Professor Sven Nordholm received a PhD in Signal Processing from Lund University, Sweden in 1992. Since 1999, he has been a full professor at Curtin University in Western Australia. Prof Nordholm was a founding member of Hearmore and Sensear. His research activities over the past 30 years focus on signal processing and communication in acoustic media and speech processing. He is the holder of 7 patents and has contributed more than 200 technical papers.