IEEE Signal Processing Magazine - January 2018 - 7

SOCIETY NEWS

SPS Announces 2018 Class of DLs and
Creates New Distinguished Industry Speaker Program

he IEEE Signal Processing Society
(SPS) has announced the 2018 Class
of Distinguished Lecturers (DLs) for
the term of 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019. In addition, a special Signal
Processing Data Science DL has also
been named to explicitly address the
areas of signal processing and data science for the same term. The IEEE SPS
DL Program provides a means for Chapters to have access to well-known educators and authors in the fields of signal
processing to lecture at Chapter meetings.
While many IEEE Societies have similar
programs, the SPS provides a substantial
amount of financial support for the Chapters to take advantage of this service.
For 2018, the Society approved the
creation of the new Distinguished Industry Speaker (DIS) Program. The program
provides means for Chapters to have
access to individuals who are recognized
experts with a background in industrial
applications in the signal processing area
and are well versed in the ongoing issues/
activities in industry to lecture at Chapter
meetings. DISs will supplement the regular DL Program and will closely mirror it.
The main difference and goal of the DIS
Program is to educate and interact with
Society members about topics that are of
primary importance to industry and the
signal processing community at large.
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Date of publication: 9 January 2018

The speakers will focus their presentations on industrial applications of interest
to practicing engineers, stressing practical issues and/or activities in industry.
The DISs will be available to all SPS
Chapters as are DLs.
Five colleagues were honored with the
appointment of DL: Rick Blum (Lehigh
University), Kevin Bowyer (University of
Notre Dame), Geert Leus (Delft University
of Technology), Marco Lops (University
of Cassino and Southern Lazio), and
Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma (The Chinese University of Hong Kong). The Signal Processing
Data Science DL position has been awarded to Patrick Wolfe (Purdue University).
For the new DIS Program, the following individuals were honored as the first
DISs: Alfonso Farina (Leonardo Company), Ton Kalker (Xperi Corporation),
Thomas Marzetta (Nokia Bell Labs), Tao
Mei (Microsoft Research Asia), and
Michael Picheny (IBM).
Chapters interested in arranging lectures by a DL, Signal Processing Data
Science DL, or DIS can visit the following websites:
■ DL Program: http://signalprocessing
society.org/professional-development/
distinguished-lecturer-program
■ DIS Program: http://signalprocess
ingsociety.org/professional-develop
ment/distinguished-industry-speakerprogram.
Lecturers can also be arranged by sending an e-mail to sp.info@ieee.org.
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE

January 2018

2018 class of DLs
Rick S. Blum
Rick S. Blum received
his B.S. degree in
electrical engineering
from The Pennsylvania State University in
1984 and his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 and 1991,
respectively.
Dr. Blum was a member of technical
staff at General Electric Aerospace in
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (1984-1991),
and he graduated from GE's Advanced
Course in Engineering. Since 1991, he
has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he is currently a professor
and holds the Robert W. Wieseman
Endowed Research Professorship in
Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Blum was on the editorial board
of Journal of Advances in Information
Fusion of the International Society of
Information Fusion. He was an associate editor, for IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing (2000-2002) and
IEEE Communications Letters. He has
edited special issues of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing and IEEE Journal on Selected
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