He has secured more than 30 research projects from industry and government to the value of more than £12M. He was the Director of one of the two Dstl/EPSRC University Defence Research Collaboration consortia, LSSCN, which ran between 2013 and 2018, and was led from Newcastle University. He has co-authored two research monographs with Wiley, one in non linear adaptive signal processing and a second in EEG signal processing, the second edition of which will appear in 2021 entitled EEG signal processing and machine learning, and has published more than 600 other scientific works, including more than 200 journal papers, and has steered approaching 100 researchers to PhD graduation.

Current major research interests: advanced signal processing for wireless communication systems and multimodal technologies (audio-visual) to support human interaction; together with signal processing for assisted living and signal processing for defence and navigation.