SOCiety NeWS Election of Regional Directors-at-Large and Members-at-Large Y our vote is important! The election is now open for regional directorsat-large for Regions 1-6 and Region 8 (the term is 1 January 2017 through 31 December 2018) and membersat-large (term 1 January 2017 through 31 December 2019) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Board of Governors (BoG). Ballots, which have been mailed to SPS members, include a diverse slate of candidates for both elections, which were vetted by the SPS Nominations and Appointments Committee, as well as a space for write-in candidates. This year's election offers SPS members the opportunity to cast their votes via the web at https://eballot4. votenet.com/IEEE for up to one regional director-at-large for your corresponding Region: Regions 1-6 (United States) and Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) and three member-at-large candidates. Ballots must be received Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2016.2585718 Date of publication: 2 September 2016 the candidates for member-at-large Abeer A.H. Alwan Homer H. Chen Shoji Makino Marc Moonen Antonio Ortega Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu Gaurav Sharma A. Lee Swindlehurst Zhi (Gerry) Tian the candidates for regional director-at-large Regions 1-6 Radhakrishna (Radha) Giduthuri 6 Zhengdao Wang Region 8 John McAllister Sven Loncaric IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | September 2016 | Ana Isabel Pérez-Neirahttps://eballot4 http://www.votenet.com/IEEE