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Prof Cheng Siong Chin is a Chair Professor in Intelligent Systems Modelling and Simulation at Newcastle University. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Control Engineering at Research Robotics Centre at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2008 and his M.Sc. (Distinction) in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering from The University of Manchester in 2001. Before moving into academia, he worked in the consumer electronics industry for a few years. He obtained 6 Economic Development Board (EDB)-Industrial Postgraduate Programme (IPP) and 2 Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) grants from the Singapore government in intelligent systems design, simulation, and predictive analytics as a PI and Co-PI. He has obtained more than 170 publications, 5 authored books, 2 Singapore Patent Applications, and 3 US Patents. He also received DCASE2019 Judges' Award in IEEE AASP Challenge on DCASE2019. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access Journal and Applied Artificial Intelligence.