The Signal Processing Society (SPS) has 12 Technical Committee that support a broad selection of signal processing-related activities defined by the scope of the Society.

Nominations are due 15 January annually for the IEEE Technical Field Awards (TFAs). Download nomination forms and award-specific criteria.

Yashwant Gupta  is a Professor and Centre Director at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune, India.  NCRA is one of the national centres of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).  Prof. Gupta’s research interests are in the broad area of radio astronomy, which special emphasis on the studies of pulsars...

This issue brings to you our interview with Dr. Abhishek Mahesh Appaji, an active IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Professional. I am working as an Institutional Coordinator for R&D and Assistant Professor at B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India. I obtained my Bachelor of Engineering in Medical Electronics with University Rank from BMSCE, and a Masters of Engineering (M.E) in Bioinformatics from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore.

Dr. Behnaz Ghoraani is an Associate Professor and the founder and director of the Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis lab at the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Before joining FAU, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (2012-2016).

The IEEE Signal Processing Society Delhi Chapter has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Chapter of the Year Award! The Chapter of the Year Award will be presented at the ICASSP 2021 Awards Ceremony in Toronto, Canada. 

The space of good ideas may be finite, while the names we give these ideas are infinite. There are many examples of redundant nomenclature. Just open the Wikipedia entry on Principal Component Analysis, to realize it was discovered and rediscovered under the names Discrete Karhunen–Loève Transform; Hotelling Transform; Proper Orthogonal Decomposition; Eckart–Young Theorem; Schmidt–Mirsky Theorem; Empirical Orthogonal Functions; Empirical Eigenfunction Decomposition; Empirical Component Analysis; Quasi-Harmonic Modes; Spectral Decomposition; Empirical Modal Analysis, and possibly more.

EEE Signal Processing Society Vice President-Education Shrikanth (Shri) S. Narayanan invites nominations for the positions of Chief Editor, Signal Processing Repository (SigPort) and Chief Editor, Resource Center for a 3-year term starting 1 January 2022. Nominations must be received no later than 5 April 2021.