The IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC) Nomination & Election Sub-Committee collected this year 18 candidatures from high caliber researchers and scientists, who were running for membership to the IFS-TC. After a vote amongst the current TC members, the following 9 individuals have been elected:

• Patrizio Campisi, Universita degli Studi Roma TRE, Italy,
• Teddy Furon, INRIA Rennes, France,
• Alex Kot, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
• Alessandro Piva, University of Florence, Italy,
• Shantanu Rane, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA,
• Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA,
• Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy, University of Geneva, Switzerland,
• Jia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University, Republic of China,
• Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri, USA.

At the same time, the IFS-TC members also voted to elect their Vice Chair. I am glad to announce that Prof. Min Wu from University of Maryland, USA has been uninanimously elected. Congratulations to everybody. IFS-TC Nomination & Election Sub-Committee C.-C. Jay Kuo (Chair) Jana Dittmann H.-Y. Mark Liao Rich Lippmann