Bastiaan joined Victoria in 2010. He is also a Researcher (part-time) at Google (since 2010). He was simultaneously a Professor at Delft University of Technology (2011-2021). Until 2014 he was a Professor at KTH - the Royal Institute of Technology - in Stockholm, where he was Head of the Sound and Image Processing Laboratory. He was a founder of Global IP Solutions, a company that provided the original enabling audio technology to Skype and later developed audio and video processing technologies for communication over the Internet for companies such as IBM, Cisco, and Google. The company was acquired by Google in 2010. Before moving to Sweden, Bastiaan worked in the Research Division of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, mostly in the area of speech processing. The main speech coding algorithm currently used in all mobile telephones world-wide (EVS) is based on a principle he developed there. Bastiaan holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, a Ph.D. in Soil Science from the University of California (UCR), an MS in Physics (UCR) and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 1999, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand since 2021, and a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand since 2024.