A diligent and resourceful development engineer, Angus specialises in electronics, software, and signal processing. Working in the Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) team at the Bionics Institute, he is part of a team looking to improve DBS as a treatment for movement disorders.

As his time as an engineer at the Bionics Institute Angus has been involved in several projects in the DBS team including working on the development of symptom monitors for Parkinson’s disease and helping develop surgical guidance systems for DBS implantation. He also works closely with clinicians to gather data necessary to guide the development of these systems.

Angus has contributed to serval papers, his work has been displayed at international conferences, and supervised several internships and a final year engineering capstone project

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6921-6390

Google scholar: Angus Begg

 

Student projects:

• Modelling and testing the mechanics of a palm worn rigidity monitor for Parkinson’s disease
  
  

Research projects involved in:

• Improved positioning for DBS (adept device)
• Improved Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease (BiRD device)
• Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation Device (ASTUTE system)

 

Publications:

1. Perera, T., Lee, W.L., Jones, M., Tan, J.L., Proud, E.L., Begg, A., Sinclair, N.C., Peppard, R. and McDermott, H.J., 2019. A palm-worn device to quantify rigidity in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of neuroscience methods, 317, pp.113-120.
2. Sinclair, N.C., McDermott, H.J., Acevedo, N., Xu, S.S., Begg, A., Perera, T., Thevathasan, W., Bulluss, K.J., 2020. Electrically evoked and spontaneous neural activity in the subthalamic nucleus under general anesthesia. Journal of Neurosurgery, 2020.
3. Sinclair, N., McDermott, H., Perera, T., Lee, W.L., Begg, A., Acevedo, N., Bulluss, K. and Thevathasan, W., 2020. Directional Deep Brain Stimulation Evoked Resonant Neural Activity: ID: 14411. Neuromodulation, 23(3).