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FigurE 10. Behind-the-scenes teamwork photos of the SP Cup 2016 teams that received special recognitions and honorable mentions (from the top,
counter-clockwise) Team UpatrasECE, Greece; Team The Enforcers, Serbia; Team IIT Hyderabad, India; and Team UNStoppable, Serbia.

appreciation to Kenneth Lam, Stefano
Tubaro, and Houman Zarrinkoub, who
took part in the judging process, and the
contributions and assistance from
Gwenael Doërr and Chau-Wai Wong.
Min Wu and Adi Hajj-Ahmad thank the
U.S. National Science Foundation for the
research grants ECCS#1309623 and
CCF#1320803 that provided a foundation for developing the technical tasks in
this SP Cup.

Authors
Min Wu (minwu@umd.edu) is a professor and distinguished scholar-teacher
at the University of Maryland, College
Park. She is currently the editor-in-chief
of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Adi Hajj-Ahmad (adiha@umd.
edu) is a Ph.D. candidate at the
University of Maryland, College Park.
He received a paper award and two
invention awards for his research on
media forensics.
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Matthias Kirchner (kirchner@
binghamton.edu) is an assistant professor at Binghamton University, New
York. He is an elected member of the
IEEE Technical Committee on Information Forensics and Security.
Yanpin Ren (renyp@tsinghua.edu.cn)
is a senior engineer at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where she leads
the curriculum development in circuit
designs and embedded systems.
Changshui Zhang (zcs@tsinghua.
edu.cn) is a professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, with expertise
in machine learning. He is an editor of
IEEE SigPort and serves on the Student
Service Committee of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society.
Patrizio Campisi (patrizio.campisi@
uniroma3.it) is a professor at Roma Tre
University, Rome, Italy. He chairs the
Student Service Committee of the IEEE
Signal Processing Society and served as the
general chair of the 2015 IEEE Workshop
on Information Forensics and Security.
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