The DSLW team is inviting you to submit regular papers to the 2021 IEEE Data Science & Learning Workshop (DSLW 2021), a new workshop organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The workshop aims to bring together researchers in academia and industry to share the most recent and exciting advances in data science, learning theory and applications.

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.

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.

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

This issue brings to you our interview with Dr. Hamid Palangi, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Lab (AI) in Redmond, Washington. His current research interests are mainly in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Reasoning across Language and Vision.

Dr. Hema A. Murthy received the bachelor's degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 1980, the master's degree from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India, in 1992.

Venkat Padmanabhan is Deputy Managing Director at Microsoft Research India in Bengaluru. He was previously with Microsoft Research Redmond, USA for nearly 9 years. Venkat’s research interests are broadly in networked and mobile systems, and his work over the years has led to highly-cited papers and paper awards, technology transfers within Microsoft, and also industry impact. He can be reached online at http://research.microsoft.com/~padmanab/.