
Tom graduated from ANU in 2017 with first class honours in a Bachelor of Engineering. He then worked as a research assistant at QUT for Dr. Anjali Jaiprakash on the Retinal Plenoptoscope project, where he helped to design and build a light field camera for imaging a human retina.
His PhD involved using the Raven-II surgical robotic platform to perform eye surgery and was supervised by Prof. Jonathan Roberts, Dr. Anjali Jaiprakash, and D.Prof. Peter Corke.