Team

The people behind MedBug.

MedBug is a Flinders University research platform, and the people on this page are who stand behind it. Investigators lead study design, overnight physiology, and what this site is allowed to publish. Engineering is responsible for the sensor kit and the SENSE models. Independent advisors sit apart from that work and can challenge how the evidence is read.

Leadership

Accountable for the project: science direction, the platform, and (later) operations.

Peter Catcheside
Chief Scientist

Flinders University

Peter Catcheside

Accountable for scientific direction and for which sleep and breathing claims this site publishes.

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Sleep and breathing physiology and multidisciplinary research leadership at Flinders. University profile linked from his name.

Duc Phuc Nguyen
Chief Engineer

Flinders University

Duc Phuc Nguyen

Responsible for the mattress sensor kit and the engineering of the MedBug platform.

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Leads engineering across hardware, capture, and how the platform is built for multi-night studies. University profile linked from his name.

Chief Executive Officer

Appointment forthcoming

Open seat for translation and operations. Does not sign off on scientific claims until appointed.

Sleep science & clinical

Responsible for protocols, scoring standards, and interpretation of overnight physiology.

Scoring & staging

Flinders University · Name to be confirmed

Name to be confirmed

Responsible for how overnight sleep stages are defined and compared with expert scoring.

Ventilation physiology

Flinders University · Name to be confirmed

Name to be confirmed

Responsible for respiratory-effort and ventilation interpretation in MedBug studies.

Clinical liaison

Flinders University · Name to be confirmed

Name to be confirmed

Responsible for how study outputs are framed for clinical research collaborators.

Study methods

Flinders University · Name to be confirmed

Name to be confirmed

Responsible for protocol design and for what a MedBug study is allowed to conclude.

Algorithms & engineering

Responsible for the mattress kit, models, and what the pipeline actually outputs.

Thi Cham Nguyen
SENSE group lead

Flinders University

Thi Cham Nguyen

Leads training and fine-tuning of MedBug SENSE, including how models are evaluated.

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Leads the algorithms group. Research summaries on this site include breathing events, ventilation, and vital signs work from this group.

Biomedical engineering

Flinders University · Name to be confirmed

Name to be confirmed

Responsible for how physiology is turned into sensed signals and labels.

Firmware & sensing

Flinders University · Name to be confirmed

Name to be confirmed

Responsible for sensor-kit firmware and overnight capture.

Translation & commercial

Move validated methods into studies and partners — not a clinical product claim.

Translation

Industry partner · Appointment forthcoming

Name to be confirmed

Responsible for partnerships and commercial translation. Does not reframe MedBug as a diagnostic product.

Independent advisors

Can contradict the project on evidence and interpretation. Independent of the build.

Independent advisor

Appointment forthcoming

Name to be confirmed

Outside the MedBug build. Listing when an independent advisor is named.

Research support

Makes studies runnable. Does not sign off on public scientific claims.

Research support

Name to be confirmed

Flinders University · Coordination, data handling, and day-to-day study operations. Listing forthcoming.

Students & HDR

Contribute under supervision. They do not sign off on public claims.

HDR

Name to be confirmed

Program to be listed. Supervised contribution.

HDR

Name to be confirmed

Program to be listed. Supervised contribution.

HDR

Name to be confirmed

Program to be listed. Supervised contribution.