The Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) elected two new officers who will start their terms on 1 January 2016: Ali H. Sayed (University of California) will serve as 2016-2017 SPS President-Elect. He succeeds Rabab K. Ward (University of British Columbia) who has held the post of President-Elect and will become President in 2016.   Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) will serve as 2016-2018 SPS Vice President-Technical Directions. He succeeds Charles A. Bouman (Purdue University), who has held the post of Vice President-Technical Directions since January 2013.