IEEE SPS 2020 Members-at-Large and Regional Directors-at-Large Election Results

Ali H. Sayed
SPS Past President and Chair, Nominations and Appointments Committee

Member-at-Large Election Results:

Three new Members-at-Large will take their seats on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors beginning 1 January 2021 and will serve until 31 December 2023. Nine candidates competed for the three Member-at-Large positions. These successful candidates represent a broad spectrum of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The new Members-at-Large are:
 

Fulvio Gini University of Pisa

Bhuvana Ramabhadran Google, Inc.

Namrata Vaswani Iowa State University

Dr. Ana Isabel Pérez-Neira, current IEEE Signal Processing Society Member-at-Large, will be vacating her Member-at-Large seat in order to serve as the IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President-Conferences starting in 2021. The new Member-at-Large to fill her seat beginning 1 January 2021 and ending 31 December 2021 is:
 

Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Completing their terms as Members-at-Large on 31 December 2020 are: Shoji Makino, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Marc Moonen, KU Leuven, Belgium; and Paris Smaragdis, University of Illinois, USA. The Board of Governors (BoG) is the governing body that oversees the activities of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The SPS BoG has the responsibility of establishing and implementing policy, and receiving reports from its standing boards and committees. Members-at-Large represent the member view point 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 can be found at the IEEE Signal Processing Society website.

Regional Directors-at-Large Election Results:

Two new Regional Directors-at-Large will take their seats on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors and Membership Board beginning 1 January 2021 and will serve until 31 December 2022. Regional Directors-at-Large promote and foster local activities (such as conferences, meetings, social networking) and encourage new chapter development; represent their regions to the core of SPS; offer advice to improve membership relations, recruiting and service to their regions; guide and work with their corresponding chapters to serve their members; and assist the Vice President-Membership in conducting chapter reviews. The new Regional Directors-at-Large are:
 

Iole Moccagatta Intel (Region 1-6)

Maria Sabrina Greco University of Pisa (Region 8)

Completing their terms as Regional Directors-at-Large on 31 December 2020 are: Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Google, Inc. for Regions 1-6 and Cédric Richard, Laboratoire Lagrange - UMR for Region 8.