September 1st Deadline Approaching: Cast Your Vote for Members-at-Large and Directors-at-Large of SPS Board of Governors

Jose M. F. Moura
SPS Past President and Chair, Nominations and Appointments Committee

Your vote is important! The election of Members-at-Large (term 1 January 2011 through 31 December 2013) and the new Directors-at-Large (term 1 January 2011 through 31 December 2012) of the IEEE SPS Board of Governors is now open. Ballots have been mailed to SPS members. The ballot includes a diverse slate of candidates for both elections, which were vetted by the SPS Nominations and Appointments Committee, as well as a space for write-in candidates. This year's election offers SPS members the opportunity to cast their votes via the web for up to THREE Member-at-Large candidates and ONE Regional Director-at-Large for your corresponding region: Regions 1-6 (US), Regions 7 and 9 (Canada and Latin America), Region 8 (Europe/Middle East/Africa) and Region 10 (Asia/Pacific Rim). Ballots must be received at IEEE no later than 1 September 2010 in order to be counted.

The Board of Governors 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 Board of Governors is comprised of the following 21 Society members: seven officers of the Society who are elected by the Board of Governors, nine Members-at-Large elected by the voting members of the Society, and four Regional Directors-at-Large elected locally by Society voting members of the corresponding region.

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.

Regional Directors-at-Large are IEEE Signal Processing Society members who are elected locally by Society voting members of the corresponding region via the annual election, to serve on the Society’s Board of Governors as non-voting members and on the Society’s Membership Board as voting members.

The candidates for Member-at-Large are (alphabetic order):

P. Djuric	Y. Gao	W. Karl	Krishnamurthy	L. Lee
S. Makino	A. Nehorai	W. Siu	S. Theodoridis	A. Zoubir

The candidates for Regional Director-at-Large are (alphabetic order):

REGIONS 1-6:

1. Tukunbo Ogunfunmi
2. Roberto Pieraccini
3. Yun Qing Shi

T. Ogunfunmi

R. Pieraccini

Y. Shi

REGIONS 7 & 9:

1. Sridhar Krishnan

2. Roxana Saint-Nom

S. Krishnan

R. Saint-Nom

REGION 8:
1. M. Adnan Al-Alaoui

2. Carlo Regazzoni
3. Saeid Sanei

REGION 8:
1. M. Adnan Al-Alaoui
2. Carlo Regazzoni
3. Saeid Sanei

A. Al-Alaoui

C. Regazzoni

S. Sanei

REGION 10:
1. Hanseok Ko
2. Alex Kot
3. Ta-Sung Lee

H. Ko

A. Kot

T. Sung Lee

More information of the Signal Processing Society can be found at this link.