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Prof. Sharon Gannot
Ramat-Gan, Israel
for contributions to acoustical modelling and statistical learning in speech enhancement
Dr. Jingdong Chen
Xi'an, China
for contributions to microphone array processing and speech enhancement in noisy and reverberant
environments
Yifan Gong
Redmond, WA, USA
for leadership in creating cloud speech recognition services in industry
Lori Lamel
Orsay, France
The 2018 IEEE-EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing (S3P-2018) is the 6th edition of a successful series, organized by the IEEE SPS Italy Chapter and the National Telecommunications and Information Technologies Group – GTTI, with the sponsorship of IEEE (S3P program) and EURASIP (Seasonal School Co-Sponsorship agreement).
The school will be held in San Vincenzo (Livorno), Italy, September 10-14, 2018.
The theme of the 6th edition of the school is Signal Processing for Information Security
Our heartiest congratulations to Mari Ostendorf, winner of the 2017 SPS Meritorious Service Award “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.” Mari’s service to SPS has included membership many SPS committees, including the Speech Processing Technical Committee (1990-93), the SPS DSP Education Committee (1992-93), the SPS Awards Committee (2009, 2015) and the SPS Awards Board (2015-2016), the SPS Executive Committee (2012-2014). She also served on the SPS Board of Governors (2009-2014) and was Vice President for Publications for SPS (2012-2014).&nb