Rik Vullings is Associate Professor in the Signal Processing Systems group at Eindhoven University of Technology. He completed his PhD research in the group on analysis and interpretation of non-invasively recorded fetal electrocardiograms to aid in the timely assessment of fetal distress. This technology is now being marketed through the spinoff company Nemo Healthcare, of which Vullings is co-founder and CSO. In 2012, Vullings received a VENI grant to continue his research on pregnancy monitoring at TU/e. His research interests include biomedical signal processing and modeling, machine learning, and pattern recognition. His main medical application areas are perinatology, cardiology, and somnology.