Mathias Baumert

Associate Professor Mathias Baumert

Associate Professor

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Associate Professor Mathias Baumert is the Health Technology research theme leader at the School of Electrical Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide. He is an expert in biomedical signal processing with focus on dynamic electrocardiography and sleep research. Mathias is currently involved in studies investigating the beat-to-beat variability of ventricular repolarization, its physiological underpinnings and clinical research applications. In addition, he explores signal processing approaches for characterizing sleep related phenomena to derive diagnostic markers for sleep disordered breathing.

Current Research Projects

I am supervising research students in the following research areas:

Advanced Diagnostic Features of Sleep Disordered Breathing

  • Background: Sleep disordered breathing is a common disorder of sleep that has negative effects on heart and brain and is diagnosed based on a sleep study of various physiological signals. Subtle changes in heart and brain function may not be detectable using clinical standard diagnostic criteria.
  • Aim: Identification of changes in heart and brain activity during sleep using digital signal processing techniques.
  • Partners: Women's and Children's Hospital Adelaide, Adelaide Institue of Sleep Health
  • Facilities: Online repositories of overnight polysomnograms; experimental studies are possible at clinical partner laboratories 

Brain Computer Interfaces for Stroke Rehabilitation

  • Background: Stroke affects 1 in 6 people and is characterised by brain lesion that often leaves patients partly paralysed. Currently available rehabilitation techniques to regain limb function are often ineffective.
  • Aim: Development and validation of a real-time BCI system to aid rehabilitation of motor function in patients who suffered brain stroke.
  • Partners: Robinson Institute Adelaide
  • Facilities: Brain computer interface workstation, including 64 channel EEG
  • Resources: Scope TV on BCI 

Sensing of Electrical Instability in the Heart

  • Background: Electrical instability in the heart can trigger sudden cardiac death. Implantable defibrillators allow resetting (‘shocking’) the heart, but identification of patients who are at risk of sudden cardiac death is difficult and the limited sensing capability of devices can result in unnecessary electrical shocks.
  • Aim: Development of algorithm for advanced sensing of cardiac instability using electrocardiogram.
  • Partners: South Austalian Health and Medical Research Institute, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
  • Facilities: Various ECG equipment, data repositories; experimental studies are possible at clinical partner laboratories
  • Resources:  QT interval variabilityTwo-dimensional Signal Warping

 

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2014 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide
    2011 - 2015 ARC Australian Research Fellow University of Adelaide
    2011 - 2013 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
    2009 - 2010 Faculty of Health Sciences Early Career Research Fellow University of Adelaide
    2006 - 2008 ARC Postdoctoral Fellow University of Adelaide
  • Awards and Achievements

    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    2011 Fellowship Australian Research Fellowship Australian Research Council Australia -
    2011 Fellowship Career Development Award National Health and Medical Reseach Council Australia -
    2009 Fellowship Early Career Researcher Award The University of Adelaide Australia -
    2006 Fellowship Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship Australian Research Council Australia -
  • Language Competencies

    Language Competency
    English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    German Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    Ilmenau University of Technology Germany PhD
  • Research Interests

Biomedical Instrumentation (ELEC ENG 4115/7115)

Introduction to Medical Technology (ENG 3101)

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

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Principal Supervisor Stroke Patient’s Hand Impairment Neurorehabilitation and Recovery Efficacy Evaluation with Portable Bionic Device Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Linjun Lu
    2024 Principal Supervisor Automatic Sleep Stage Classification from Frequency Domain Features Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time APrf Anuva Chowdhury
    2023 Co-Supervisor Investigate effect of haemokinetic movement (HKM) and respiratory rate on heart rate variability (HRV). Assess impact on healthy people of different HKM and respiratory combinations to develop a novel exercise strategy that may address HRV deficit. Master of Clinical Science Master Part Time Mr Noah Mckenna
    2023 Principal Supervisor A conceptual framework for describing and promoting interest, acceptance, adoption, and use of mental mHealth applications among migrants and ethnic minorities in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Noorah Ibrahim S Alnaghaimshi
    2022 Principal Supervisor Using Machine Learning for Lung to Finger Circulation Time Detection Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yulin Quan
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Biomedical Signal Processing For Bioacoustic Features Extraction and Reproducibility Evaluation Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Shaykhah Abdulaziz K Almaghrabi
    2019 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Personalised Signal Processing for Cortical and Cardiac Applications Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Simanto Saha
    2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Analysis of Ventricular Depolarisation and Repolarisation Using Registration
    and Machine Learning
    Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Filip Karisik
    2018 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Improving the evidence base for treatment of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Rachel Mary Wells
    2018 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Sleep Arousal and Cardiovascular Dynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sobhan Salari Shahrbabaki
    2017 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Big data analysis of cyclic alternating pattern during sleep using deep learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Simon Hartmann
    2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Methods for Detecting and Monitoring of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children using Overnight Polysomnography Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Xiao Liu
    2013 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Cardiac Remodelling Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Diabesity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Wei Wen Lim
    2013 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Model Based Analysis of QT Variability Independent of Heart Rate and Respiration Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Fatima Jawad M El-Hamad
    2012 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Feedback Optimization for Restorative Brain-Computer Interfaces Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sam Darvishi
    2012 - 2017 Co-Supervisor An Integrated Understanding of the Effects of Sleep Disordered Breathing on the Physiology of the Developing Child Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Anna Kontos
    2011 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Polysomnographic signal processing for advanced diagnostics of paediatric sleep disordered breathing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Sarah Anita Immanuel
    2010 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Analysis of Beat-to-Beat QT Interval Variability in 12-lead ECG Signals Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Muhammad Asraful Hasan
    2008 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Detection of Cardiorespiratory Interaction for Clinical Research Applications Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Muammar Muhammad Kabir
  • Other Supervision Activities

    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2015 - 2016 External Supervisor Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Ageing in Older Men under Exclusion of Atrial Fibrillation The University of Adelaide - Master - Lo An Phan-Vogtmann
    2013 - 2013 External Supervisor Weiterentwicklung und Anwendung inhomogener Streckungsverfahren zur QT-Intervall-Extraktion in Langzeit-EKGRAKTION IN LANGZEIT-EKG The Univeristy of Adelaide Diplomingenieur Other - Martin Schmidt
  • Memberships

    Date Role Membership Country
    2016 - ongoing Member Heart Rhythm Society United States
    2012 - ongoing Member European Society of Cardiology -
    2009 - ongoing Member IEEE EMBS United States
    2006 - ongoing Member Computing in Cardiology Society United States
  • Editorial Boards

    Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
    2018 - ongoing Board Member Biomedical Signal Processing and Control - -
    2016 - ongoing Associate Editor Frontiers in Neuroscience - -
    2016 - ongoing Associate Editor IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine - -
    2015 - ongoing Associate Editor Health Information Science and Systems - -
    2012 - ongoing Associate Editor PLoS One - -
  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 83131616
  • Email: mathias.baumert@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134360
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor 3
  • Org Unit: Biomedical Engineering

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