Election Regional Directors-at-Large and Members-at-Large

Ahmed Tewfik
SPS Past President and Chair, 2022-2023 Nominations and Appointments Committee

It is my pleasure to announce that the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) annual election will commence on 15 August, and your vote is more important than ever! This year, all eligible SPS Members will vote for the Regional Directors-at-Large for Regions 1-6 and 8 (term 1 January 2023 through 31 December 2024), and Members-at-Large (term 1 January 2023 through 31 December 2025) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (BoG).

Ballots will be mailed to SPS members. The ballot includes a diverse slate of candidates for all 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://eballot.app/ieee for up to one Regional Director-at-Large for your corresponding Region: Regions 1-6 (USA) and Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and three Member-at-Large candidates. Ballots must be received at the IEEE no later than 3 October 2022 to be counted. Members must meet the eligibility requirements at the time the ballot data is generated to be eligible to vote. To be eligible to vote in this year’s Society election, you had to have been an active SPS Member, Affiliate, or Graduate Student Member as of 30 June 2022. This is the date when the list of eligible Society voting members was compiled.

The 2022 candidates for Regional Director-at-Large (presented in alphabetical order) appear below. Candidate biographies will be included in the ballot.

Regions 1-6:

Petros Boufounos

Yang Lei

Hamid Palangi

Region 8:

Moncef Gabbouj

Constantinos B. Papadias

The 2022 candidates for Member-at-Large (presented in alphabetical order) appear below. Candidate biographies will be included in the ballot.

Mónica Bugallo

Yonina C. Eldar

Woon-Seng Gan

Gaurav Sharma

Akihiko (Ken) Sugiyama

Ali Tajer

Xiao-Ping (Steven) Zhang

The BoG is the governing body that oversees the activities of the SPS. The SPS BoG has the responsibility of establishing and implementing policy and receiving reports from its standing boards and committees and comprises 23 Society members: the President and President-Elect who are elected by the voting members of the Society, five Vice President officers of the Society who are elected by the BoG, nine Members-at-Large elected by the voting members of the Society, four Regional Directors-at-Large elected locally by Society voting members of the corresponding region, as well as the Awards Board Chair and Young Professionals Committee Chair. The seven officers are the President, President-Elect, the Vice President-Conferences, Vice President-Education, Vice President-Membership, Vice President-Publications, and Vice President-Technical Directions. The Executive Director of the Society shall serve ex-officio, without vote.

Regional Directors-at-Large are SPS members who are elected locally by Society voting members of the corresponding Region via the annual election to serve on the Society’s BoG as nonvoting members and voting members of the Society’s Membership Board.

Members-at-Large represent the member viewpoint 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.

More information on the IEEE SPS can be found on Signal Processing Society website.​