Daniel Wong

Daniel Wong received his Masters (2008) and PhD (2012) degrees from the University of Toronto Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, with funding from the Ontario Graduate Scholarship program and the University of Toronto Open Fellowship. As a PhD candidate, he studied the effects of bilateral cochlear implantation on the development of auditory pathways in children at Archie's Cochlear Implant Laboratory in SickKids. In the process, he developed a neural source localization method capable of analyzing datasets contaminated with electrical artifacts produced by cochlear implants.
He is interested in the application of signal processing techniques to medical imaging with neuroelectric data. He is involved with the development of the Nutmeg and FieldTrip neuroimaging Matlab toolboxes, particularly with respect to the development and integration of MRI segmentation and head tissue conductivity model computation pipelines.

He received an Erasmus Mundus award in 2012 and is currently studying the effects of unilateral cochlear implantation in adults with sudden onset unilateral hearing loss at Universität Konstanz, in collaboration with the Universitätsspital Zürich and the Max Planck Institute for Cognition and Neuroscience. Additionally, he is working in collaboration with INSERM in Lyon on developing methods to locate sources of neural activity from depth electrode data recorded simultaneously with fMRI. As a smaller project, he is investigating the possibility of using standard whole-head magnetoencephalography to detect electrical activity generated by the retina.