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Dinesh Kumar is an Associate Professor of Biosignals at RMIT University and has extensive work in developing signal classification techniques for biosignals, audio and video data.He has developed bio-inspired artificial intelligence based systems that have been patented; (i) ‘audio identification’ (A2004901712), (ii) ‘video analysis tools’ (A2004901711), and (iii) ‘information in sound’ (USPO HH 2005). Dinesh ’s expertise is in identifying events from noisy signal recordings and in separating aretfacts from the targeted signals. He has published over 200 refereed papers, with 110 papers and seven patent applications in the last 5 years. Dinesh is an award winning research student supervisor, having been selected to be the Best Supervisor for 2005 and 2007. He has also been awarded Expert Professorial Scholarship by Federal government of Brazil with Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Grant towards providing his expertise for Biosignals (2008). His work in Biosignals has been recognised by European Union where he has been awarded the Erasmus Mundus Professorial Scholarship (2009).