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| President's Message: EURASIP Fellows 2014 |
In 2007, the EURASIP Board of Directors (BoD) initiated a “Fellowship Programme”, to recognize outstanding achievements of its members and volunteers. Each year, a select group of signal processing researchers are elevated to “EURASIP Fellow”, the Association's most prestigious honour.
It is my pleasure to announce the result of the 2014 selection process. In recognition of their many important contributions to the field of signal processing, the EURASIP BoD elevates the following individuals to “EURASIP Fellow 2014”:
- Prof. Nikolaos Sidiropoulos (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA) for contributions to tensor decomposition and signal processing for communications.
- Prof. Alle-Jan van der Veen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) for contributions to array signal processing applied to communications and radio astronomy.
- Prof. Miguel Lagunas (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain) for contributions in the application of multi-antenna signal processing techniques to satellite systems.
- Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT), Germany) for contributions to perceptual audio coding.
I wish to congratulate our new EURASIP Fellows on this most important achievement. The Fellowship Awards will be presented at EUSIPCO 2014, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 1-5, 2014.
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contributed by Fulvio Gini, EURASIP President
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| EURASIP Society Awards Presented at EUSIPCO 2014 |
The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) congratulates the following colleagues who will receive the Society’s prestigious awards. The awards will be presented at EUSIPCO 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Technical Achievement Award honours a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact in this field. This year’s recipient is Prof. William J. Fitzgerald, “For contributions in applications of Bayesian theory in signal processing”.
The Group Technical Achievement Award is given to the head of a group in academia or industry that has achieved significant contributions in signal processing and related areas over a number of years. This year’s recipient is Prof. Gianni Vernazza, “For contributions to signal processing and pattern recognition with applications to remote sensing, communications and biomedical imaging”.
The Meritorious Service Award is given to recognize individuals who have given distinguished service to the Society in the form of significant contributions to the development of EURASIP, distinguished service to the advancement and pursuit of the technical objectives of EURASIP, or active cooperation in actions supported or sponsored by EURASIP. This year’s recipient is Prof. Sergios Theodoridis, “For contributions at the highest technical level of achievement in service of the Society”.
The Athanasios Papoulis Award is given to honour scientists whose work has had a major impact on various aspects of signal processing education. The award is offered only when there is an exceptional candidate nomination and not on a regular basis. This year’s recipient is Prof. Ali H. Sayed, “For fundamental contributions to the advancement of research and education in the areas of adaptive and statistical signal processing”.
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contributed by Patrick A. Naylor, EURASIP Awards Chair
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| EURASIP Awards: Call for Fellow Nominations |
EURASIP Fellow nominations are invited with a deadline of October 31st, 2014.
The EURASIP fellowship programme recognizes outstanding achievements of its members and volunteers. Each year, a select group of up to four European signal processing researchers are elevated to EURASIP Fellow, the Association’s most prestigious honour. Fellowships are awarded with a citation of the form “for contributions to ...”, i.e. referring to a major long-term contribution to a technical field.
How to Submit Nominations
Any EURASIP member can nominate a colleague to be elevated to Fellow grade. Nominations should be submitted to the EURASIP Awards Chair by e-mail. The nomination form can be downloaded from the EURASIP website via this link.
The deadline is October 31st of every year. The Board of Directors encourages you to share this information with your colleagues.
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contributed by Patrick A. Naylor, EURASIP Awards Chair
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| New EURASIP Local Liaisons |
Two new EURASIP Local Liaisons are welcomed:
Dr. Daniele Giacobello
Senior Research Engineer
Beats Electronics, LLC
1601 Clovefield Blvd., Suite 5000N
Santa Monica
USA
Dr. Munevver Kokuer
School of Digital Media Technology
Faculty of Technology, Engineering and the Environment
Birmingham City University
Millennium Point
Birmingham
UK
For any one interested in joining the Local Liaison team and propose EURASIP activities, do not hesitate to contact Ana I. Perez Neira. More information is available at the LL section of the EURASIP website.
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contributed by Ana Pérez-Neira, EURASIP Membership Development Coordinator
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| 3MT First Prize Sponsorship |
The three minutes thesis competition (3MT) is a research communication competition where PhD students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance. It is an exercise for students to consolidate their ideas so they can present them concisely to a non-specialist audience. Together with scientific and technical quality, EURASIP wants to promote transversal skills of PhD researchers such as oral and presentation skills, also it wants to help PhDs to gain visibility of their work. For this reason EURASIP encourages its members to organize 3MT either in their institutions: University, PhD school, Academia, Research Centre or in any conference, workshop, seasonal school or research event. Prizes are an important incentive for students entering the competition and EURASIP will give a 1.500 EUR research travel grant to the first prize so that this PhD or PhD student can attend next year’s EUSIPCO.
Details on how to start a 3MT competition can be found at the 3MT website.
If you are organizing a 3MT competition and would like to apply for EURASIP sponsorship, you should contact Ana I. Perez Neira.
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contributed by Ana Pérez-Neira, EURASIP Membership Development Coordinator
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| EURASIP Seminars |
| Upcoming Seminars |
Date |
Location |
CUTE 2014 masterclasses
by Miller Puckette, Marc Leman, Christophe d’Alessandro, Sébastien Roy |
Mar. 12-15, 2014 |
Numediart Institute, Mons, Belgium
EURASIP Liaison: Thierry Dutoit |
Multilingual automatic speech recognition (Keynote at SLTU’14)
by Satoshi Nakamura |
May 14-16, 2014 |
SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
EURASIP Liaison: Alexey Karpov |
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| Reports and technical presentations of past EURASIP Seminars can be found on the EURASIP Seminars webpage.
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contributed by Ana Pérez-Neira, EURASIP Membership Development Coordinator
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| Calendar of EURASIP Co-Sponsored Events |
| Event organizers who wish to apply for EURASIP co-sponsorship should send an e-mail to the EURASIP Events Coordinator, containing the following information: (1) Name of the conference/workshop, (2) Place and dates, (3) Previous editions of the conference/workshop, (4) Previous co-sponsorship, (5) Expected number of attendees, (6) Names of plenary speakers, (7) A rationale as to why EURASIP should sponsor the conference/workshop.
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Location |
EUSIPCO 2014, 22nd European Signal Processing Conference
(Paper submission deadline: Mar. 6, 2014) |
Sep. 1-5, 2014 |
Lisbon, Portugal |
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contributed by Abdelhak Zoubir, EURASIP Events Coordinator
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| Job Posts |
EURASIP encourages employers to post open research positions in Signal Processing on the EURASIP Job Site.
Open positions will be continuously accessible online and will be advertised monthly in the EURASIP Newsletter.
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contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator
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