Professor Ian McLoughlin 马国岭 教授
Eur. Ing., BEng, PhD, IET Fellow, SrMIEEE, CEng
Address
ICT Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology,
SIT@NYP Building, 172A Ang Mo Kio Ave. 8,
Singapore 567739
Phone
+65 65923499
ian.mcloughlin .at. singaporetech . edu . sg
My recent books
Computer
Systems:
an embedded approach
(McGraw-Hill)
Speech and
Audio Processing:
a MATLAB-based approach
(Cambridge
University Press)
Computer
Architecture:
an embedded approach
(McGraw-Hill)
Applied
Speech & Audio Processing:
with MATLAB
examples
(Cambridge
University Press)
or view
the Chinese
Translation
计算机体系结构-嵌入式方法-
麦克洛克林
Research
A page on my Speech-related
research
... the Bionic
Voice project
...
SaVAD
(Super-Audible Voice Activity
Detection)
...Machine
Hearing /Sound
Event Detection
...AI denoising
A page on my Communications-related research
A page on my Miscellaneous research
Also an overview of some Old Projects
I was a founding member of the
Earth
Observatory of Singapore
(you
read about some of my work here,
including the revolutionary GeoTouch here)
My electromobility research included e-bikes on campus (you can also view some photos)
X-Sat: about 5 years of my life was spent leading a team to develop the computers for Singapore's first satellite. (click here for photos) and here is some more information. There is also some on the Miscellaneous research page above.
Here is some of my industrial R&D portfolio
Publications
Over 250 papers (including 5 books, 65 peer-reviewed journals, 150 peer-reviewed conference papers, 8 chapters, 11 patents), listed below:
Also see me on Google Scholar
Current students
(postgraduate)
Kelvin Summoogum (PhD, part time) -- founder of Miicare Co-supervised with Palani Ramaswamy
George Langroudi (PhD) Co-supervised with Dr Palani Ramaswamy
Also, click here to view some of my research students in China (2013-2016)
Graduated students
(postgraduate)
Ding Zhongqiang (PhD, 2001)
Hamid Reza Sharifzadeh (PhD, 2011)
Shiva Prakash Premananda (PhD, 2012)
Farzaneh Ahmadi (PhD, 2013)
Erwin Anggadjaja (PhD, 2014)
Le Thanh Hai (PhD, 2014) - final writeup supervised by Nicholas Vun Chan Hua, NTU
Nguyen Quang Huy (MSc, 2014?) - now supervised by Nicholas Vun Chan Hua, NTU
Pham Hung Thinh (PhD, 2015) - with Suhaib Fahmy, NTU
Zeng Wei (PhD) - transferred to Philip Fu, NTU
Lam Dang Pham (PhD, 2021) - co supervised with Palani Ramaswamy, Medway, Kent
Cedric Tio Meng Meng (MEng, 2000)
Fong Loong Chong (MSc, 2003) - with Kryz Pawlikowski, UOC
Milind Thakur (MSc, 2005) - with Harsha Sirisena, UOC
Jengis Lo-Ming (MSc, 2006) - with Pete Smith, UOC
Phan Quoc Huy (MEng, 2012) - main supervisor: Forest Tan Su Lim, SIT
Xu Simin (MEng, 2013) - with Suhaib Fahmy, NTU
Fan Gaofeng (MEng, NTU Singapore, 2013)
Li Jingjie (MEng, USTC, 2015)
Haomin Zhang (MEng, USTC, 2016)
Xu Yan (MEng, USTC, 2016)
Xie Zhipeng (MEng, USTC, 2016)
Jin Ma (MEng, USTC, 2017)
Qian Mengjie (PhD, 2021) – transfered to Prof. Martin Russell, The University of Birmingham, for her PhD
Teaching
Signal Analysis for Computing
Computing Systems
Information Systems Analysis
Software Engineering Process
Computer Programming/C programming
Computer Organisation and Architecture
Principles of Embedded Computing (MSc level)
Secure Embedded Systems (MSc level)
Embedded Computer Architecture (MSc level)
Embedded Operating Systems (MSc level)
Guest lecture: Algorithms to Architectures (MSc level)
Writing papers with LaTeX (MSc/PhD level)
Industry: 25 courses on Embedded Linux for Atom and ARM processors for Dreamcatcher, in Malaysia & Singapore
Industry: courseware development on Intel Atom Intelligent Systems (with Dreamcatcher & Intel)
Industry: audio and speech signal processing
Industry: DSP development notes
Computer Peripherals (old stuff)
Computer Architecture
Electronics Design (click to see slides)
University Courseware for Intel/Dreamcatcher - see it here
Personal
Where have I worked (28 years over three continents)
Where have I travelled (four continents, but where do I want to go next?)
What do I believe in (why am I here?)
The University of Birmingham featured me here
I was also a career case study for the IET
One of my hobbies was Piano restoration
Qualifications
&
Awards
2019 – Won the Univesity of Kent Students' Union Above and Beyond Award (see certificate) - thank you students :)
2016 – awarded the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) President's International Fellowship.
2015 – won the best teacher award in USTC (voted by students; thank you!)... See video of my award acceptance speech in May 2015.
2013 – won the 100 Talent
Programme funding from Anhui Province, China
Award
presented by China's Vice-Minister of Human Resources and Social
Security Zhang Jianguo, and Anhui Province Deputy Governor...
Click here
for my acceptance speech. Here is the certificate: 
Click
to see a bigger one
2013 – Elected to Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET)
2005 –
winner (with my team) of the inaugural IEE/IET
Innovation in Engineering Award
(for
product design)
Click here
to see the award itself.
GBP25 – NZ Government VIP award (Visiting Industry Professional) to assist the University of Canterbury
2003 – winner of the Steven Bly award (for service to other engineers)
1998 – achieved Chartered Engineer status, UK Engineering Council
1997 – PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham
1991 – BEng (hons) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham
'O' levels and 'A' levels from Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth, Birmingham
Funding
2019 - 2020 GBP25,000 EIRA funding on Bionic Voice
2019 - 2021 GBP250,000 (as Co-PI) Road Safety Trust funding on brain response to brake light designs
2016 – 2018 GBP60,000 Huawei HIRP funding
2016 - 2017 RMB88,000 Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI (President's International Fellowship Initiative)
2016 – 2017 US$76,898 Google Faculty Funding
2013 – 2016 RMB500,000 Anhui Provincial funding for Chinese Whispers project
2013 – 2016 RMB400,000 School startup funding for Chinese Speech Intelligibility
2013 – 2015 RMB200,000 Funding from Huawei for Machine Hearing
2012 – 2015 RMB150,000 University funding for biomimetic processing
2009 – 2012 $1.684m (personal), $250m (shared)
2006 – 2009 $891k (personal), $1.8m (shared) for embedded-related, wireless, speech
2001 – 2006 $226k (personal), $4.2m (shared) for wireless research
1999 – 2001 ~$100k in personal funding for audio-related research
Some News Items
A Computational Prosthesis for the Speech Impaired (Sept 2018) - a Think Kent vido on the latest advances in my Bionic Voice project;
Are phones listening to us?
(Nov 2018) - a popular article on what AI can learn about us through speech and audio analysis;
This is just one of my articles in The Conversation, with a readership of 500,000 people worldwide, and a wide redistribution list in international news media, TV and radio.
Research Professional: 10 Top Tips for International Collaboration (Dec 2016) - An article reporting on a talk I gave at the Global Research Opportunities Workshop (GROW) in Kent in November 2016.
New Scientist: Binge Watching Video Teaches Computers to Recognise Sounds (Nov 2016) - This article by Aviva Rutkin quotes some of my comments on a neat piece of research from a team at MIT (I'm on the second page).
Daily Mail: One small step for a man (Sept 2016) - This is the 'popular press' version of a news article I wrote for The Conversation, entitled Was Neil Armstrong misquoted? Study suggests his accent could’ve been to blame which discusses some interesting new research published in PLoS-One analysing Neil Armstrong's Mid-Western US Accent.
Netzpiloten.de: Sind Selfies die neuen Sicherheitspasswörter? (Jan 2016) - An German syndication of another article I wrote for The Conversation, entitled Selfies could replace security passwords – but only with an upgrade in which I discuss various issues related to biometrics, and in particular the growing use of voice biometrics (despite the title which sounds like it's only about video!).
NTU Research Report: Geotouch project and ETH Collaboration (2011) - A writeup of some of my research work at NTU.
Straits Times: Electric bikes that also plug you in socially (2011) - One of my 'hobbies' is eBikes, and this intersected with my research for a while, in a very small way. The Strait's Times (Singapore's national newspaper) got to hear about it and reported on some of the work.
Straits Times: A lab to study cities of the future (2010) - Another Straits Tiems article about some of my NTU work - specifically my collaboration with ETH Zurich on Future Cities (if you wonder where I am, it's the top of the third column).
Misc. links
Learning Chinese notes and resources
Getting Linux on my SA1100 hardware very old! This was my first time porting Linux in 2001
Harry Potter in the holidays!
Desiderata an anonymous, but very meaningful prayer.
John Donne wrote this poem hundreds of years ago. It tells us how all humans are connected.
Papua New Guinea - read about our church trip to PNG in 2002.
Study Skills page for students
Mission Technologies Ltd - the charity partly run by me
The Anglican Health Service of Papua New Guinea (archived website, was live from 2000 to 2019)
St Christophers Church, Avonhead, Christchuch, New Zealand
Christchurch Chinese Church, Bryndwr, Christchurch, New Zealand
Mount Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church, West Coast, Singapore
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