Prof. Andrew Ball is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise and Professor of Diagnostic Engineering at the University of Huddersfield. He graduated from the University of Leeds in 1987, where he attained a first class honours in Mechanical Engineering. Later, he received a Ph.D. degree in Machinery Condition Monitoring from the University of Manchester. Andrew’s personal research expertise is in the detection and diagnosis of faults in mechanical, electrical and electro-hydraulic machines, in data analysis and signal processing, and in measurement systems and sensor development. He is the author of over 400 technical and professional publications, and has spent a large amount of time lecturing and providing consultation to industry in all parts of the world. His main research interests include machinery condition monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis; signal processing, feature extraction and pattern recognition; vibro-acoustic and vibro-impact analysis; model-based and predictive methods; sensor