Dr Andrea DeMarco was awarded a PhD in Computing Sciences from the University of East Anglia (UEA), England. His research focus was the development of machine learning algorithms for the acoustic modelling of spoken accents applied to speech recognition systems. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Malta, holding a position at the Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy, and the Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology. His scientific interests include the application of machine learning algorithms in different domains including computational astronomy, computational physics and intelligent speech systems.