In this column of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 46 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) members are recognized as IEEE Fellows and award recipients are announced.

Starting in 2017, the Women in Signal Processing (WISP) Subcommittee became a standing committee of the Membership Board, rather than a subcommittee of the Member Services Committee. This means that the WISP chair now holds a seat on the Membership Board.

In this column of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 39 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) members are recognized as IEEE Fellows and award recipients are announced.

39 SPS members elevated to Fellow:
Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to one-tenth of 1% of the voting 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. 

Three new members-at-large will take their seats on the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Board of Governors (BoG) beginning 1 January 2018 and will serve until 31 December 2020. Nine candidates competed for the three member-at-large positions. The successful candidates represent a broad spectrum of the SPS. The successful candidates are: Shoji Makino, Athina P. Petropulu, Paris Smaragdis.

2018 class of DLsThe IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has announced the 2018 Class of Distinguished Lecturers (DLs) for the term of 1 January 2018 to 31 Decem- ber 2019. In addition, a special Signal Processing Data Science DL has also been named to explicitly address the areas of signal processing and data sci- ence for the same term. The IEEE SPS DL Program provides a means for Chap- ters to have access to well-known educa- tors and authors in the fields of signal processing to lecture at Chapter meetings.