Dr Nazrul Effendy has recently joined the Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems Research Group as a visiting scholar to work with Professor Yong Yan for a period of one month. Dr Effendy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. He is funded by the Erasmus Mundus Lotus programme which supports staff and student mobility between the University of Kent and overseas institutions.