IEEE Signal Processing Society has several programs to strengthen engagement between the members of the society, its leadership and the technical communities.
The existence of gender imbalance in STEM fields continues to this day. UNESCO, in 2015, reported worldwide under-representation of women in STEM fields with only 30% women researchers in various fields. The key reasons of this disparity are lack of encouragement, guidance and resources.
The Member Election Subcommittee of the SLTC is announcing the results of the elections for members filling the 2020-2022 term. In this year's election, we had 17 openings in 9 areas that took into account retirements and recent ICASSP trends.
Dear Speech and Language Processing Community,
Happy new year! I hope that you all have had a successful conclusion to 2019 and that 2020 is an even brighter year. Indeed, our community is vibrant and growing: as we are in the middle of the ICASSP review process as I am writing this, I can report that the papers submitted to SLTC areas (encompassing Speech Processing and Human Language Technologies) grew by over 25% from the previous ICASSP.