ProfessorPhilip de Chazal

Professor Philip de Chazal is the ResMed Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Sydney. Professor de Chazal leads the University's research and educational activities in biomedical engineering, working across the Charles Perkins Centre and the Faculty of Engineering.

A biomedical engineering and ARC Research Fellow, Professor de Chazal worked in Europe where he was the co-founder, director and Chief Technical Officer of BiancaMed, a company arising from the University College Dublin (UCD) with research focus into the detection of sleep apnoea using minimally invasive sensors. He was also a research fellow at University College Dublin and an experimental scientist with Ultrasonic Institute, CSIRO, Sydney.

He has a PhD in biomedical digital signal processing with a specialisation in applying pattern recognition techniques to biomedical signals recorded from human body. His research is focused on understanding breathing and sleeping physiology and also on developing automated diagnostic devices for monitoring of sleep and the cardiorespiratory system.

He has extensive experience in transforming university research into commercial reality. He has authored 128 articles including 26 journal publications and 102 conference papers, and is an inventor on 9 patents.