I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Prof. Ser Wee, for his professional guidance, advice, encouragement, and continued support for the entirely of my doctoral program. This thesis would not have been possible without his commitment to supervising my doctoral program.I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Temasek Laboratories @ NTU (TL@NTU) for the sponsorship awarded to me. I am very grateful to TL@NTU for supporting my participation in overseas international conferences. I would like to thank the sensor array team at TL@NTU which includes Dr. SEE Chong Meng, Dr. RAZUL Sirajudeen Gulam and Dr. LEI Lei for their guidance, patience and support of my doctoral program. I would like to thank Ms. Catherine TENG Siew Jiuan who helped me with administrative matters, allowing me to better focus on my doctoral program. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my parents for their unconditional love to me. I would like to thank my wonderful wife for her physical and emotional support throughout my doctoral program journey. It has been especially difficult with taking care of my two beautiful sons.Finally, I thank GOD for every blessing and strength he has given me.
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