Prior to joining NTU in 2003, he has worked in several leading research centers/companies, namely: Knowles Electronics (USA), Lernout and Hauspie (Belgium), Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R, Singapore), and RIKEN (Japan). He received both PhD and BENG (Hons) from Edinburgh University, Scotland, in 1996 and 1991 respectively. His area of focus is in speech research and signal processing. To date, he has received numerous external research grants as principal investigator with a total funding amount of S$3.4 million for the “Speech and Language Technology Program (SLTP) ” at SCE. His publications include 2 edited books and over 100 journal/conference papers. He has graduated 4 PhD students