André van Schaik

Professor of electrical engineering

Professor André van Schaik at Western Sydney University

André van Schaik is a professor of electrical engineering at the Western Sydney University, and director of the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to neuromorphic circuits and systems".[1]

## Education[edit]

Van Schaik received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, in 1990, and his Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1998.[citation needed]

## Career[edit]

As an undergraduate student, Van Schaik was an intern at the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart, where we researched limits to the fault tolerance of feedforward neural networks, which led to a widely cited scientific publication.[2]

After completing his M.Sc degree, he worked as an engineer at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, where he designed a neuromorphic optical motion-tracking chip[3] for the Logitech TrackMan Marble, which came on the market in 1994; as of 2023, that device is still sold,[4] still with his original chip design, nearly 30 years old.

In 1994, he started his PhD research in the MANTRA Centre for Neuro-Mimetic Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland under supervision of Eric Vittoz, a pioneer of low-power VLSI and co-developer of the EKV MOSFET model, and in close collaboration with Ray Meddis, who was an expert in computer simulation of the auditory pathway. His thesis is titled "Analogue VLSI building blocks for an electronic auditory pathway"[5] led to a journal article with Meddis.[6]

In 1998 he joined the laboratory of Simon Carlile in the Department of Physiology at the University of Sydney as a postdoctoral research fellow, where he collaborated on the development of spatial audio over headphones, termed virtual auditory space.[7]

In 1999 he joined the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney as a Senior Lecturer, where he started the Computing and Audio Research Laboratory,[8] together with Craig Jin.[9] He was promoted to Reader in 2004.[10] In 2003 he was awarded an Australian Research Council ARC Research Fellowship followed by an ARC Queen Elisabeth II Research Fellowship in 2008.

In 2011 he became a research professor at Western Sydney University and leader of the Biomedical Engineering and Neuromorphic Systems (BENS) Research Program in the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development.[10] In 2018, he became the Director of the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems.[10]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "IEEE Fellow Recipients". IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
2. ^ Nijhuis, Jos; B. Hofflinger; André van Schaik; Lambert Spaanenburg (1990). "Limits to the fault-tolerance of a feedforward neural network with learning". Fault-Tolerant Computing: 20th International Symposium: 228–229. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
3. ^ Arreguit, Xavier; F. Andre Van Schaik; François V. Bauduin; Marc Bidiville; Eric Raeber (1996). "A CMOS motion detector system for pointing devices". IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 31 (12): 1916–1921. Bibcode:1996IJSSC..31.1916A. doi:10.1109/4.545813. S2CID 16107435. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
4. ^ "Logitech TrackMan Marble Trackball Review". Trackball Mouse. 2 September 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
5. ^ Van Schaik, André (1998). Analogue VLSI building blocks for an electronic auditory pathway. Retrieved 3 February 2023. `{{cite book}}`: `|website=` ignored (help)
6. ^ Van Schaik, André; Ray Meddis (1991). "Analog very large-scale integrated (VLSI) implementation of a model of amplitude-modulation sensitivity in the auditory brainstem". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 105 (2): 811–821. doi:10.1121/1.426270. PMID 9972566. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
7. ^ Jin, Craig; Anna Corderoy; Simon Carlile; André van Schaik (1999). "Spectral Cues in Human Sound Localization". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 12. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
8. ^ "Infrastructure – Computing and Audio Research Laboratory". University of Sydney – Faculty of Engineering. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
9. ^ "People – Associate Professor Craig Jin". University of Sydney – Faculty of Engineering. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
10. ^ a b c "International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems – Professor André van Schaik". Western Sydney University.

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