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new Society officers Elected for 2018

he Board of Governors (BoG) of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society
(SPS) elected three new officers who
will start their terms on 1 January 2018:
Ahmed H. Tewfik (University of Texas at
Austin) will serve as 2018-2019 SPS
president-elect. He succeeds Ali H. Sayed
who has held the post of president-elect
and will become SPS president in 2018.
Fernando Pereira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) will serve as 2018-
2020 SPS vice president, conferences. He
succeeds Carlo Regazzoni, who has held
this position since January 2015. Sergios
Theodoridis (University of Athens, Greece)
will serve as 2018-2020 SPS vice president, Publications. He succeeds Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas who has held this
position since January 2015.

Meet the Newly Elected
Society Officers
2018-2019 SPS President-Elect
Ahmed H. Tewfik
Ahmed H. Tewfik
received his B.Sc.
degree from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1982
and his M.Sc., E.E.,
and Sc.D. degrees
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in
1984, 1985, and 1987, respectively. He is
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the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in
Engineering and the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at
Austin. As chair, he is credited with substantially increasing the funding of the
department; establishing public-private
partnerships; and increasing the hands-on,
industry, and entrepreneurial experiences
of its students. He was the E.F. Johnson
Professor of Electronic Communications
with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota
until September 2010.
Dr. Tewfik worked at Alphatech,
Inc. and served as a consultant to several companies, including MTS Systems, Inc., Eden Prairie, Minnesota;
Emerson-Rosemount, Inc., Eden Prairie, Minnesota; CyberNova, Milipitas,
California; Macrovision, Santa Clara,
California; Visionaire Technology, Fremont, California; Ipsos, New York;
InterDigital Communications, King of
Prussia, Pennsylvania; Keyeye Communications, Sacramento, California;
Transoma Medical, Arden Hills, Minnesota; and St. Jude Medical, Minnetonka, Minnesota. From August
1997 to August 2001, he was the president and chief executive officer of Cognicity, Inc., an entertainment marketing
software tools publisher that he
cofounded, while on partial leave of
absence from the University of Minnesota. His current research interests are
in technology for human cognitive augmentation and decision making, brain
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computing interfaces, bioelectronics,
and mobility.
Dr. Tewfik is an IEEE Fellow. His professional activities include founding
cochair, 2013 IEEE GlobalSIP Conference; SPS vice president, technical directions (2010-2012); general chair, 2009
IEEE Genomic Signal Processing and
Statistics Conference; member-at-large,
SPS BoG (2006-2008); president, SPS/
IEEE Communications Society Minnesota Chapter (2003-2005); SPS Distinguished Lecturer (1998-1999); first
editor-in-chief, IEEE Signal Processing
Letters (1993-1999); associate editor,
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
(TSP); and guest editor of three special
issues of TSP on wavelets and their applications and watermarking, special issue
of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia on
multimedia databases, and special issue
of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing on bioinformatics. He was
awarded the IEEE Third Millennium
Medal (2000), the E.F. Johnson Professorship of Electronic Communications at
the University of Minnesota (1993), the
Taylor Faculty Development Award from
the Taylor Foundation (1992), and a
National Science Foundation Research
Initiation Award (1990). He has given
several plenary and keynote lectures as
well as taught tutorials on bioinformatics,
ultrawideband communications, watermarking, and wavelets at major IEEE
conferences. He has also volunteered in
technical and STEM activities at the
IEEE Central Texas Society Chapter.

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