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TWI Expert Presented with ‘Best Paper' Award

Thu, 29 May, 2025

TWI Team Manager, Darren Williams was in attendance at the 2025 I2MTC Awards Luncheon to receive the ‘IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Andy Chi Best Paper Award 2024.’

The awards ceremony took place during the I2MTC Conference (19-22 May, 2025) at the St. Carlowitz Congress Centre in Chemnitz, Germany.

The research paper, ‘A New Multisensor Partial Domain Adaptation Method for Machinery Fault Diagnosis Under Different Working Conditions,’ was co-written by experts drawn from different universities and overseen by Darren.

Figure 1. TWI’s Darren Williams and Roberto Ferrero (University of Liverpool) receive the award
Figure 1. TWI’s Darren Williams and Roberto Ferrero (University of Liverpool) receive the award

The award, which is named for former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), Andrew (Andy) R Chi is presented annually in recognition of the best paper published in the publication. It is given for the best paper published in the previous year, with the first award being given in 1984 for a paper written in 1983.

Figure 2. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Andy Chi Best Paper Award 2024
Figure 2. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Andy Chi Best Paper Award 2024

Congratulations to Darren and his co-authors, Jun Zhu, Yuanfan Wang, Min Xia, and Clarence W. de Silva on the award for best paper, which was originally published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 72.

We would like to thank IEEE for the recognition in conferring this award, which shows the technical excellence, knowledge and expertise available to our Members.

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