Engineering news recently. Do checkout if you are interested in #languagedevelopment in #infants
#fnirs #neuroimaging #restingstate #phd #neuroscience
Listening to brainwaves to help diagnose #hearingimpairment in babies. @MonashUni PhD student @isharackp and @BionicsInst researchers have used light technology invisible to the human eye to non-invasively image brains👉 https://t.co/mfcJoXOElB
#ThisIsEngineering #changeit
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Our work featured in @theage and @smh yesterday. A big thank you to all those who were involved including my supervisors, study participants, their parents and media/comms teams of @monashengineers and the @BionicsInst
#infanthearing #brainimaging #fnirs #neurotwitter #phd
Audrey was too young to say she could hear you. But her brainwaves could. https://t.co/Fg8cXVECeh
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An article featuring our latest work published in JNE. Have a read if you are interested to know how non-invasive optical brain imaging can be used to map the changes in connectivity between different brain language areas. #hearingloss #languagedevelopment #neurotwitter #fnirs
Hearing impairment can affect children’s ability to develop language and speech skills. Now, researchers have conducted non-invasive measurements of the brain activity of infants, to map the changes in connectivity between different language areas over time.
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The launch of our White Paper titled, Building Australia Through Innovation, is underway! Over 80 industry representatives have joined us at @NAB to hear Julie Rynski, John Stanhope, and Robert Klupacs share insights from the paper. #medtech #innovationforlife #research
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Interested to know how language areas develop in infant brains? Our recent study used resting-state functional connectivity as an objective measure to characterize language development during infancy. #fnirs #brainimaging #functionalconnectivity #language #infants #neurotwitter
This recent study from an Australian team of researchers used #fNIRS to look at the development of language regions in the brains of infants. Check out their findings here:
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With New $1M Grant, Bionic Institute’s Novel Hearing Diagnostic System, EarGenie, Moves Towards Commercialization. @BionicsInst
https://t.co/T4j4mCFKXs
hearinghealthmatters.org
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — The Bionics Institute’s development of a ground-breaking hearing test for babies, called EarGenie ®, is one of 16 projects to be funded by the latest National Health and...
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Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have just written checks for Synchron, a startup developing an implant that can let people control computers with their minds
bloomberg.com
The billionaires’ support makes the startup one of the best-funded efforts to enable people to control computers with their minds.
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It was great to share my experience about Menzies scholarship at the MedTech Actuator Showcase 2022 earlier this month. So grateful to all the supportive people at @medtechactuator and @MenziesFdation for this opportunity! #medtech #medtechsuperheroes #medicalresearch #innovation
Bionics Institute PhD student, Ishara Paranawithana (@isharackp) was recently invited to speak at the prestigious @medtechactuator Showcase 2022 event. Congratulations Ishara! #MedTech #innovationforlife #careers #innovation
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I will be presenting my work at Australasian Neuroscience Society 40th Annual Scientific Meeting today. Check out my poster (#37) if you are interested in language networks in babies and functional neuroimaging (fNIRS) @AusNeuroSoc @ANS_Students #ANS2022 #fnirs #language
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Presented my PhD work for the second time in a row at this year's Students of Brain Research (SOBR) Symposium. Thanks for the opportunity @SOBRNetwork
#sharewithsobr #phdresearch #languagedevelopment #fnirs #neuroimaging #neurotwitter
In the final research session of the day, presentations on engineering, computation and systems neuroscience by Sven Storch, Po-Chen Liu, Ishara Paranwithana @isharackp, and Mehul Gajwani @m_gajwani 👩💻
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It has been a wonderful experience meeting other Menzies scholars and participants of the MedTechActuator Origin program over the past 3 days with a lot of learning opportunities thanks to these lovely people from @medtechactuator and @MenziesFdation!
"The @MenziesFdation Scholarship program has given me the opportunity to explore commercialisation issues in depth over the past 3 days, network with other scholars & MedTech Actuator Origin participants, be inspired by their drive & ideas, & inspire them with my work & vision."
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Take a look at this exciting new paper from researchers from @PittTweet and @ucmerced systematically examining global physiology correction methods for #restingstate analysis. https://t.co/4v0Xwap7Yq
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Miss attending it in-person big time! 🥺😥 #fNIRS2022
First session of #fNIRS2022 on #neurodevelopment is starting in half an hour! PS - For all the night owls and jetlagged people: there's coffee!
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So grateful to be a recipient of fNIRS 2022 DEI Travel Award. Thank you @SfNIRS! Unfortunately, I am unable to attend @nirs2022 in-person, so looking forward to meeting everyone virtually. #fnirs #fnirs2022
🏆🏆🏆 Check out the list of recipients of the @SfNIRS DEI Travel Awards and the work they will be presenting at #fNIRS2022! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THEM! 👏 https://t.co/PLKnWGMVyk
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Pretty comprehensive review article for #fnirs people!
Just published: the 65-page (!) review paper (with 516 references) on optical imaging & spectroscopy for the study of the human brain -> https://t.co/Gt9q2AHh1o Edited by Erin Buckley (@buckley_lab) & Rickson Mesquita (@mesquitarc). #fNIRS #neurophotonics #neuroscience
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Glad to be a 2022 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholar! #medtech #researchtranslation #commercialization #medtwitter #neurotwitter
MedTech Actuator & @MenziesFdation congratulate the 2022 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholars! The scholarship supports emerging scientists and researchers on their pathway to an impact-driven career fusing #science, #research, & #Entrepreneurship
https://t.co/ijb7mGi051
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