Professor Ian McLoughlin spent over 10 years working for the electronics R&D industry and 20 years in academia. He has worked and consulted in 5 countries on three continents and presented his work to government science ministers of UK, Russia, USA, Malaysia, Taiwan, New Zealand and to the President of Singapore. He became a Chartered Engineer (UK) in 1998, a Senior member of IEEE in 2004 a D’Ingenieur Europeen (EU) in 2008 and an IET Fellow in 2013. He has published over 250 refereed papers, four books and several book chapters in the fields of speech & audio, wireless communications and embedded systems. He is currently a Cluster Director in Singapore Institute of Technology.