DrStephen Redmond

I am an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD). I completed my Bachelor of (Electronic) Engineering at UCD in 2002. I also completed my PhD in biosignal processing at the same institute, in 2006, on the topic of at-home sleep staging. I spent 10 years at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, before returning to UCD in 2018 to lead a Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award project on the topic of tactile sensing. I am also a co-founder of the tactile sensor company Contactile: www.contactile.com

I have an interest in the use of signal processing and pattern recognition techniques, combined with novel sensing hardware solutions, in order to bring longitudinal health monitoring into the home. In particular, I have extensive experience monitoring human movement using wearable sensors, and in the robust measurement of physiological signals (ECG, BP & PPG) in unsupervised environments. I also have a research stream on the topic of tactile sensing, spanning from the study of human tactile physiology, through to the development of friction-sensing tactile sensors for robotic grippers. More recently, our group has been interested in the use of deep neural networks for medical image segmentation, and for use with reinforcement learning to enable autonomous dexterous robotic manipulation.