U Rajendra Acharya, PhD, DEng, is a visiting faculty in biomedical engineering department at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. He is also adjunct professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, adjunct faculty at Singapore Institute of Technology - University of Glasgow, Singapore, and associate faculty at Singapore Institute of Management University, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India and DEng from Chiba University, Japan. He has published more than 285 papers, including 178 papers in refereed international SCI-IF (Science Citation Index- Impact Factor) journals, as well as international conference proceedings (48), textbook chapters (62), and books (16). The h-index of Dr. Acharya’s work in SCOPUS is 25 without self-citations. He has worked on various funded projects with grants worth more than 2million SGD. He is an editorial board member of many journals, and has served as guest editor for numerous journals.