My vision for the Signal Processing Society is to strengthen the community that promotes signal processing to advance technology for humanity. Toward this goal, I pledge to pursue the following objectives:
Enable active engagement of all stakeholders to make SPS a diverse, inclusive, equitable, sustainable and vibrant community.
Expand the community by reaching out to professionals in other disciplines that use signal processing.
Educate the next generation of technologists about the power of signal processing tools.
Embrace new disruptive tools and technology innovations.
Enhance the technical level of conferences and journals to make them the “go-to” destination for researchers, industry professionals and policy makers.
Encourage strong industry-academia relationships that promote innovation.
Empower chapters, technical committees, and industry groups to provide enhanced member benefits at affordable cost.
Engage with the community in an open, transparent, and ethical manner.
The future of signal processing involves embracing new application areas, triggering the development of new theoretical and practical tools, contributing to the body of knowledge and enabling innovation.
The effective education of the next generation signal processing researchers and practitioners is critical for rapid creation and deployment of emerging technologies. SPS must play a key role in accelerating the pace of continuing education, at scale. My priority will be to enable access to curated multimedia education content by leveraging the talented SPS educator community in academia and industry, and to empower SPS chapters to organize educational events, for students of all ages and preparation, with active collaboration between industry and academia to address problems with local context.
Excellence in SP research is vital. Organizing affordable, inclusive, accessible, sustainable, and joyous conferences is imperative. SPS journals need to be the destination of highest quality work and policies for quick reviewing and affordability will be put in place.
Innovation is key and disruptive ideas will be encouraged in all SPS activities to create breakthroughs in technology solutions for challenging problems of relevance to humanity. An annual networking event inviting thought leaders, futurists, distinguished academicians, smart innovators and funding agencies will be organized to create a vibrant community that will shape the technology landscape of the future.
Standardization is vital for the rapid adoption of technologies and a framework to organize workshops on standardization with the active involvement of standards bodies, industry practitioners and academia at SPS chapters, and conferences will be established.
Diversity, equity and Inclusion are important cornerstones of our Society and I will support and enhance processes to imbibe and ingrain this ethos in our volunteers and staff. We will make SPS an inviting place for women, underrepresented groups, and others to express freely and to pursue excellence joyfully!
My substantial experience as a volunteer in different positions in my professional career and in the IEEE and SPS have prepared me to take this global responsibility of propelling the society to new heights. We will do this as a team and in the spirit of service to “be good and do good”.
The Special Election for the 2025 IEEE SPS President-Elect will open on 6 February 2025, and close on 26 March 2025. There will be four candidates on the President-Elect Special Election ballot: two individuals nominated by the SPS Board of Governors and two nominated through the IEEE petition process. The candidates are:
K.V.S. Hari (nominated by SPS Board of Governors)
Ana Perez-Neira (nominated by SPS Board of Governors)
Marc Moonen (nominated by petition)
Nicholas Sidiropoulos (nominated by petition)
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