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This issue brings to you our interview with Dr. Ervin Sejdić, an Associate Professor at the Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, where he directs a research laboratory focused on engineering developments in medicine. His research has focused on creating computational biomarkers indicative of age- and disease-related changes in functional outcomes such as swallowing, gait, and handwriting. 

Vimal Bhatia is a Professor in the Discipline of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. He is also an associated faculty with Centre for Advanced Electronics and Discipline of Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Space Engineering at IIT Indore.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is launching PROGRESS -  an initiative aiming to motivate and support women and under-represented minorities to pursue academic careers in signal processing. 2020 PROGRESS Workshop at ICIP 2020 (Virtual), 26-27 October 2020. Submission Deadline is 20 October 2020!

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has extended the nomination period for the position of the Chair, Young Professionals Committee in order to allow for a more diverse slate of candidates.

Dr. Mari Ostendorf is an Endowed Professor of System Design Methodologies at the University of Washington in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, currently serving as Associate Vice Provost for Research. She is also an Adjunct Professor in Linguistics and in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.

In recent years, we have seen the emergence of new compute-intensive and delay-critical mobile applications, such as virtual/augmented reality, online gaming, ultra-high-definition video streaming and autonomous driving. Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has become a key technology in 5G networks to shift computational tasks from resource-limited mobile devices to nearby servers placed at the edge of the network.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) would like to express our concern and support for the members of our global community and all affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic.

As a reminder, most of the SPS publications have eliminated month-based issues and moved to a volume-only, continuous pagination model. This allows for rapid dissemination of content for our journals and now, articles are posted to their respective journals on IEEEXplore® nearly every day!