b'18 Member News November 2021Achieve great thingsAchieving great things with Dr EjayId say my route to becominga Chartered Engineer was more through an academic pathway, Nsugbe PhD CEng CMath CPhys CSciwhich is unconventional. The majority of my experience MIPEM SMIEEE FIMA FRSA emanates from an academic setting, albeit engineering based, but in an academic/Member News caught up with IET volunteer, STEM Ambassador and recently namedscholarly setting. So, it was AI Professional of the Year and Young Medical Physicist of the Year, Dr Ejay Nsugbe,a case of using appropriate to talk about his wins, his journey to Professional Registration and news of hiswriting skills to showcase latest AI project. how my academic experience met the relevant criteria within the Professional Registration framework.I feel being namedThe application process AI Professional of thewas a lengthy one, as can Year by the Computingbe expected, but I was Magazine and Youngguided alongside an IET Professional Registration Medical Physicist ofAdviser who provided me the Year by AXREM, allwith feedback through the while being a Controlapplication process.Engineer by background,And to those thinking truly show my valueabout starting their as a multidisciplinaryProfessional Registration researcher andapplication?engineer, says Ejay.Familiarise yourself with the Which is what I haveUKSPEC requirements early a keen interest in, asenough and ensure to tailor a means of impactfulContinuing with hisFrom industry toyour work responsibilities success, Ejays mostacademia, Ejay took thewhere possible across the problem solving, similarrecent piece of ongoingunconventional pathwayvarious competencies, to the way my idolsresearch is based aroundto achieving Professionalwhichever category youre and predecessors suchthe forecasting of pretermRegistration.applying for, to ensure that you are well rounded and ready to as Norbert Wiener anddeliveries in pregnantgo when it comes to applying.James Clerk Maxwellpatients using AI. I started my career in industry before doing a Doctorate did many years ago. The work is part of anand have since fluctuatedMore than just a memberinternational and multidisciplinarybetween industry andBeing an IET member has research work where we applyacademia since, he says. Atcertainly given me a springboard the principles of Cyberneticsmy first year at university,throughout my career via the and AI in pregnancy medicinethe late Dr Lionel Ripley gavevolunteer opportunities that Ive towards an active prediction of aa talk about professionalbeen part of, he says. Likewise, potential preterm pregnancy, inpractice in engineering andin return Ive been part of events order for proactive treatment tothe importance of beingwhich has helped promote the be administered to the pregnantprofessionally registered. SinceIET and what it offers, so theres patient where necessary, therebythen, it became a goal which Icertainly been benefits for us all.enhancing care strategies, was fixated towards achieving.he says. Weve churned outa number of publications onIf youre a member and would like to share yourthe topic and the researchstory in a future issue of Member News, please email: finely encompasses technicalmembernews@theiet.orgareas such as Cybernetics, Signal Processing, AI and Obstetrics to name a few.'