Newsletter – Vol. 32, January 2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS
New BoD task distribution
EURASIP Fellows 2021
Calendar of Events
EURASIP Seasonal Schools
Open Special Issues
Published Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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New BoD task distribution
We are delighted to welcome Maria Sabrina Greco to the Board of Directors following the recent BoD elections. She will take over the role of Director for Awards from Kostas Berberidis.
Joining the BoD is a significant voluntary task. Therefore, many thanks go to Maria Sabrina Greco for her willingness to be nominated and serve in this way.

Kostas Berberidis and Toon van Waterschoot were re-elected for a second term. Toon van Waterschoot will remain in his current position of Director for Operations and Finance. Kostas Berberidis will become Director for Publications, taking over from Alle-Jan van der Veen. Alle-Jan van der Veen is standing down from the BoD because he has reached the end of his second term, the maximum allowed under the rules.
I want to express huge thanks to Alle-Jan on behalf of the entire Association, myself personally, and the BoD.
Thank you Alle-Jan for all your efforts and many achievements!
contributed by Patrick Naylor, EURASIP President back to top
EURASIP Fellows 2021
In recognition of outstanding achievements in the broad field of Signal Processing, the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) elevates each year a select group of up to a maximum of four scholars to “EURASIP Fellow”, the Association's most prestigious honor. The award consists of a certificate that will be presented to the following individuals during the Opening and Awards Ceremony at EUSIPCO 2021, which will be held in Dublin (Ireland) from the 23th to the 27th of August 2021.

Prof. Mérouane Debbah (Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Laboratory, Huawei France R&D, and CentraleSupelec, France) for contributions to the theory and design of wireless networks.

Prof. Mario Figueiredo (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) for contributions to optimization algorithms for sparsity-based and wavelet-based signal processing.

Prof. Walter Kellermann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) for contributions to the theory and practice of acoustic signal processing.

Prof. Jean-Philippe Thiran (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) for contributions in signal processing and medical image analysis.

contributed by Patrick Naylor, EURASIP President 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 Director for Technical Programs and Membership, 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 (subject to changes due to corona virus) Date Location
4th SPRINGEROPEN EURASIP JIVP's Free Web conferencing Feb. 4, 2021 at 1pm CET Virtual event
IWBF 2021, 9th IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) 2021
(Paper submission deadline: Feb. 21, 2021)
May 6 - 7, 2021 Rome, Italy
EUSIPCO 2021, 29th European Signal Processing Conference
(Paper submission deadline: Feb. 12, 2021)
Aug. 23 - 27, 2021 Dublin, Ireland
ISWCS 2021, 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
(Paper submission deadline: Apr. 12, 2021)
Sep. 6 - 9, 2021 Berlin, Germany
contributed by Jean-Yves Tourneret, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership back to top
EURASIP Seasonal Schools

The EURASIP BoD welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of seasonal schools. For more information, click here.
Name & Link (subject to changes due to corona virus) Date Location
UDRC-EURASIP Summer School 2021 Jun. 28 - Jul. 1, 2021 Edinburgh, UK
IEEE - EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing 2020 Postponed to 2021 (TBA) Ponza, Italy
Harmonic and Multifractal Analyses: From Mathematics to Quantitative Neurosciences Postponed to 2022 (TBA) Montréal, Canada
Reports of past EURASIP Seasonal Schools can be found on the Seasonal Schools webpage.
contributed by Jean-Yves Tourneret, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership back to top
Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
If you are interested in organizing a special issue in one of the EURASIP journals, please contact the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
Signal Processing: Image Communication Deadline
Explainable AI on Emerging Multimedia Technologies
Feb. 1, 2021
Speech Communication Deadline
Pluricentric Languages in Speech Science and Technology Feb. 28, 2021
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
AI for Pandemics Mar. 1, 2021
Integrated Space-Ground-Sea Wireless Networks for B5G May 1, 2021
Intelligent Sensors trends in Real-time Signal Processing Jun. 15, 2021
Emerging Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Information Fusion and Its Applications for Massive RF Data in Smart Environments Jul. 1, 2021
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
AI enabled Virtual - Wireless Personal Communications: Recent Challenges and its Avenues Feb. 5, 2021
Future of Wireless Access for Industrial IoT (FutureIIOT): enabling Industry 4.0 revolution Apr. 15, 2021
Evolutional Trends of Intelligent IoT in 5G Era Apr. 30, 2021
Advances Industrial Mobile Communications Over Edge Computing: Challenges and Emerging Applications Sep. 15, 2021
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Deadline
Data-Based Spatial Audio Processing Mar. 31, 2021
contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
Recently Published Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
Signal Processing Issue
Robust Multi-Channel Signal Processing and Applications: On the Occasion of the 80th Birthday of Johann F. Böhme
Edited by Abdelhak Zoubir, Marius Pesavento, Mohammed Nabil El Korso, Hing Cheung So, Xue Jiang
Jan. 2021
Statistical Signal Processing Solutions and Advances for Data Science: Complex, Dynamic and Large-scale Settings
Edited by Esa Ollila, Michael Muma, Frederic Pascal
May 2021
contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
Recently submitted Ph.D. Theses in EURASIP Library
Author Title & Link University Supervisors Publication Year
Spicher, Nicolai Time-frequency analysis of optical and electrical cardiac signals with applications in ultra-high-field MRI University of Duisburg-Essen Mark E. Ladd 2020
Ali, Randall Multi-microphone speech enhancement: An integration of a priori and data-dependent spatial information KU Leuven Marc Moonen, Toon van Waterschoot 2020
contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor 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
Junior professor in reinforcement learning KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Mar. 8, 2021
contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
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