Professor Ian McLoughlin (马国岭), served as Cluster Director in Singapore Institute of Technology  (Singapore's 5th university) from 2020-2024, was previously a professor and Head of the School of Computing at the University of Kent (Medway Campus) from 2015-2019, a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China NELSLIP lab from 2012-2015. Before that he spent 10 years at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and 10 years in the electronics R&D industry in New Zealand and the UK. Professor McLoughlin became a Chartered Engineer in 1998 and a Fellow of the IET in 2013. He has over 250 papers, 4 books and 13 patents in the fields of speech & audio AI, wireless communications and embedded systems, and has steered numerous technical innovations to successful conclusions and received over $100 million in grant funding as a PI.