Proceedings of the 10th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology | IRC-SET 2024, 17 August, Singapore

This book presents peer reviewed articles from IRC-SET 2024 held on 17August in Singapore. It highlights the contemporary state of research in multi-disciplinary areas of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Healthcare, and Business Technology. The papers presented here were shortlisted after extensive rounds of rigorous reviews by a panel of esteemed individuals who are pioneers and experts in their respective domains.

Dr Huaqun Guo is Associate Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology, President of International Researchers Club, and Steering Committee Member for IRC Conference on Science Engineering and Technology (IRC-SET). Dr Guo obtained her BEng and MEng from Tianjin University, and her MEng and PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS) respectively. She had worked as Senior Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) for more than 16 years. Before joining I2R, she was a senior research staff at NUS and senior engineer at Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL). She has published 100+ referred papers in the international conferences, journals and books. Her research areas include network security, AI (artificial intelligence) for cyber security, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) security, blockchain, applied cryptography, vehicular networks and security, communications, and security risk analysis.

Professor Ian McLoughlin has published over 250 papers, more than 10 patents and 4 single author books, mainly in areas of speech/audio AI, signal processing and embedded systems. He was a founding PIs of a National Research Foundation (Singapore) funded Research Centre of Excellence in 2009 ($150m), and to date has received personal research funding of over $10m from sources such as Huawei, Google, National Medical Research Council, AI Singapore, Ministry of Education (in Singapore, China, and New Zealand) and Innovate UK. He is a Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Fellow, was recipient of 100 talent funding from Anhui Province in 2014, and was a UK Royal Society partner in science in 2016. He has been a full professor for more than a decade, and presently serves as ICT Cluster Director in Singapore Institute of Technology.

Dr Umayal Lakshmanan is the chief scientist at the MedTech startup, SenzeHub, a social enterprise that develops technological solutions to meet the ageing community challenges. She is a MedTech venture builder and social entrepreneur along with a decade of experience in leading drug discovery projects in the fields of Oncology and Infectious diseases. She has led multiple drug discovery collaboration projects with local and international Institutes and Universities. She has played important roles in various oncology drug discovery campaigns with diverse targets in the biomedical field.  She has been an invited as well as selected speaker in various international conferences and symposiums on Drug discovery and a guest lecturer at NUS, Singapore.

Dr Xiaoxiao Miao is an assistant professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) since November 2023. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan from September 2021 to October 2023. She received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences/University Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2021. Her research interests include speech security, speaker and language recognition, and machine learning. She is a co-organizer of the VoicePrivacy challenge 2022 and 2024.

Dr Eyasu Getahun Chekole is currently a Research Fellow in Cybersecurity at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Previously, he was a Research Scientist in Cybersecurity at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore, an Assistant Researcher in Cybersecurity at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Italy, a Software Engineer at Femar Consulting s.r.l in Italy, and a Software Engineer at the Information Network Security Assurance (INSA) in Ethiopia. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Singapore University of Technology and Design (in Singapore), an MSc in Computer Science from University of Trento (in Italy), and a BSc in Computer Science & IT from Arba Minch University (in Ethiopia). His research interests include software and system security, memory safety, industrial control and cyber-physical systems security, IoT security, applied cryptography, and Blockchain.

Dr Weizhi Meng is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Prior to joining DTU, he worked as Research Scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research, A*Star, Singapore. He won the Outstanding Academic Performance Award during his doctoral study, and is a recipient of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers in both 2014 and 2017. He also received the IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, & Africa Region (EMEA) in 2020. His primary research interests are cyber security and artificial intelligence in security, including intrusion detection, IoT security, biometric authentication, trust management, and blockchain. He is currently directing the SPTAGE Lab at DTU.

Dr Peng Cheng Wang is currently an Associate Professor in Singapore Institute of Technology. Dr Victor Wang graduated from Loughborough University with a First in Aeronautical Engineering (BEng, 2008) before reading his Doctorate in Aerodynamics, specialising in Computational Fluids Dynamics (2012). His current research interest is in Applied Aerodynamics, using both computational and experimental methods to capture complex but interesting flow behaviors that can be applied to a wide range of Engineering Applications. Dr Victor Wang is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Dr Jiqiang Lu received a BSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Yantai University (China) in 2000, a MEng degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Xidian University (China) in 2003, and a PhD degree from Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) in 2008. From 2008 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Ecole Normale Superieure (France), and a scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore). Currently, he is a professor at Behang University (China), and his research interests centre on symmetric cryptology and its applications.

Dr Nicholas Heng Loong Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Infocomm Technology Cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He received the BE (Honours Class 1) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; the MS degree in Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; and the PhD degree in Optoelectronics from the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. His previous roles include test engineering at DenseLight Semiconductors, Singapore; and software development and data science and analytics at GlobalFoundries, Singapore. His research interests include photonics and optical communications, wireless communications, quantum communications, data science, educational technology, and educational outreach. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); and a Member of SPIE, Optica, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).