August 30th Deadline Approaching: Election of Members-at-Large and Directors-at-Large of SPS Board of Governors

Mos Kaveh
SPS Past President and Chair, Nominations and Appointments Committee

Your vote is important! The election of Members-at-Large (term 1 January 2014 through 31 December 2016) and the Directors-at-Large for Regions 7 & 9 and Region 10 (term 1 January 2014 through 31 December 2015) 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 at https://eballot4.votenet.com/IEEE for up to THREE Member-at-Large candidates and ONE Regional Director-at-Large for your corresponding region: Regions 7 & 9 (Canada & Latin America) and Region 10 (Asia and Pacific Rim). Ballots must be received at IEEE no later than 30 August 2013 in order to be counted. Members must meet the eligibility requirements at the time the ballot data is generated in order to be eligible to vote. In order to be eligible to vote in this year's SP Society election, you had to have been an active SP Society Member or Affiliate (excluding Student) prior to 1 June 2013. This is the date when the list of eligible Society voting members was compiled.

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

Geert Leus	Zhi-Quan Tom Luo	Helen Meng	Shrikanth Narayanan
Fernando Pereira	Hideaki Sakai	Gaurav Sharma	Min Wu

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

REGIONS 7 & 9:

1. Sridhar (Sri) Krishnan
2. Douglas O'Shaughnessy

Sridhar Krishnan

Douglas O'Shaughnessy

REGION 10:

1. Hong-Yuan Mark Liao
2. Wonyong Sung

Hong-Yuan Mark Liao

Wonyong Sung

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. The seven officers are: the President, the President-Elect, the Vice President-Membership, the Vice President-Conferences, the Vice President-Finance, the Vice President-Publications and the Vice President-Technical Directions. The Executive Director of the Society shall serve ex-officio, without vote.

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 voting members of the Society’s Membership Board.

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