Rate My Professor Richard Jones

Professor Richard Jones serves as Honorary Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch, within the Division of Health Sciences. He obtained his BE (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury in 1974, followed by an ME in 1975 from the same institution, and a PhD in Medicine from the University of Otago in 1987. His career encompasses professorial roles at the University of Otago's Department of Medicine, Christchurch; adjunct professorships in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing at the University of Canterbury; and as Senior Biomedical Engineer in Medical Physics and Bioengineering at Canterbury District Health Board. Additionally, he directed the Christchurch Neurotechnology Research Programme. Jones holds fellowships including FACPSEM, FIPENZ, FAIMBE, FInstP, and FIEEE, and was recognized as Supervisor of the Year at the University of Canterbury in 2013 and 2015.

His research focuses on biomedical and neural engineering, particularly lapses of responsiveness (behavioural microsleeps and attention lapses), detected via behavioural and electrophysiological measures and investigated with simultaneous fMRI, EEG, tracking, and video; human performance engineering, developing computerized tests for upper-limb sensory-motor and cognitive functions in brain disorders such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, and traumatic brain injury, including driving assessments; sleep and sleep disorders; signal processing for epileptic activity detection in clinical neurophysiology; neural control of swallowing; and forensic brainwave analysis. He has contributed editorially as Editor of the Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering Theme for IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society conferences and past Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and Journal of Neural Engineering. Notable publications include Buckley et al. (2024) on cerebral perfusion in obstructive sleep apnoea (Sleep and Breathing); Zaky et al. (2024) on mind-blanks during visuomotor tracking (Human Brain Mapping); Afzali et al. (2022) on Brain Fingerprinting for concealed knowledge detection (Psychophysiology); and Poudel and Jones (2022) on multimodal neuroimaging (Handbook of Neuroengineering).