Simon Braun is Professor at the Israel Institute of Technology, and has been active in the area of signal processing for four decades. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal “ Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing” (Elsevier), the “ Encyclopedia of Vibrations (Academic Press) and author of “Mechanical Signature Analysis” (Academic Press). He has authored more than 60 papers in peer - reviewed journals and presented his work at conferences. He has conducted worldwide workshops (Europe, US, Australia, China), attended by Academics and Engineers and during sabbaticals, applied his expertise to industrial problems at GE and Ford Motor Co.