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SOCiety NEWS

Women in Signal Processing
Committee Highlights

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tarting in 2017, the Women in Signal
Processing (WISP) Subcommittee
became a standing committee of the
Membership Board, rather than a subcommittee of the Member Services
Committee. This means that the WISP
chair now holds a seat on the Membership Board. Much has happened in
2017, and we look forward to an even
more productive 2018. Most notably,
we're building a directory of all women
in the signal processing fields, and we
need your help in populating it.
I would like to request all women
members reading this article submit their
information to the new WISP Directory:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/
1FAIpQLSdFi0tKzdfnNaE1HNKZTD6p5
HAnksqaWNpx_VBuF7E1Y1j22A/
viewform?c=0&w=1. The WISP Directory
aims to increase and promote visibility
and recognition of women in signal processing fields, positioning them for awards,
leadership roles, and more.
Powered by Google Forms, it allows
anyone to submit or access information
about women in the field. The purpose
of the directory is to collect information
about all women and their career stages,
IEEE membership status, and research
area and provides a link to their CVs.
The goal is to position and identify
more women for various awards and
Distinguished Lecturer nominations,
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nominations for leadership roles at
various levels [ranging from associate editor or technical committee (TC)
member to editor-in-chief or TC chair],
plenary and keynote speakers, and more.
The directory will be shared with various
TC chairs and other officers within the
IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS)
very soon. The same information should
also help recruiters and job-seekers alike.
The WISP Directory isn't only for SPS
members, however-all women in the
signal processing community are encouraged to add themselves to the list!
The WISP Committee has also been
working on creating an e-mail list of all
WISP, which will be used to directly
reach out to all women when calls for various nominations are open or if people
want to advertise open positions within
their university or company.
The WISP luncheons have continued, and at GlobalSIP 2017, we added a
new career development panel, "How to
Become an IEEE Fellow: Theory Versus Practice." The panel was carefully
selected to consist of current or former
members of SPS's Fellow Reference
Committee and one individual from the
IEEE-level Fellow Committee. The
panelists were Prof. Rabab Ward, Prof.
Min Wu, Prof. Thrasos Pappas, Prof.
Sergios Theodoridis, and Prof. Paulo
Diniz. A similar panel was repeated
on a larger scale at the International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
Signal Processing 2018 in Calgary,

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Canada on 15-18 April. Some takeaways from the GlobalSIP panel and
from other information shared by the
Chair of SPS's Fellow Reference Committee (Prof. Isabel Trancoso) include
the following:
■ Endorsements are important and
should be chosen carefully (endorsers' letters are read by the Society's
Fellow Reference Committee).
■ A clear Google Scholar profile should
be maintained.
■ Contributions and leadership within the IEEE and the Society are
very important and should be
clearly described in the nomination
document.
■ Highlight one or two key contributions (not all).
■ Books and/or monographs are very
valued.
■ There are four categories in which a
candidate can be nominated-the
industry leader category and educator
category should be used more often.
■ Even for academics, patents and contributions to industry are very valued.
We look forward to a productive
2018 together! For more information,
please check out the WISP webpage:
https://signalprocessingsociety.org/
get-involved/women-signal-processing.
Namrata Vaswani, Chair,
Women in Signal Processing
Committee

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