Proceedings of the 10th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology

This book presents peer reviewed articles from IRC-SET 2024 held on 17August in Singapore. It highlights the contemporary state of research in multi-disciplinary areas of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Healthcare, and Business Technology. The papers presented here were shortlisted after extensive rounds of rigorous reviews by a panel of esteemed individuals who are pioneers and experts in their respective domains.

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Dr Huaqun Guo is Associate Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology, President of International Researchers Club, and Steering Committee Member for IRC Conference on Science Engineering and Technology (IRC-SET). Dr Guo obtained her BEng and MEng from Tianjin University, and her MEng and PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS) respectively. She had worked as Senior Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) for more than 16 years. Before joining I2R, she was a senior research staff at NUS and senior engineer at Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL). She has published 100+ referred papers in the international conferences, journals and books. Her research areas include network security, AI (artificial intelligence) for cyber security, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) security, blockchain, applied cryptography, vehicular networks and security, communications, and security risk analysis.

Professor Ian McLoughlin has published over 250 papers, more than 10 patents and 4 single author books, mainly in areas of speech/audio AI, signal processing and embedded systems. He was a founding PIs of a National Research Foundation (Singapore) funded Research Centre of Excellence in 2009 ($150m), and to date has received personal research funding of over $10m from sources such as Huawei, Google, National Medical Research Council, AI Singapore, Ministry of Education (in Singapore, China, and New Zealand) and Innovate UK. He is a Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Fellow, was recipient of 100 talent funding from Anhui Province in 2014, and was a UK Royal Society partner in science in 2016. He has been a full professor for more than a decade, and presently serves as ICT Cluster Director in Singapore Institute of Technology.

Dr Umayal Lakshmanan is the chief scientist at the MedTech startup, SenzeHub, a social enterprise that develops technological solutions to meet the ageing community challenges. She is a MedTech venture builder and social entrepreneur along with a decade of experience in leading drug discovery projects in the fields of Oncology and Infectious diseases. She has led multiple drug discovery collaboration projects with local and international Institutes and Universities. She has played important roles in various oncology drug discovery campaigns with diverse targets in the biomedical field. She has been an invited as well as selected speaker in various international conferences and symposiums on Drug discovery and a guest lecturer at NUS, Singapore.

Dr Xiaoxiao Miao is an assistant professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) since November 2023. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan from September 2021 to October 2023. She received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences/University Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2021. Her research interests include speech security, speaker and language recognition, and machine learning. She is a co-organizer of the VoicePrivacy challenge 2022 and 2024.

Dr Eyasu Getahun Chekole is currently a Research Fellow in Cybersecurity at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Previously, he was a Research Scientist in Cybersecurity at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore, an Assistant Researcher in Cybersecurity at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Italy, a Software Engineer at Femar Consulting s.r.l in Italy, and a Software Engineer at the Information Network Security Assurance (INSA) in Ethiopia. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Singapore University of Technology and Design (in Singapore), an MSc in Computer Science from University of Trento (in Italy), and a BSc in Computer Science &am

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1The Evaluation of Music's Effect on Pain Tolerance and perception using EEG.- MElodious MEmory (MEME): Syncing Music and Electroencephalogram (EEG) Neurofeedback to Enhance Short Term Memory Retention and Recall.- Halcyon An AI Powered Forum with Automated Hate Speech Detection.- Assessment of the umami flavour of commercial meat and plant-based meat analogues.- Comparative study of tying a surgical knot using conventional instrumentation and haptic feedback enabled forceps.