38 SPS Members Elevated to IEEE Fellow

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following 38 SPS members who were recognized with the grade of Fellow as of 1 January 2010:

Martin J. Bastiaans, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Ahmet Enis Cetin, Laurent Cohen, David Daniels, Michel Defrise, Ray Dolby, Hesham M. El-Gamal, Mário Alexandre Teles Figueiredo, Daniel R. Fuhrmann, Marc Hillel Goldburg, Matti A. Karjalainen, Bart Kosko, B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, Andrew Francis Laine, Seong-Whan Lee, Peyman Milanfar, Randolph Lyle Moses, Aria Nosratinia, Robert Nowak, Roberto Pieraccini, Douglas A. Reynolds, Giuseppe Riccardi, Yong Rui, Motoyuki Sato, Mihaela van der Schaar, Robert Schober, Dan Schonfeld, Andrew C. Singer, Malcolm Graham Slaney, Frank K. Soong, Milica Stojanovic, Daniel Trudnowski, Vishu R. Viswanathan, Howard C. Yang, Feng Zhao, Wenwu Zhu, and Xinhua Zhuang.

Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to one-tenth percent of the members. To qualify for consideration, an individual must have been a Member, normally for five years or more, and a Senior Member at the time for nomination to Fellow. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in IEEE’s designated fields. Visit this SPS webpage for full citations of these new fellows and more information about the Fellow program.  Nominations are now being accepted till March 1, 2010, for the IEEE Fellow Class of 2011.