Newsletter – Vol. 27, April 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Best PhD Thesis Awards
New blog series about SpringerOpen EURASIP journals launched
New Associate Editors for EURASIP-Springer Journals
Calendar of Events
Upcoming EURASIP Summer Schools
Open Special Issues
Published Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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EURASIP Awards: Announcement 2016 Best PhD Award
EURASIP, the European Signal Processing Association (http://www.eurasip.org), created and maintains a database of PhD manuscripts at http://theses.eurasip.org, which is one of the World's largest in the area of signal processing. The database also keeps track of monthly downloads.

Every year a committee of experts nominated by the EURASIP BoD selects up to three theses related to different areas of signal processing to be awarded. The selection process is based on the evaluation of the impact of the theses, their subsequent journal and conference publications and related citations received, and on the review reports of the independent reviewers as well as on the download statistics.

The 2016 winners are:

Emil Björnson, for the thesis titled “Multiantenna Cellular Communications: Channel Estimation, Feedback, and Resource Allocation”, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2011, supervised by Björn Ottersten and Mats Bengtsson.

Florian Roemer for the thesis titled “Advanced Algebraic Concepts for Efficient Multi-Channel Signal Processing”, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, 2013, supervised by Martin Haardtández.

Many congratulations to these winners on behalf of the EURASIP Board of Directors.
contributed by Ana Perez-Neira, EURASIP Awards Coordinator back to top
New blog series about SpringerOpen EURASIP journals launched
SpringerOpen recently launched a series of blog posts about the 7 SpringerOpen EURASIP journals.
The blog series already includes interviews with some of the journals’ Editors-in-Chief and with our Director of Publications Alle-Jan van der Veen.
They tell us more about themselves, the journals, and open access. The Editors also provide useful tips for submitting to their journal and more.
Click here to read interviews.
contributed by Alle-Jan van der Veen, EURASIP Publications Chair back to top
New Associate Editors for EURASIP-Springer Journals
EURASIP maintains a portfolio of seven Open Access journals published by SpringerOpen, and can only do so thanks to the excellent management by the seven Editors-in-Chief and the strong commitment of over 300 Associate Editors. We are therefore delighted to announce the appointment of 17 new Associate Editors for the EURASIP journals published by SpringerOpen.
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Affiliation
Eduardo de la Torre Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Mehmet Celenk Ohio University (USA)
Jianguo Zhang University of Dundee (USA)
Konstantinos Slavakis University at Buffalo (USA)
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Affiliation
Thomas D. Lagkas University of Sheffield International Faculty (Greece)
Qian Gao University of Science and Technology of China (China)
Marco Baldi Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy)
Hongjian Sun Durham University (UK)
EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Affiliation
Chirayu Goswami Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (USA)
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Affiliation
Nam Ik Cho Seoul National University (Republic of Korea)
Frank Hartung FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
EURASIP Journal on Information Security Affiliation
Zekeriya Erkin Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Andreas Peter University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Edgar Weippl SBA Research (Austria)
Dominik Engel Josef Ressel Center for User-Centric Smart Grid Privacy, Security and Control (Austria)
Delphine Reinhardt Universität Bonn (Germany)
Zhiyong Z. Zhang Henan University of Science and Technology (China)
contributed by Alle-Jan van der Veen, EURASIP Publications Chair back to top
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.
Reports of past EURASIP co-sponsored events can be found on the 'Past Conferences' webpage.
Name & Link Date Location
IWSSIP 2016, The 23rd International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing May 23-25, 2016 Bratislava, Slovakia
EuCNC 2016, European Conference on Networks and Communications June 27-30, 2016 Athens, Greece
contributed by Patrick A. Naylor, EURASIP Events Coordinator back to top
Upcoming EURASIP Summer Schools
The EURASIP BoD welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of seasonal schools. For more information, click here.
Name & Link Date Location
IEEE-EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing Semantics in Media September 4-10, 2016 Cavalese (TN), Italy
EURASIP Summer School on Robust Signal Processing September 19-26, 2016 Rüdesheim (Rhine), Germany
contributed by Jean-Luc Dugelay, EURASIP Membership Development Coordinator back to top
Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
Speech Communication Deadline
Auditory-visual expressive speech and gesture in humans and machines Dec. 15, 2016
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
Advanced Techniques for Radar Signal Processing May 1, 2016
Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing - A Special Issue in Honour of Giovanni L. Sicuranza on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday June. 26, 2016
Advanced Computational Methods for Bayesian Signal Processing Sep. 30, 2016
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
Intelligent Mobility Management for Future Wireless Networks May. 31, 2016
Advances and Emergence in Participatory Sensing on Mobile Social Media Analytics May. 31, 2016
Full-Duplex Radio: Theory, Design, and Applications Jun. 30, 2016
Emerging Air Interfaces and Management Technologies for the 5G Era Oct. 5, 2016
EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Deadline
Cloud Computing for Genomics Aug. 1, 2016
Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning Aug. 31, 2016
Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition for Comparative Genomics Dec. 31, 2016
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems Deadline
Embedded Systems for Mobile Crowd Sensing Networks Jul. 31, 2016
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Deadline
Mobile Image and Video Processing Jun. 1, 2016
EURASIP Journal on Information Security Deadline
Emerging Technologies for Cybersecurity Oct. 01, 2016
contributed by Alexander Bertrand, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
Recently Published Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
Signal Processing Issue
Signal Processing for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Edited by Qilian Liang, Tariq Durrani, Yiming Pi and Sherwood Samn
Sep. 2016
contributed by Alexander Bertrand, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
Recently submitted Ph.D. Theses in EURASIP Library
Author Title & Link University Supervisors Publication Year
Galdi, Chiara Design and development of multi-biometric systems University of Salerno and EURECOM Genoveffa Tortora, Jean-Luc Dugelay 2016
Brandt, Rasmus Distributed Coordination in Multiantenna Cellular Networks KTH Royal Institute of Technology Mats Bengtsson 2016
Marendic, Petar Distributed Memory Reduction Operations in Presence of Process Desynchronization Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jan Lemeire, Peter Schelkens 2016
Belloch, Jose A. Performance Improvement of Multichannel Audio by Graphics Processing Units Universitat Politècnica de València Alberto Gonzalez, Antonio M. Vidal 2014
Hoydis, Jakob Random matrix theory for advanced communication systems Supélec, France Mérouane Debbah, Mari Kobayahitd> 2012
Chi, Shuli Signal Processing for Energy-Efficient Burst-Mode RF Transmitters Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory Gernot Kubin, Christian Vogel 2014
contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator back to top
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.
Open Positions Institution Location Closing Date
PostDoc Medical Image Computing & Machine Learning University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK May. 5, 2017
Big data processing using sparse tensor representations University of Paris/ENS-Cachan/CNRS-I3S/UFC Paris, FR Oct. 1, 2016
ERC-funded PhD and postdoc positions in machine learning & signal processing CNRS Toulouse, FR Dec. 31, 2016
PhD position - Machine learning for multimodality image segmentation University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK Jan. 1, 2017
contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator back to top
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