

As a professional engineer Adrian has worked on many and varied projects which resulted in extensive experience in the areas of software development, team management, control system design and implementation to steel production and manufacturing. As a researcher he has developed and implemented new techniques in optimization and control. Some of his achievements include: a new technique for maximal controllability of unstable systems using reduced complexity Model Predictive Control (MPC); development of tools for the classification of coal loader downtime causes; ambulance fluid deployment strategy optimization; ambulance optimal distribution and rostering to better match demand; and re-design and development of a suite of virtual laboratories for the teaching of control system design. At present his focus is on the design and testing of novel control strategies with application to the development of an artificial pancreas for better blood glucose regulation in diabetes sufferers.
Dr. Medioli’s research interests include: optimization based control strategies such as MPC; stabilization and modeling with particular emphasis on unstable systems; virtual laboratory development; and the application of control concepts and design to medical problems. He is a Member of IEEE and holds a Certificate IV in vocational training and assessment with accreditation under the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF).

Dr Diego Carrasco is a Research Academic at the University of Newcastle School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In his role he contributes to the School’s teaching and research efforts including, occasionally, lecturing discipline specific engineering courses. Diego recently completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering investigating the impact of uncertainty and sampling in the robustness and performance of dynamical systems. The design of an Artificial Pancreas involves all of these concepts and Diego is enjoying the opportunity to apply his expertise to such a beneficial project.

Carly Stephen is a Research Academic on the AAPP engineering team at the University of Newcastle. She manages the group’s communications including web development and content management, social media management and e-newsletter communications, press releases and sponsorship proposals. Carly also establishes and nurtures relationships with our donors, trial participants and members of the type 1 diabetes community in the Hunter and further afield.
Carly’s eldest son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2011 and she is now applying her combination of experience to assist the Australian Artificial Pancreas Program.
Carly’s eldest son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2011 and she is now applying her combination of experience to assist the Australian Artificial Pancreas Program.
AAPP gratefully acknowledges and appreciates the support received from BD Technologies (May 2013 – June 2014). This support allowed us to obtain important results on the fundamental limitations of blood glucose regulation. These preliminary results have inspired the direction for our subsequent research.