Dr habil. Karol Miller

Winthrop Professor of Applied Mechanics

Director of Intelligent Systems for Medicine Lab

Phone (61 8) 6488 8545 
Fax (61 8) 6488 1024 
Email kmiller@mech.uwa.edu.au

Room 2.78 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Would you like to work with us?

ISML has just been awarded substantial funds for collaboration with Harvard Medical School: National Institute of Health (USA) Grant and Australian Research Council Linkage International Grant. Exciting opportunity for PhD research (collaboration with Harvard Medical School) exists.

 

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich – the best engineering school in Europe) has been awarded a substantial grant from Swiss National Science Foundation for “Smart Shunt. The Hydrocephalus Project”. ISML is a participant in this project. Exciting PhD research opportunities exist.

 

I have just received a Commendation for Excellence in Research Supervision -if you want a good supervisor, please join our group. The list of awards won by my research students is here.

 

 

 

 

Interests

 

 

 

Current Research

 

 

Teaching

Membership of Editorial Boards
  • Journal of Biomechanics
  • Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • Associate Editor of The Insight Journal   
  • Guest Editor of Computational Biomechanics for Medicine special section of Medical Image Analysis
  • The Open Biomedical Journal
  • RECENT PATENTS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
  • Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Consumer Health Informatics
  • The Open Numerical Methods Journal.

Qualifications and Awards
  • MSc in biomechanics - with high distinction (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, 1991) 
  • PhD in robotics - Prime Minister Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, 1994) 
  • Habilitation (DSc) in biomechanics (Polish Academy of Sciences, 2003)
  • Simulation Achievement Award from Simulation Industry Association Australia (SIAA) (2007). Award Citation.
  • J.T. Oden Fellow, University of Texas at Austin (2005)
  • Japan AIST Fellow  (2000)
  • Japan Science and Technology Agency Fellow  (1995) 
  • Young Investigator Award of Foundation for Polish Science (1993) 
  • Held scholarships in Canada, France, Italy and Switzerland. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Publications (see also http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/ISML/publications.htm)

  Biomechanics:

  • Karol Miller and Dimos Poulikakos (Eds.) "Computational Biomechanics for Medicine" Proceedings of MICCAI Workshop. Copenhagen. Oct. 2006. ISBN 10:87-7611-149-0. 163 p.
  • Karol Miller, Keith D. Paulsen, Alistair A. Young, Poul M.F. Nielsen (Eds.) "Computational Biomechanics for Medicine II" Proceedings of MICCAI Workshop. Brisbane. Oct. 2007. 160 p.
  • Adam Wittek, Karol Miller, Ron Kikinis and Simon K. Warfield (2007) "Patient-Specific Model of Brain Deformation: Application to Medical Image Registration", Journal of Biomechanics, 40, pp. 919-929 doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.02.021
  • Karol Miller, Grand Joldes, Dane Lance and Adam Wittek (2007) "Total Lagrangian Explicit Dynamics Finite Element Algorithm for Computing Soft Tissue Deformation" Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 23: pp. 121-134 DOI: 10.1002/cnm.887
  • Zeike Taylor and Karol Miller (2006) "Constitutive Modelling of Cartilaginous Tissues: A Review" Journal of Applied Biomechanics. Vol. 22. pp.210-227
  • Miller K., Taylor Z. and Nowinski W.L. (2005) "Towards computing brain deformations for diagnosis, prognosis and neurosurgical simulation", J. Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 5(1), pp.105-121
  • Taylor Z. and Miller K. (2004) "Reassessment of brain elasticity for analysis of biomechanisms of hydrocephalus" J. Biomechanics. Vol. 37/8. 1263-1269
  • Miller, K. and Chinzei, K., "Mechanical Properties of Brain Tissue in Tension", J. Biomechanics, Vol 35/4, pp. 483-490, 2002 
  • Miller K., Chinzei K., Orssengo G. and Bednarz P. , "Mechanical properties of brain tissue in-vivo: experiment and computer simulation", J. Biomechanics, Vol. 33, pp. 1369-1376, 2000 
  • Miller, K. "Constitutive Model of Abdominal Organs", J. Biomechanics., Vol. 33/3, pp. 367-373, 2000. 
  • Miller, K., "Modelling Soft Tissue Using Biphasic Theory - A Word of Caution". Comp. Meth. Biomech. Biomed. Eng., Vol.1, pp.261-263, 1998. 
  • Miller, K., Chinzei K., "Constitutive Modelling of Brain Tissue; Experiment and Theory", J. Biomech., Vol. 30, No. 11/12, pp. 1115-1121, 1997. 

Robotics

  • Miller K. (2004) "Optimal Design and Modelling of Spatial Parallel Manipulators". Int. J. Robotics Research. Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 127-140 (invited)
  • Stock, M. and Miller, K. (2003) "Optimal Kinematic Design of Spatial Parallel Manipulators; Application to Linear Delta Robot." Trans. ASME J. Mech. Design, 125 (2): 292-301.
  • Miller, K. "Maximization of Workspace Volume of 3-DOF Spatial Parallel Manipulators." Trans. ASME J. Mech. Design, Vol.124, No.2, pp.347-350, 2002. 
  • Chinzei K. and Miller, K. "Towards MRI guided surgical manipulator", Med. Sci. Monit., 2001; 7(1): 153-163 . 
  • Miller K., "Experimental Verification of Modeling of DELTA Robot Dynamics by Direct Application of Hamilton's Principle," IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 1995, Nagoya, Japan, pp. 532-537. 
  • Miller K., Clavel R., "The Lagrange-based model of Delta-4 robot dynamics," Robotersysteme 8, Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. 49-54. 

Patents:

  • "Parallel Robot." Australian Provisional Patent Application, No. PP7518, December 1998. 
  • "Ultra-fast MR imaging method based on slow changes of magnetic field gradient." Japanese Patent JPAT3,136,323, 8 December 2000 (with Chinzei K., Homma K. and Hyodo K.) 
  • "Drill Hole Cap." Australian Provisional Patent Application, No. PS0896, 2002 (with P. Brozicevich). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other interests:

·         ·        Tennis: Runner-up in the UWA Tennis Club Championships in 1999, 2000 and 2001 (unlucky!!!), semifinalist in 2003, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Competition bridge:

    • Winner of 2003 Singapore Pesta Sukan Consolation Teams (5th overall) - see photo. The man is the middle is the Vice President of World Bridge Federation Mr Patrick Choy
    • Winner (with Tony Lusk) of 2006 WA Open Butler Selection - see photo
    • 7th in 2007 Australian National Championships Open Butler (with Tony Lusk)
    • Winner of 2008 WA PQP Selection (with Gerry Daly)
    • Winner of 2009 WA Open Butler Selection (with Gerry Daly)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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