Ramaswamy Palaniappan is currently a Reader in the School of Computing, University of Kent and heads the Data Science Research Group. His current research interests include signal processing and machine learning for electrophysiological applications. To date, he has written two text books in engineering and published over 200 papers (with over 3000 citations) in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, member in Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. He serves in editorial boards for several international journals. He also serves in the prestigious Peer Review College for UK Research Councils and many other international grant funding bodies. He has supervised more than half a dozen postgraduate students to completion and has more than two decades of multi-disciplinary teaching experience in computer science and engineering (electrical and biomedical) disciplines. His pioneering work on revolutionary new areas of brain-computer interfaces and emerging biometrics has not only received international awards and recognition by the scientific community but also from the media and public.