Robert R Harrison, CEng received his B. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in sound and vibration engineering in 1979 and 1983, respectively from the University of Southampton, England. He is currently Professor of Computational Data Modelling in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, England. His main research interests are in the development and application of machine learning and data modelling solutions for problems of practical interest in fields ranging from clinical and bio-medicine, communications, and transport. He is author of more than 70 journal articles and 150 conference papers in these and other areas.