New Society Officer Elected and Editors-in-Chief Named for 2019

The Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society elected one new Officer who will start her term on 1 January 2019:
 

Tulay Adali will serve as 2019-2021 Vice President-Technical Directions.  She is a Fellow of the IEEE and is with the University of Maryland Baltimore County.  She succeeds Walter Kellermann who has held this position since January 2016.

The following volunteers have been named Editors-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Society publications.  The term for these Editors-in-Chief will run from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2021.
 

Lina Karam has been named Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.  She is a Fellow of the IEEE and is with Arizona State University.  She is succeeding Shrikanth (Shri) S. Narayanan, University of Southern California, who has held the post as Editor-in-Chief since 2016.

Antonio Ortega has been named Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is with the University of Southern California.  He is succeeding Petar Djuric, State University of NY, who has held the post as Editor-in-Chief since 2015.

Dilek Hakkani-Tur has been named Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.  She is a Fellow of the IEEE and is with the Amazon Alexa AI team.  She is succeeding Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, who has held the post as Editor-in-Chief since 2015.