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Signal Processing Technical Committee
(2009-2015) and associate editor for
Journal of Communications and Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and IEEE Signal Processing
Letters. He is serving his second term as
an associate editor, IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing (2015-present). In
2015, he was corecipient of the 2014
Best Paper Award from Journal of Communication and Networks. During 2018-
2020, he will be serving as a DL for the
IEEE SPS.
Dr. Lops's research interests are in
the field of detection and estimation,
with emphasis on radar signal processing and signal processing for communications. His lecture topics include
track-before-detect for early detection
and track initiation; tradeoffs in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO)
radar; coexistence between radar and
communication systems; and wireless
communications in a dynamic scenario:
a random-set-theoretic approach.

Wing-Kin Ma
Wing-Kin Ma re ceived his B.Eng. degree in electrical and
electronic engineering
from the University of
Portsmouth, United
Kingdom, in 1995,
and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees, both
in electronic engineering, from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK),
in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He is
currently an associate professor with
the Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK. From 2005 to 2007,
he was also an assistant professor with
the Institute of Communications Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Prior to becoming a
faculty member, he held various research positions with McMaster University, Canada; CUHK; and the
University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Ma is an IEEE Fellow. He is currently senior area editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing; associate
editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing (2008-2011); associate editor and guest editor of several journals,
which include IEEE Signal Processing

Letters (2012), IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, and
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He
was a tutorial speaker in at the European Signal Processing Conference
(2011) and International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (2014). He is a member of the
Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (2012-
p r e s ent) and Signal Processing for
Communications and Networking Technical Committee (2015-present). Dr.
Ma received the Research Excellence
Award of CUHK (2013-2014), the
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best
Paper Award (2015), and the IEEE
Signal Processing Letters Best Paper
Award (2016).
Dr. Ma's research interests are in signal processing, optimization, and communications, with recent activities
focused on MIMO transceiver designs
and interference management and structured matrix factorization with application to blind signal separation and
hyperspectral remote sensing. His lecture
topics include semidefinite relaxation:
from classical concepts to recent advances,
hyperspectral unmixing in remote sensing: learn the wisdom there and go
beyond (machine learning included),
and MIMO transceiver designs and
optimization: beyond beamforming and
perfect channel information.

DIS Program
Alfonso Farina
Alfonso Farina received his doctor
degree in electronic
engineering from the
University of Rome,
Italy, in 1973. In 1974,
he joined Selenia,
then Selex ES, where he became the director of the Analysis of Integrated Systems Unit and subsequently director of
Engineering of the Large Business Systems Division. In 2012, he was the senior vice-president (VP) and chief
technology officer (CTO) of the company, reporting directly to the president.
From 2013 to 2014, he was the senior
advisor to the CTO, retiring in October
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2014. From 1979 to 1985, he was also
a professor of radar techniques at the
University of Naples, Italy. Currently,
Dr. Farina is a visiting professor at
University College London Department of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering. He is the Center for TeleInFrastructures Industry Advisory Chair
and a DL of the IEEE Aerospace and
Electronic Systems Society. He is a consultant to Leonardo S.p.A. "Land & Naval Defence Electronics Division,"
Rome, Italy (https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Leonardo_S.p.A).
Dr. Farina is a Life Fellow of the
IEEE and fellow of the Institution of
Engineering and Technology (IET), the
Royal Academy of Engineering, and the
European Association for Signal Processing. He has authored more than 600
peer-reviewed technical papers and
books and monographs (published
worldwide). He collaborates with several professional journals and conferences
(mainly on radar and data fusion) as
an associate editor, reviewer, organizer
of special issues, session chair, and
plenary speaker. He has been a senior
editorial board member of IEEE Signal
Processing Magazine since 2017. Dr.
Farina was general chair, IEEE RadarCon (2008), and executive conference
chair, International Conference on
Fusion (2006).
He received the following awards:
leader of the team that won first prize of
the first edition of the Finmeccanica
Award for Innovation Technology
(2004); International Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering, United
Kingdom (2005); IEEE Honor Ceremony, Montréal, Canada; IEEE Dennis J.
Picard Gold Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications "for continuous,
innovative, theoretical, and practical
contributions to radar systems and adaptive signal processing techniques"
(2010); Oscar Masi Award for the
AULOS "green" radar by the Italian
Industrial Research Association (2012);
IET Achievement Medal "for outstanding contributions to radar system design,
signal data and image processing, and
data fusion" (2014). The main best paper
awards received were the M. Barry Carlton Award, IEEE Transactions on
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