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IEEE SPS Meritorious Service Award. He
was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the
IEEE SPS (2004-2005). He received several best paper awards in IEEE journals
and conferences. He is a Fellow of the
IEEE, the Royal Statistical Society, and
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ali Tajer (tajer@ecse
.rpi.edu) received the
M.A. degree in statistics and Ph.D. degree
in electrical engineering from Columbia
University, New York, in 2007 and 2010,
respectively. He is currently an assistant
professor of electrical, computer, and
systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. His research
interests include mathematical statistics
and network information theory with
applications in wireless communications
and power grids. He serves as an editor
for IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Smart
Grid and as the guest editor-in-chief for
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (spe
cial issue on theory of complex systems

with applications to smart grid operations). He received the NSF CAREER
Award in 2016. He is a Senior Member
of the IEEE.
Maria Sabrina Greco
(m.greco@iet.unipi.it)
graduated with a
degree in electronic
engineering in 1993
and received the Ph.D.
degree in telecommunication engineering
in 1998, from the University of Pisa,
Italy, where she has been an associate
professor since December 2011. She is
an associate editor of IET Proceedings-
Sonar, Radar, and Navigation, editor-inchief of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic
Systems Magazine, member of the editorial board of the Springer Journal of
Advances in Signal Processing, and
senior editorial board member of IEEE
Journal on Selected Topics of Signal Processing. Her general interests are in the
areas of statistical signal processing, estimation, and detection theory. She coauthored many book chapters and more
than 170 journal and conference papers.
She is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Changshui Zhang
(zcs@tsinghua.edu
.cn) received the B.S.
degree in mathematics
from Peking University, Beijing, China, in
1986 and the Ph.D. degree from the
Department of Automation, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, in 1992, where he is
currently a professor. He has authored
more than 200 papers published in journals and conferences. His current
research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, image processing, pattern recognition, and evolutionary
computation. He is also an associate editor of Pattern Recognition.

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