Plenary Speakers
Prof. David ALLSTOT -- Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California David J. Allstot received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Univ. of Portland, Oregon State Univ., and the Univ. of California, Berkeley. He has held several industrial and academic positions including the Boeing-Egtvedt Chair Professor of Engineering at the Univ. of Washington from 1999 to 2012 and Chair of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering from 2004 to 2007. In 2012 he was a Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and in 2013 he joined UC Berkeley as the MacKay Professor in Residence and Executive Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. Dr. Allstot has advised approximately 60 M.S. and 40 Ph.D. graduates, published more than 300 papers, and received several awards for outstanding teaching and graduate advising as well as research awards including the 1980 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award, 1995 and 2010 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Darlington Award, 1998 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Beatrice Winner Award, 1999 IEEE CASS Golden Jubilee Medal, 2004 IEEE CASS Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, 2005 Semiconductor Research Corp. Aristotle Award, 2008 Semiconductor Industries Assoc. University Research Award, and 2011 IEEE CASS Mac Van Valkenburg Award. He has been active in the IEEE Circuits and Systems and Solid-State Circuits Societies. For more information, see http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/allstot.html |
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Prof. Guoan BI -- School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Guoan Bi received the B.Sc. degree in radio communications from Dalian University of Technology, China in 1982, and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication systems, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics systems, both from the Essex University, U.K., in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He then worked at the University of Surrey, UK, as a research staff from 1988 to 1991. Since 1991, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where he is currently an associate Professor. His research interests include DSP algorithms and hardware structures, and signal processing for various applications including Sonar, Radar and wireless communications. For more information, see http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=EGBI |
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André Kaup received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. From 1989 to 1995, he was with the Institute for Communication Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, where he was responsible for industrial as well as academic research projects in the area of high resolution printed image compression, object-based image analysis and coding, and models for human perception. In 1995, he joined the Networks and Multimedia Communications Department, Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany. In 1999, he was appointed the Head of the Mobile Applications and Services Group in the same department. Since 2001, he has been a Full Professor and the Head of the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. From 1997 to 2001, he was the Head of the German MPEG delegation, and from 1998 to 2001 he also served as Adjunct Professor with the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Vice Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 603 Modeling and Analysis of Complex Scenes and Sensor Data. André Kaup is a Voting Member of the IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, member of the German ITG, and Fellow of the IEEE. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and was a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He was elected Siemens Inventor of the year 1998 and was the recipient of the 1999 ITG Award. He received Best Paper Awards at the IEEE International Workshops on Multimedia Signal Processing in 2009, 2011, and 2012, and the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services in 2010. For more information, see http://www.lms.lnt.de/en/people/staff/andre-kaup.php |
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Dr. Henrique MALVAR -- Chief Scientist and Distinguished Engineer of Microsoft Research, Redmond WA, USA Henrique Malvar is the Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research (MSR), overseeing cross-lab collaborative projects, as well as the Advanced Technology Labs (ATL). Before taking on his current Chief Scientist role, Rico was the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Redmond, and before that he was a Principal Researcher and founder of the Signal Processing research group at MSR. He is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He is an Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, where he also chairs the UWEE Advisory Board. He is also a member of advisory boards at MIT (LIDS) and EPFL (IC). He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (ACHA), Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, and APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing; he was a past member of the Signal Processing Theory and Method technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member and a past associate editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT in 1986, a M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE-UFRJ) in 1979, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Universidade de Brasília in 1977. For more information, see http://research.microsoft.com/~malvar |
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Prof. Yoshikazu MIYANAGA -- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Japan He received the B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1979, 1981, and 1986, respectively. Since 1983 he has been with Hokkaido University. He is now Professor, Hokkaido University. From 1984 to 1985, he was a visiting researcher at Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA. His research interests are in the areas of speech signal processing, wireless communication signal processing and low-power consumption VLSI system design. He has published 3 books, over 140 Transaction/Journal papers, and more than 250 International Conference/Symposium/Workshop papers. Dr. Miyanaga is an associate editor of IEEE CAS Society Transaction on Circuits and Systems II (2012-present), and also an associate editor of Journal of Signal Processing, RISP Japan (2005-present). He was a chair of Technical Group on Smart Info-Media System, IEICE (IEICE TG-SIS) from 2004 to 2006 and now a member of the advisory committee, IEICE TG-SIS. He was vice-President, IEICE Engineering Science (ES) Society from 2010 to 2011. He is Fellow member of IEICE. He is also vice-President, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of Board of Governor, IEEE CAS Society from 2011 to 2013. For more information, see http://www.gcoe.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/arts/english/member/research09.html |
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Prof. Alessandro NERI -- Applied Electronics Department, L'Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy Alessandro Neri is full professor in Telecommunications. In 1977 he received the Doctoral Degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". In 1978 he joined the Research and Development Department of Contraves Italiana S.p.A. where he gained a specific expertise in the field of radar signal processing and in applied detection and estimation theory, becoming the chief of the advanced systems group. In 1987 he joined the INFOCOM Department of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" as Associate Professor in Signal and Information Theory at the Engineering Faculty. In November 1992 he joined the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Roma TRE as Associate Professor in Electrical Communications, and became full professor in Telecommunications in semptember 2001. He is currently teaching Digital Communications, Information Theory, and Mobile Telecommunication Systems (Laurea Magistralis on Communication and Information Technologies), at the Engineering Faculty of Roma TRE. Since 1992 he is responsible for coordination and management of research and teaching activities in the Telecommunication fields at the University of Roma TRE, currently leading the Digital Signal Processing, Multimedia & Optical Communications at the Applied Electronics Department. His research activity has mainly been focused on information theory, signal theory, and signal and image processing and their applications to both telecommunications systems and remote sensing. Professor Neri is member of the working group of the IEEE Educational Activities Board for global accreditation activities on Biometrics. Prof. Neri is member of the scientifc Committee on ANSSAIF, an Italian Society of experts on security of financial and banking systems. Prof. Neri has been a member of the Managing Committee of CNIT. Since december 2008, prof. Neri is the Presidente of the RadioLabs Consortium (Consorzio Università Industria – Laboratori di Radiocomunicazioni), a non-profit Consortium created in 2001 to promote tight cooperation on applied research programs between universities and industries. For more information, see http://www.comlab.uniroma3.it/neri.htm |
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Prof. Erchin SERPEDIN -- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA Erchin Serpedin is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. He is the author of 2 research monographs, 1 edited textbook, 8 book chapters, 90 journal papers and 150 conference papers. Prof. Erchin Serpedin has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wieless Communications, Signal Processing (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. His research interests include statistical signal processing, information theory, bioinformatics, and genomics. He is an IEEE Fellow. For more information, see http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~serpedin/ |
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Prof. Julius O. SMITH -- Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Music Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California Julius O. Smith teaches a music signal-processing course sequence and supervises related research at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He is formally a professor of music and (by courtesy) electrical engineering at Stanford University. In 1975, he received his BS/EE degree from Rice University in Circuits, Communication, and Control. In 1983, he received the PhD/EE degree from Stanford University, specializing in digital filter design and system identification with application to violin modeling. His work history includes the Signal Processing Department at Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc., working on systems for digital communications, the Adaptive Systems Department at Systems Control Technology, Inc., working on research problems in adaptive filtering and spectral estimation, and NeXT Computer, Inc., where he was responsible for sound, music, and signal processing software for the NeXT computer workstation. Prof. Smith is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and the Acoustical Society of America. He is the author of four online books and various research publications in his field. For more information, see http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ |
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Prof. Wonyong SUNG -- Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea Wonyong Sung received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1987. He has been a member of the faculty of the Seoul National University since 1989 where he is presently a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. His main research interest is efficient implementation of signal processing algorithms, including fixed-point optimization and parallel processing. He is also interested in speech processing and error correction of NAND flash memory. From 1980 to 1983, he worked at the Central Research Laboratory of the Gold Star (currently LG electronics) in Korea. From May of 1993 to June of 1994, he consulted the Alta Group for the development of the Fixed Point Optimizer, automatic word-length determination software. Dr. Sung served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II from 2000 to 2001, the Chair of the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee (DiSPS TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2010 to 2011, and the General Chair of the 2003 SiPS (Signal Processing Systems) Workshop held at Seoul, Korea. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. For more information, see http://kdd.snu.ac.kr/~shim |
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Prof. Ioan TĂBUȘ -- Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland Ioan Tabuș received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1982 from the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania, and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland, in 1995. He held teaching positions in the Department of Control and Computers, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest from 1984 to 1995. From 1996 he was a Senior Researcher and since January 2000, he has been a Professor in the Department of Signal Processing at TUT. His research interests are in image, audio, and data compression, image processing, and genomic signal processing. He is coauthor of two books and more than 210 publications in the fields of signal compression, image processing, bioinformatics, and system identification. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and for the Signal Processing of EURASIP. He has served as a guest editor of special issues for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, for Signal Processing of EURASIP, and for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from 2006 to 2014. Dr. Taboos is the co-recipient of 1991 "Train Via" Award of Romania, the 2001 NSIP Best Paper Award, and the 2004 NORSIG Best Paper Award. For more information, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tabus/ |
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