Division Director Moura inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering

We work in things that get buried in technology," says Professor José Moura about the signal processing industry. "Signal processing is like Intel Inside®," he says. "In most technologies, you find algorithms that people like me design but people don't realize are there. The brains of what makes most technology work is signal processing."

The former President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society was recently selected into the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors in the engineering field.

Moura is an electrical and computer engineering professor, and the director of the Information and Communications Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and acting Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors, and as the IEEE Division IX Director and Delegate.

Moura discussed his roles at IEEE, the responsibility of those in the profession to contribute their time and talent to encouraging others, and how he helped build the first dual-degree program on two continents through Carnegie Melon with the Technical Activities Spotlight. Read the entire article here.