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DSI Webinar series on Data Science on Graphs (DEGAS). These monthly talks provide the SP community with updates and advances in learning and inference on graphs. Signal processing and machine learning often deal with data living in regular domains such as space and time. This webinar series covers the extension of these methods to network data. Visit the website.

Upcoming Events

DSLW 2025 - Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications. Organized by Minje Kim, Dinesh Manocha, John Hershey, and Trausti Kristjansson.


Past Events

DSLW 2024 - Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA) - the 2024 edition of the IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop (DSLW) series. This workshop will be held at the ICASSP 2024 venue (COEX, Seoul, Korea).

DSLW 2022 (2022 IEEE Data Science & Learning Workshop) is co-located with ICASSP 2022, and will be held at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, on May 22-23, 2022. The workshop is organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (supported by the SPS Data Science Initiative). Evolved from the IEEE Data Science Workshop, DSLW 2022 is a high-quality workshop that brings together researchers in academia and industry to share the most recent and exciting advances in data science and learning theory, and applications in various domains (e.g., health care, earth and environmental science, applied physics, finance and economics, intelligent manufacturing).

New webinar talk series: Data Science on Graphs (DEGAS)

4 November 2021: Start of the DSI Webinar series on Data Science on Graphs. These biweekly talks provide the SP community with updates and advances in learning and inference on graphs. Signal processing and machine learning often deal with data living in regular domains such as space and time. This webinar series will cover the extension of these methods to network data.

First presentation is November 4, 2021: "Network GPS - A Perturbative Theory of Network Dynamics" by Baruch Barzel (Bar-Ilan University)

2021-2022 Brain Space Initiative talk series

The Brain Space Initiative talk series continues in Fall 2021 with a new series of talks in the domain of non-invasive brain imaging techniques. You can also join one of the 8 study/discussion groups. Also, don't miss the Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Club presentations! Deadline for paper submission: 10 November 2021

Brain Space Initiative Talk Series: Leveraging biological knowledge: From Brain Mapping to predictive models

September 25, 2020: The Brain Space Initiative Talk Series: Leveraging biological knowledge: From Brain Mapping to predictive models, as part of the activities of the Brain Space Initiative, co-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative, IEEE Signal Processing Society. Presented by Dr. Simon Eickhoff. The long predominant paradigm in neuroimaging has been to compare (mean) local volume or activity between groups, or to correlate these to behavioral phenotypes. Such approach, however, is intrinsically limited in terms of possible insight into inter-individual differences and application in clinical practice. Recently, the increasing availability of large cohort data and tools for multivariate statistical learning, allowing the prediction of individual cognitive or clinical phenotypes in new subjects, have started a revolution in imaging neuroscience.

2021 IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop (DSLW 2021)

June 5-6, 2021: The 2021 IEEE Data Science & Learning Workshop (DSLW 2021), to be co-located with ICASSP 2021, will be held at the University of Toronto on June 05-06, 2021. The workshop is organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. It aims to bring together researchers in academia and industry to share the most recent and exciting advances in data science and learning theory and applications. The workshop provides a venue for innovative data science & learning studies in various academic disciplines, including signal processing, statistics, machine learning, data mining and computer vision.

Collaboration at ICASSP

Collaborative Sessions at ICASSP 2020.

In order to highlight the fact that "Data Science" really comprises a lot of signal processing and cuts across numerous areas within signal processing, the DSI organized two "collaborative sessions in data science" at ICASSP 2020 consisting of papers that consider common problems in data science:

These sessions featured 12 papers with topics ranging from financial engineering to music recommendations to dictionary learning, showcasing the broad range of topics in data science.

First TReNDS Neuroimaging Competition

The First TReNDS Neuroimaging Competition: Multiscanner normative age and assessments prediction with brain function, structure, and connectivity

Human brain research is among the most complex areas of study for scientists. With much of the research using MRI scans, data scientists are well positioned to support future insights. In particular, neuroimaging specialists look for measurable markers of behavior, health, or disorder to help identify relevant brain regions and their contribution to typical or symptomatic effects. In this competition, participants predict multiple assessments plus age from multimodal brain MRI features.

  • 3H: Highly complex, heterogeneous, and high-dimensional data
    • 3H: Highly complex, heterogeneous, and high-dimensional data
    • 3R: Robustness, reproducibility, replicability

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Data Science Initiative

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Data Science in Signal Processing

Mission and Vision

Data Science is a theme that is at the core of many activities within the Signal Processing Society. Recently we have seen many IEEE groups focusing or pivoting towards data-driven methods. The mission of the Data Science Initiative (DSI) is to provide a common point of reference for data-related activities in SPS. It will represent the interests of all Technical Committees and Special Interest Groups, focus on providing technical guidance on data matters, and facilitate the organization of data-related activities such as symposia, special sessions, curriculum development, etc.

 

The DSI has been extensively involved in educational activities aiming to define the uniqueness of the signal processing perspective in DS education.

  1. ICASSP 2022 Panel - Data Science Education: The Signal Processing Perspective
  2. IEEE SPS AI Panel - The Impact of Recent ML & AI Advancements in Signal Processing Education (organized by the SPS Education Center)
  3. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine - Data Science Education: The Signal Processing Perspective

Upcoming Conferences & Events

  • DSLW 2025: Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications. Organized by Minje Kim, Dinesh Manocha, John Hershey and Trausti Kristjansson.
  • TReNDS and the DSI co-sponsor the Brain Space Initiative Talk Series with monthly talks on various neuroimaging topics by experts in the field.
  • Monthly event: DSI Webinar series on Data Science on Graphs (DEGAS). These monthly talks provide the SP community with updates and advances in learning and inference on graphs. Signal processing and machine learning often deal with data living in regular domains such as space and time. This webinar series covers the extension of these methods to network data.

Contacts

Data Science Workshop Websites

 


Members

Note: Dates in parenthesis denotes term end date. 

Steering Committee Members

Sharon Gannot - Chair / TC (12/31/25)Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Selin Aviyente - Vice Chair(12/31/25)Michigan State University, USA
Vince Calhoun / BISP TC (12/31/25)Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, USA
Geert Leus (12/31/25)Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Arvind Rao / BISP TC (12/31/25)University of Michigan, USA
Dorina Thanou (12/31/25)École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

 

Members (Term ends: 12/31/2025)

NameAssociated TC
Salman AsifCI TC
Waheed Bajwa SAM TC, SPCOM TC, SPTM TC
Yuejie ChiSAM TC
Domenico Ciuonzo  SPCOM TC
Angelo ColucciaSAM TC
Rodrigo De Lamare SPCOM TC
Tiago Henrique FalkAASP TC
Daniele GiacobelloAASP TC
Doga GursoyCI TC
Martin Haardt SAM TC, SPTM TC
Emanuel HabetsAASP TC
William Hartmann  SL TC
Nobutaka ItoAASP TC
Roozbeh JafariApplied Signal Processing TC,  Wearables Sensors TC (EMBS)
Jithin JagannathApplied Signal Processing TC
Yiannis KompatsiarisIVMSP TC
Zhu LiIVMSP TC
Che LinMLSP TC
Wei LiuSAM TC
David J. MillerMLSP TC
David Morales SPCOM TC
Shashikant PatilApplied Signal Processing TC
Arvind RaoBISP TC
Cédric RichardSPTM TC
Zheng-Hua TanSL TC
Annalisa VerdolivaIFS TC
Hoi-To WaiSPCOM TC
Atlas WangCI TC
Xiao-Ping ZhangIVMSP TC

 

Associate Members

NameAffiliation
Geert LeusTU Delft, The Netherlands
Neeraj Kumar SharmaIIT Guwahati, India
Dorina ThanouEPFL, Switzerland

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