The Executive Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) appointed two new Chairs who will start their terms on 1 January 2017: H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University) will serve as 2017-2019 SPS Awards Board Chair. He succeeds Jose' M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University) who has held the post 2014.       Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico) will serve as 2017-2019 SPS Fellow Reference Committee Chair. She succeeds Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology), who has held the post since 2014.