Signal Processing - July 2016 - 6

SOCiety NeWS

new Society officer Elected for 2017 and nominations
open for 2016 SPS awards

he Board of Governors (BoG) of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society
(SPS) elected one new officer who
will start his term on 1 January 2017:
Nikos Sidiropoulos (University of Minnesota) will serve as 2017-2019 SPS
vice president-Membership. He succeeds
Kostas Plataniotis (University of Toronto), who has held the post of vice president-Membership since January 2014.

Nikos Sidiropoulos:
New Society Officer
Nikos Sidiropoulos received the
diploma in electrical engineering
from the Aristotelian University
of Thessaloniki,
Greece, and the
M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering from the
University of Maryland-College Park, in
1988, 1990, and 1992, respectively. He
has served as assistant professor at the
University of Virginia (1997-1999); associate professor at the University of
Minnesota (2000-2002); professor at the
Technical University of Crete, Greece
(2002-2011); department chair (2005-
2007); and professor at the University of
Minnesota since 2011, where he holds
the ADC Chair in Digital Technology.
His research interests are in signal
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processing, wireless communications,
optimization, and tensor decomposition.
His current research focuses on signal
and tensor analytics for learning from big
data. He received the National Science
Foundation/CAREER Award in 1998
and the IEEE SPS Best Paper Award in
2001, 2007, and 2011. He was an IEEE
SPS Distinguished Lecturer (2008-
2009); chair, SPS Signal Processing for
Communications and Networking Technical Committee (2007-2008); and has
held several associate editor positions for
SPS journals. He received the 2010 IEEE
SPS Meritorious Service Award and the
2013 Distinguished ECE Alumni Award
from the University of Maryland. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE (2009) and of EURASIP (2014).

Nominations open
for 2016 SPS awards
The SPS Awards Board is now accepting nominations for all Society-level
awards, from paper awards to the major
Society awards. Nominations are due
by 1 September 2016 and should be
submitted to Theresa Argiropoulos
(t.argiropoulos@ieee.org), who will
collect the nominations on behalf of
Awards Board Chair José M.F. Moura.
Nominators should take into consideration the need for representation of
diversity in the nomination slate when
submitting their nominations. Full
details on the nomination process,
details on each award, as well as the
nomination and endorsement forms, are
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available on the Society's website:
http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/
awards-fellows/awardspage/.
■ Who can nominate: Nominations are
accepted from any Society individual member, Society committee, or
Society board. Nominations from
individual members can be supported by up to two endorsement letters
from two other individual members.
■ Which awards: Each year, the SPS
honors outstanding individuals who
have made significant contributions
related to signal processing through
the Society Award, the Industrial
Leader Award, the Industrial
Innovation Award, the Technical
Achievement Award, the Education
Award, and the Meritorious Service
Award. The Society also recognizes
outstanding publications in SPS journals and magazines through the Best
Paper Award, Overview Paper Award,
Sustained Impact Paper Award, IEEE
Signal Processing Letters Best Paper
Award, IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine Best Column Award, IEEE
Signal Processing Magazine Best
Paper Award, and the Young Author
Best Paper Award.
Nominations for the Best Paper
Award and Young Author Best Paper
Award should refer to the papers published in the following Society journals:
■ IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in
Signal Processing (JSTSP)
■ IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech,
and Language Processing (T-ASLP)

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