This welcome message marks the start of the new year and comes at the tail end of a several months long busy period of the SLTC. First of all, there is the yearly election cycle, carefully administered by our election sub-committee. Please join me in thanking 12 member who retired their position at the end of 2016: Tomoki Toda, Gernot Kubin, Maurizio Omologo, Nicholas Evans, Larry Heck, Peder Olsen, Frank Seide, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Deep Sen, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Jasha Droppo and George Saon. And please join me in welcoming the class of 2019.
PhD and Postdoc positions available,
- For research in Wireless Communication Networks, Signal Processing, Information Theory, and Caching.
- at EURECOM - Sophia Antipolis, France (ideally located in the heart of the French Riviera, inside the multi-cultural silicon valley of Europe).
(EURECOM is one of Europe's premium Graduate Schools in telecommunications. English is the official and only language of the University)
Kush R. Varshney, research staff member and manager in the Data Science Group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Communication, speech processing, seismology and radar are well-known applications of signal processing that contribute to the betterment of humanity. But is there a more direct way that signal and information processing can reduce poverty, hunger, inequality, injustice, ill health and other causes of human suffering?
Lecture Date: September 7, 2017
Chapter: Italy
Chapter Chair: Stefano Tubaro
Topic: Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
Lecture Date: March 12, 2017
Chapter: UAE
Chapter Chair: Bayan Sharif
Topic: High High Resolution Optical and SAR Satellite Image Processing for Disaster
Management Using Hierarchical MRFs