Professor Douglas N. RUTLEDGE is head of the Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique at AgroParisTech in Paris, France and Director of a combined Institut National de la Research Agronomique / AgroParisTech research unit on Analytical Engineering for Food Quality. He has been working for several years, on the development of chemometric tools (PoLiSh, PLS_Cluster, Outer Product Analysis, optimal model dimensionality based on Durbin-Watson criterion, Principal Components Transform…) for the analysis of instrumental data (Time Domain NMR, Infrared, Chromatography ..).