This issue brings to you our interview with Dr. Subhro Das, an active IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Professional.  I am a Research Staff Member at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research in Cambridge USA. The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a first of its kind industry-academic collaboration between IBM Research and MIT, focus on fundamental research problems at the vanguard of artificial intelligence.

Each month, the Chapter Briefs Newsletter will feature an OU Analytics Tip that will be helpful to all who utilize the OU Analytics tool.  This month's Tip features a New Volunteer Role Filter in OU Analytics.

The signal processing cup, called the SP Cup, is an annual competition in the IEEE ICASSP conference. The goal of this competition is to encourage teams of 3-10 undergraduate students to solve real world problems using tools from signal processing.

This year the Signal Processing Society identified 8 Chapters who exhibited excellence in many facets of chapter management, member recruitment, and activities.

Future networks must provide services to a range of applications and devices with competing and perhaps conflicting requirements while simultaneously allowing flexible deployment. Software Defined Networks (SDN) have a critical role to play in securing such networks against sophisticated security attacks, with its ability to manage dynamically security policies for monitoring and controlling traffic and enforcing them via virtualized network functions. 

Given the impossibility of travel during the COVID-19 crisis,  Computational Imaging TC is launching an SPS Webinar Series SPACE (Signal Processing And Computational imagE formation) as a regular bi-weekly online seminar series to reach out to the global computational imaging and signal processing community.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter of the Year Award will be presented for the 10th time in 2021. The award will be presented annually to a Chapter that has provided their membership with the highest quality of programs, activities and services. The award will be presented annually in conjunction with the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) to the Chapter’s representative.

The blood vessels of the brain and the retina share common embryological origins and have comparable anatomy and physiology. In this thesis, patients with Schizophrenia (SCZ) and Bipolar disorder (BD) were recruited and compared with healthy volunteers (HV). We examined the diameters of the retinal venules and arterioles for abnormalities in patients and HV. 

The MGA Training Committee is pleased to announce the launch of the 2020 Volunteer Leadership Training (VoLT) Program. The VoLT Program invites volunteers who have a desire to continue growing as IEEE volunteers and lead their local units to complete the program's prerequisite courses and apply for the program when the application opens in June.