Senior Research Engineer
Canberra Research Laboratory

Biography

Previous Positions

Prior to taking up her position with NICTA beginning of 2004, Dr Lieby worked for five years as a software engineer/research programmer with the Magma Computational Algebra Group at the University of Sydney.
During her undergraduate and postgraduate years, Dr Lieby held various positions as tutor, lecturer and research assistant.
Before undertaking her studies, she was employed in many different capacities, among other as a factory worker, a public servant and a programmer/analyst programmer.
 
Qualifications

1999: PhD in Pure Mathematics from Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australia.
1994: Honours Degree (1C) in Computer Science and Mathematics, CDU.

Research Interests

Dr Lieby's research interests include extremal problems in finite sets and algorithm optimization.
She has been leading the AASEDP project whose aim is to develop tools and techniques to improve understanding and characterization of the morphological shape changes of the hippocampus over time. Her  research focus included analysis of 3D shapes and the definition of new shape descriptors.

She has now joined the VIBE project (Vision processing for the Bionic Eye) where her primary focus will be the problem of efficiently encoding a (high resolution) image into a low resolution retinal stimulation array. One focus for VIBE is visual processing for the retinal implant, and a key question is the ability to elicit, via retinal electrical stimulation, as accurate/useful a visual percept as possible in the wearer of the implant.