Professor Roberto Togneri received the Ph.D degree in 1989 from the University of Western Australia. He joined the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at The University of Western Australia in 1988 and now holds a Senior Honorary Research Fellow appointment. Professor Togneri’s research activities in signal processing and pattern recognition include: feature extraction and enhancement of audio signals, statistical and neural network models for speech and speaker recognition, audio-visual recognition and biometrics, and related aspects of language modelling and understanding. He has received over 3500 citations since 2018 in the areas of signal processing, awarded the Education Innovation Award for ground-breaking contributions to teaching in Signals and Systems at ICASSP 2019, a chief investigator on three Australian Research Council Discovery Project research grants 2009 to 2017, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Society publications from 2012 to 2016, and Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Columns and Forums from 2018 to 2020