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Processing. He is a faculty member in
the Center for Signal and Information
Processing. He served as area editor
of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
(2007-2009), technical program (TP) cochair for IEEE GlobalSIP 2014, special
sessions chair for the IEEE International
Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
in 2006, tutorial chair for ICIP 2009 and
ICIP 2016, and TP chair for ICIP 2020.
He is a member of the IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop and the IEEE
International Workshop on Multimedia
Signal Processing Technical Committees
(2015-2020). He was awarded the Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award
in 2008 and the Steven A. Denning Faculty Award for Global Engagement in
2017. He was the organizer and host of
the first IEEE Signal Processing Society
Video and Image Processing Cup competition in 2017. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

from the editor

Madagascar, an open-source software
package for geophysical data analysis.
Renato Lopes (rlopes@
decom.fee.unicamp.br)
received his B.S. and
M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the
University of Campinas
(UNICAMP), Brazil, in 1995 and 1997,
respectively. He received an M.Sc. degree
in mathematics and a Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering from the
Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001
and 2003, respectively. He is an associate
professor at the School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at UNICAMP.
His main research interest is in digital
signal processing, especially its application to communication systems and to
seismic data analysis.

Reference
[1] IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol. 29, no. 4,
sP
July 2012.

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Internships also facilitate the transfer of
information between academia and industry through the students. Internships,
of course, are great for companies. In
this example, as my interest and appreciation in the work grew, I devoted a lot
of resources to work in millimeter-wave
communication, including looking for
funding from a number of companies.
This led to a substantial amount of
return in terms of research dollars spent,
versus salary paid during the internship.
Third, practical ideas lead to more
research opportunities. Doing research

Sergey Fomel (sergey
.fomel@beg.utexas
.edu) received his
diploma in geophysics
from Novosibirsk University, Russia, in 1990
and his Ph.D. degree in geophysics from
Stanford University, California, in 2001.
He previously worked at the Institute of
Geophysics in Russia, Schlumberger
Geco-Prakla in Gatwick, United Kingdom,
and the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, California. He is a professor
at the Jackson School of Geosciences,
the University of Texas at Austin, with a
joint appointment between the Bureau of
Economic Geology and the Department
of Geological Sciences. He has received
numerous professional awards, including
the J. Clarence Karcher Award from the
Society of Exploration Geophysicists in
2001 and the Conrad Schlumberger
Award from the European Association of
Geoscientists and Engineers in 2011. He
devotes part of his time to developing

on practical problems attracts the attention of others in industry. As a result, it
leads to more discussions about practical challenges, which, in turn, provides more problems to solve. This
creates even more opportunities for
research funding and makes the students even more marketable. In essence,
solving practical and relevant problems
makes our research more attractive to
industry, leading to further industry
involvement.
I am fully supportive of industry involvement in SPM. I hope authors will

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continue to make their content available to
a wide audience. I would like to encourage
our industry colleagues to get involved
with special issue proposals, articles for
special issues, and feature articles. The
signal processing community is actively
listening or, in this case, reading.

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