Rate My Professor Hamish Meffin

Meffin's career trajectory includes serving as a Senior Researcher in the Victorian Research Laboratory of the National Information and Communications Technology Australia (NICTA) within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne, as well as an Honorary Fellow in the same department and at the National Vision Research Institute. He has authored or co-authored 156 publications, accumulating over 2,600 citations. Notable publications include 'Emergence of sparse coding, balance and decorrelation from a biologically-grounded spiking neural network model of learning in the primary visual cortex' (2024), 'Towards a closed loop retinal prosthesis: measuring electrically evoked retinal responses using large electrodes' (2025), 'Modelling Predictive Coding in the Primary Visual Cortex (V1): Layer 2/3 Circuits for Prediction Error Computation through Compartmentalized Spiking Neurons' (2025), 'How Stimulus Statistics Affect the Receptive Fields of Cells in Primary Visual Cortex' (2022, Journal of Neuroscience), and 'Feature selectivity and invariance in marsupial primary visual cortex' (recent). In 2015, he received the inaugural Nicola Family Fund Award from the Australian College of Optometry. His contributions advance neural interfacing technologies and computational models of visual processing.