Dr Dean Freestone has devoted his career to neural engineering. Dean finished his PhD in 2012, submitting a thesis on ‘Seizure Forecasting and Reverse Engineering the Brain’, an exploration on how to use engineering methods to better understand the brain and epilepsy, and then went on to work in the Neural Statistics Lab at Columbia University in New York and then back to Australia in 2015 to work at the Department of Medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne.
Dr Freestone’s determination drove success at all levels of academia. He won awards as an undergraduate, postgraduate, and postdoctoral researcher. These awards include Best Electronic Engineering Undergraduate, Best PhD in Engineering, the University of Melbourne’s Chancellor’s Prize, and the Victorian Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship.
As co-founder and CEO at Seer, he is highly focused on improving healthcare with technology.