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Professor Richard Reilly

Research Chair of Neural Engineering (School Office - Engineering)

 Richard.Reilly@tcd.ie

 

Director - Centre for Bioengineering (Trinity Centre for Bioengineering)

 (3531896) 1738

Director - Centre for Bioengineering (School Office - Medicine)

Director - Centre for Bioengineering (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)

 (3531896) 4214

Director - Centre for Bioengineering (Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN))

 (3531896) 8471


Biography

Professor of Neural Engineering at Trinity College, a joint position between the School of Medicine and School of Engineering. A Principal Investigator at the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering and at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He was Program Director of Education in Bioengineering at Trinity College (2012-16. His research focuses on the processing of signals that diagnose the human physiological and cognitive state: non-invasive electrophysical biomarkers for cognitive function, patient-oriented neurodiagnostics methods, neural prosthetics and therapeutic neuromodulation devices. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is past President of the European Society of Engineering and Medicine, a member of the Board of Tallaght Hospital in Dublin and a member of the Health Products Regulatory Authority of Ireland's Advisory Committee on Medical Device. In 2004, he was awarded a US Fulbright Award for research collaboration into multisensory integration with the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York. He is a former Silvanus P. Thompson International Lecturer for the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has established two companies based on his research activities. Professor Reilly received his BE degree in Electronic Engineering, an MEngSc and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University College Dublin. He has authored and co-authored over 400 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals and conferences.

Research Tags

  Aging/Gerontology   Assistive Technology (Handicapped)   Asthma   Bioelectric Phenomena   Bioengineering   Biomedical Engineering   Biomedical Research, Multidisciplinary   Brain   Clinical Engineering   Communicative Disorders, Hearing   Communicative Disorders, Speech   Dementia   Dystonia   Elderly Health   Emotional/Mental Health--Geriatric   Instruments/Instrumentation/Devices (Health/M   Medical Devices   Medical Instrumentation   Medical/Diagnostic Imaging   Neurodegenerative Diseases/Disorders   Neuroimaging   Neurological Disorders   Neurophysiology   Neuropsychology   Parkinson's Disease   Physiological Controls and Systems   Prosthetic Device, Hearing   Prosthetic Device, Neural   Prosthetic Device, Speech   Prosthetic Device, Vision   Schizophrenia   Speech Pathology

Research Projects

 Temporal Discrimination Threshold as a mediational endophenotype in adult onset primary torsion dystonia
 Spectral and Temporal Processing in Cochlear Implant Users
 Development of a system to objectively and longitudinally assess adherence to respiratory medications
 Postural Instability as an Endophenotype for early Dysfunction and Decline
 Multisensory Integration: A high-density EEG approach using ecologically valid stimuli

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Representations

Details Date
Associate Editor and Editorial board member of IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM) 2014
Editorial Board member of the IET's Healthcare Technology Letters 2013
Editorial Board of Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, a specialty of Frontiers in Neuroscience 2013
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, since 1992
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 1996 - 2002
Reviewer for Journal Signal Processing
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2005-2009

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Spanish Fluent Medium Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) 2012
American Academy of Neurology 2015
European Academy of Neurology 2016
President of the European Society of Engineering and Medicine 2010 2014
Fellow of the European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science 2015
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI) 2010
Senior Member: Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Member: Institution of Engineers of Ireland (EngineersIreland)
Board member of European Society for Engineering and Medicine (ESEM)
Member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Member of International Neuromodulation Society and Neuromodulation Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland
Member of the Society of Neuroscience (SFN)
Member of the Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience (IICN)
Hablani, S. and Orhiggins, C.M. and Walsh, D. and Reilly, R.B., Neural based assessment of mind wandering during a fatigueinducing motor task: Is task failure due to fatigue or distraction?, 2019-March, (8717037), 2019, pp45-48 , Notes: [cited By 0], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Waechter, S.M. and Simoes-Franklin, C. and Smith, J. and Viani, L. and Reilly, R.B., Cochlear implant artefact reduction in electroencephalography data obtained with the auditory oddball paradigm and stimuli with differing envelopes â^-, 2019-March, (8717040), 2019, pp203-206 , Notes: [cited By 0], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Orkeeffe, C. and Taboada, L.P. and Feerick, N. and Gallagher, L. and Lynch, T. and Reilly, R.B., Employing an entropy-based measure of sway to probe postural stability in Fragile X Premutation carriers, 2019-March, (8717071), 2019, pp259-262 , Notes: [cited By 0], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
O'Keeffe, C. and Taboada, L.P. and Feerick, N. and Gallagher, L. and Lynch, T. and Reilly, R.B., Complexity based measures of postural stability provide novel evidence of functional decline in fragile X premutation carriers, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 16, (1), 2019, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mamad, O. and Agayby, B. and Stumpp, L. and Reilly, R.B. and Tsanov, M., Extrafield activity shifts the place field center of mass to encode aversive experience, eNeuro, 6, (2), 2019, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Narasimham, S. and McGovern, E.M. and Quinlivan, B. and Killian, O. and Beck, R. and O†Riordan, S. and Hutchinson, M. and Reilly, R.B., Neural correlates of abnormal temporal discrimination in unaffected relatives of cervical dystonia patients, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13, (8), 2019, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Saskia M. Waechter, Alejandro Lopez Valdes, Cristina Simoes-Franklin, Laura Viani, Richard B. Reilly, Depth matters - Towards finding an objective neurophysiological measure of behavioral amplitude modulation detection based on neural threshold determination, Hearing Research, 2018, p13-22 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Maguire, F.J., Killane, I., Creagh, A.P., Donoghue, O., Kenny, R.A., Reilly, R.B., Baseline Association of Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome With Sustained Attention, Memory, and Global Cognition, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 19, (1), 2018, p53-58 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Taylor TE, Lacalle Muls H, Costello RW, Reilly RB., Estimation of inhalation flow profile using audio-based methods to assess inhaler medication adherence., PloS one, 13, (1), 2018, pe0191330 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Cushen B, Sulaiman I, Greene G, MacHale E, Mokoka M, Reilly RB, Bennett K, van Boven JF, Costello RW., The Clinical Impact of Different Adherence Behaviours in Patients with Severe COPD., American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2018, p1-12-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Whelan R, Bradley D, Walsh R, Reilly RB, Hutchinson SMolloy F, Hutchinson M , Temporal discrimination thresholds in AOPTD - voxel-based morphometry in unaffected relatives validates a new endophenotype, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery Psychiatry , ABN joint annual meeting 2009 with the Spanish Society of Neurology, Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool, 2009, 22-26 June, 80, (11), BMJ, 2009, ppe1 , Notes: [ ], Meeting Abstract, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
IBM Faculty award 2016
Samuel Haughton Silver Medal, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland 2013
Intel Award for Innovation 2007
University College Dublin President's Research Fellowship 2004
Excellence in Neural Engineering Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, US National Science Foundation and US Office of Naval Research 2005
Fulbright Award 2004
S.P. Thompson International Lecturer for the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) 1998-2000
Best Paper and Speaker Award, Bioengineering in Ireland Conference. 1995
Hewlett Packard Award for Design, Dublin 1987

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Neural engineering: Advanced, original neural signal processing methods to create novel and leading-edge, patient-oriented neurodiagnostics methods along with neural prosthetics and therapeutic neuromodulation devices. Coupling unique and advanced neural engineering to patient needs from neurological disorders, brain trauma and insult through to understanding pathophysiology cognitive, sensory and motor functions.