Dr Nara Liu, Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Nara Liu is a Research Engineer at the Bionics Institute, completing her PhD at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne in 2024
Dr. Nara Liu is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in neuroengineering and computational neuroscience. Her doctoral research focused on understanding and optimising endovascular stimulation of peripheral nerves through the integration of computational modelling, pre-clinical experiments, and biosignal analysis.
At the Bionics Institute, Nara works with A/Prof Sophie Payne and Dr. Tomoko Hyakumura to develop computational models of biological systems that investigate how vagus nerve stimulation parameters affect therapeutic outcomes in seizure control for individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy. This work is conducted as part of the Vagus Nerve Stimulation Centre of Excellence.
ORCiD link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3329-9796
Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MU7t0GAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Publications
Recent publications:
– Liu J, Grayden DB, Keast JR, John SE. Endovascular stimulation of the pudendal nerve using a stent-mounted electrode array. J Neural Eng. 2024 Aug 13;21(4)
– Liu J, Grayden DB, Keast JR, Booth LC, May CN, John SE. Feasibility of endovascular stimulation of the femoral nerve using a stent-mounted electrode array. J Neural Eng. 2024 Jun 7;21(3).
– Liu, J.Y., et al., Computational Modelling of an Endovascular Peripheral Nerve Interface. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2021. p. 5966-5969.
– Liu, J.Y., et al., Computational modelling of endovascular peripheral nerve stimulation using a stent-mounted electrode array. Journal of Neural Engineering, 2023. 20(3): 036013.
