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from the editor
Robert W. Heath, Jr. | Editor-in-Chief | rheath@utexas.edu

Introducing the New Editorial Team
of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

t long last, I would like to welcome
the new editorial team of IEEE Sig-
nal Processing Magazine (SPM)
for my term. You may not know that the
terms for the area editors are normally
aligned with the term of the editor-in-chief
(EIC). As a result, the new EIC has the
daunting task of completely replacing the
leadership team! I searched the world for
the best talent. Now that the approvals are
done, I am happy to introduce
SPM's new area editors for 2018-2020.

Area editors
Feature articles
The new area editor
for feature articles is
Prof. Matthew McKay,
from the Hong Kong
University of Science
and Technology, Hong
Matthew McKay
Kong SAR of China.
Prof. McKay has a diverse research
background including signal processing
for communications, random matrix theory, and, most recently, high-dimensional
inference problems related to computational immunology/virology in collaboration
with medical professionals. The area editor
for feature articles assigns feature article
proposals to the editorial board for review
and feedback. He also assigns full-length
articles to editorial board members who
handle the review process.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2018.2809223
Date of publication: 26 April 2018

Special issues
Prof. Namrata Vaswani,
from Iowa State University, has been selected as the new area editor
for special issues. Prof.
Vaswani is an expert
Namrata Vaswani in statistical machine
learning, computer vision, and data science in general. She also brings important connections as chair of the Women
in Signal Processing Committee and as
a member of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society (SPS) Data Science Initiative.
The area editor for special issues shepherds special issue proposals through the
editorial board's review and feedback
process. She also spends time coming
up with about topics for new clusters and
special issues and encouraging organizers to submit manuscripts on those topics.

Columns and forum
Prof. Roberto Togneri,
from The University of
Western Australia, is the
new area editor for columns and forum. Prof.
To g n e r i has broad
Roberto Togneri
experience in several
areas including speech, machine learning, and biometrics. He was an associate
editor of SPM's "Lecture Notes" column
for four years. In SPM, columns include
articles that address topics of general
interest including news, applications,
education, advice, and perspectives. A
forum is a venue for discussion among
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several experts, often with competing
points of view. Different from other editing positions, the area editor and associate editors in the columns and forum
work more closely with the authors on
the text and layout of each article.

e-Newsletter
The area editor for In-
side Signal Processing
e-Newsletter is Ervin
Sejdic, from the University of Pittsburgh.
Prof. Sejdic has exErvin Sejdic
perience in biosignal
processing, biometrics, rehabilitation engineering, and advanced information systems in medicine. Prof. Sejdic started in
this role in mid-2017. The area editor for
the e-Newsletter coordinates all newsletter
content including Society and technical
committee news, confirmation information, research activities, local Chapter
information, and information about programs related to signal processing.

Social media and outreach
Tiago Henrique Falk,
from Institut National
de la Recherche Scientifique, Montréal, Canada, joins us as the new
area editor for social
Tiago Henrique Falk media and outreach.
Prof. Falk works in the area of speech
and brain-computer interfaces and also
has a background in speech and language processing as well as multimedia

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