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Dr Wei Tong is an ARC DECRA (Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) Fellow and a group leader in the School of Physics, at The University of Melbourne. Her research combines carbon materials and neurophysiology, aiming at developing advanced technologies for robust, high resolution neural stimulation, neural recording and neurotransimitter sensing. Since 2012, she has been extensively involved in the development of a diamond-based retinal prosthesis, the Diamond Eye, for restoring high-quality vision to the blind. This development was started with Bionic Vision Australia, followed by an Australian-Canadian company, iBionics. Currently, she is working on several cutting-edge neural interfacing concepts for vision restoration. She is also coordinating the preclinical evaluation of the Carbon Cybernetics prototype, a small brain implant for epilepsy and depression management.

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