Bernard Evans

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2024 - ongoing	Lecturer	University of Adelaide

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  German	Can read, write, speak and understand spoken

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2015 - 2018	University of Adelaide	Australia	PhD
  2011 - 2014	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Health Sciences
  2001 - 2004	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems)

• Research Interests

  Educational Technology and Computing Neurosciences Software Engineering Computational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience) Computer Vision

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2024	Hussaini, M. M., Evans, B. J. E., O'Carroll, D. C., & Wiederman, S. D. (2024). Temperature modulates the tuning properties of small target motion detector neurons in the dragonfly visual system. Current Biology, 34(18), 4332-4337. DOI Scopus1
  2024	Schwarz, M. B., O'Carroll, D. C., Evans, B. J. E., Fabian, J. M., & Wiederman, S. D. (2024). Localized and Long-Lasting Adaptation in Dragonfly Target-Detecting Neurons. eNeuro, 11(9), ENEURO.0036-1-ENEURO.0036-14. DOI
  2022	Evans, B. J. E., O'Carroll, D. C., Fabian, J. M., & Wiederman, S. D. (2022). Dragonfly Neurons Selectively Attend to Targets Within Natural Scenes. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 16, 1-13. DOI Scopus7 WoS3 Europe PMC5
  2022	Lancer, B. H., Evans, B. J. E., Fabian, J. M., O'Carroll, D. C., & Wiederman, S. D. (2022). Preattentive facilitation of target trajectories in a dragonfly visual neuron. Communications Biology, 5(1), 829-1-829-13. DOI Scopus4 WoS1 Europe PMC3
  2020	Lancer, B. H., Evans, B. J. E., & Wiederman, S. D. (2020). The visual neuroecology of anisoptera. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 42, 14-22. DOI Scopus10 WoS6 Europe PMC3
  2019	Evans, B. J. E., O'Carroll, D. C., Fabian, J., & Wiederman, S. D. (2019). Differential tuning to visual motion allows robust encoding of optic flow in the dragonfly. The Journal of Neuroscience, 39(41), 8051-8063. DOI Scopus14 WoS12 Europe PMC9
  2019	Lancer, B. H., Evans, B. J. E., Fabian, J. M., O'Carroll, D. C., & Wiederman, S. D. (2019). A target-detecting visual neuron in the dragonfly locks-on to selectively attended targets. The Journal of Neuroscience, 39(43), 8497-8509. DOI Scopus25 WoS22 Europe PMC10
  2018	Evans, B., O'Carroll, D., Fabian, J., & Wiederman, S. (2018). Differential adaptation to visual motion allows robust encoding of optic flow in the dragonfly. DOI
  2018	Lancer, B., Evans, B. J. E., Fabian, J., O'Carroll, D., & Wiederman, S. (2018). Target-detecting neurons in the dragonfly lock on to selectively attended targets. DOI

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2023	Pratt, H. C., Evans, B. J. E., Reid, I. D., & Wiederman, S. D. (2023). Ball Detection for a Lightweight Mobile Platform. In 2023 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2023 (pp. 89-96). Online: IEEE. DOI
  2020	Pratt, H., Evans, B., Rowntree, T., Reid, I., & Wiederman, S. (2020). Recurrent Motion Neural Network for Low Resolution Drone Detection. In Proceedings of the Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2020) (pp. 1-7). online: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
  2016	Evans, B., O'Carroll, D., & Wiederman, S. (2016). Salience invariance with divisive normalization in higher-order insect neurons. In A. Beghdadi, S. Bourennane, A. Bouzerdoum, M. Pedersen, L. Oudre, & R. Jiang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 6th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (pp. 1-6). Marseille, France: IEEE. DOI Scopus3
  2015	Weerasinghe, A., & Evans, B. (2015). UML-IT: an ITS to teach multiple modelling tasks. In C. Conati, N. Heffernan, A. Mitrovic, & M. Verdejo (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education Vol. 9112 (pp. 816-819). Madrid, Spain: Springer. DOI Scopus1
  2015	Evans, B., Parslow, B., O'Carroll, D., & Wiederman, S. (2015). Quantifying asynchrony of multiple cameras using aliased optical devices. In R. Jennane (Ed.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image Processing, Theory, Tools and Applications (pp. 567-572). Orleans, France: IEEE. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2015	Parslow, B., Evans, B., O'Carroll, D., & Wiederman, S. (2015). Multi-focal video fusion with a beam splitter prism. In R. Jennane (Ed.), 5th International Conference on Image Processing, Theory, Tools and Applications 2015, IPTA 2015 (pp. 556-560). Orleans, France: IEEE. DOI Scopus1 WoS1

• Datasets

  Year	Citation
  -	Evans, B. (n.d.). Lancer_et_al_2022_Communications_Biology_Public_data.zip. DOI

I am a full time lecturer in Computer Science and have lectured in the following subjects:

• Mining Big Data (Masters)
• Big Data Analysis and Project (Masters)
• Concepts in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Masters)
• Applied Machine Learning (Level 4)
• Search Based Software Engineering (Level 4)
• Using Machine Learning Tools (Level 3)
• Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning (Level 3)
• Artificial Intelligence (Level 3)
• Advanced Topics in Computer Science (Level 3)
• Operating Systems (Level 3)
• Algorithm and Data Structure Analysis (Level 2)
• Problem Solving and Software Development (Level 2)
• Systems Programming (Level 2)
• Topics in Computer Science (Level 2)
• Algorithm Design and Data Structures (Level 1)
• Introduction to Software Engineering (Level 1)

I have also been a guest lecturer for:

• Cellular and Systems Neurobiology (Level 3)
• The Neuroscience of Human Behaviour (Level 2)

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2024	Co-Supervisor	Using Explainable Machine Learning to Explore Risk Signatures for Parkinson's Disease in Integrated Medical Imaging and Clinical Data	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Ankush Gajanan Arudkar
  2022	Co-Supervisor	Elucidation of the cellular mechanisms underlying small target motion detecting neurons (STMDs) in the dragonfly	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Miss Katie Marie Skeen
  2022	Co-Supervisor	The Effect of Temperature on the Electrophysiological Properties of Dragonfly Small Target Motion Detecting Neurons	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Mahdi Hussaini

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2019 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	Lightweight and Motion Guided Neural Network Algorithms for Onboard Drone Detection and Flight	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Hamish Christopher Pratt

• Position: Lecturer
• Phone: 83139192
• Email: bernard.evans@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor Level Five
• Room: 5.44
• Org Unit: Medical Sciences