IEEE SPS 2009 Member-at-Large Election Results

Three new Members-at-Large will take their seats on the Signal Processing Society Board of Governors beginning 1 January 2010 and will serve until 31 December 2012. Seven candidates competed for the three Member-at-Large positions. The successful candidates represent a broad spectrum of the Signal Processing Society, and the Board of Governors will confirm the election results at the next meeting in November 2009. The successful candidates are:

Alex Acero Microsoft Corporation USA	Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola Arizona State University USA	Mats Viberg Chalmers University of Technology Sweden

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Completing their terms as Members-at-Large on 31 December 2009 are: Tsuhan Chen (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY); Thomas Kaiser (Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany); and Ananthram Swami (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphia, MD).

The Board of Governors (BoG) is the governing body that oversees the activities of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The SPS BoG has the responsibility of establishing and implementing policy, and receiving reports from its standing boards and committees. The SPS BoG is comprised of 17 SPS members: seven officers of the Society who are elected by the Board of Governors, nine Members-at-Large elected directly by the voting members of the Society, and the Executive Director of the Society serving as non-voting ex-officio.  Members-at-Large represent the member view point in the Board decision-making. They typically review, discuss, and act upon a wide range of items affecting the actions, activities, and health of the Society.  More information can be found at the IEEE Signal Processing Society website.