Fellows/Programs
32 SPS Members Elevated to Fellow in 2008
Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to one-tenth percent of the members. To qualify for consideration, an individual must have been a Member, normally for five years or more, and a Senior Member at the time for nomination to Fellow. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in IEEE’s designated fields.
The Signal Processing Society congratulates the following 32 SPS members who were recognized with the grade of Fellow as of 1 January 2008:
Ali Akansu, Middletown, NJ: For contributions to optimal design of transforms and filter banks for communications and multimedia security.
Naofal Al Dhahir, Richardson, TX: For contributions to high data rate communications through broadband channels.
John Apostolopoulos, Palo Alto, CA: For contributions to the principles and practice of video communications and secure media streaming.
Mourad Barkat, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: For contributions to adaptive thresholding radar signal detection.
Pau-Choo Chung, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC: For contributions to neural network models for biomedical image analyses.
Pamela Cosman, La Jolla, CA: For contributions to image and video compression and wireless communications.
Paul Ebert, Potomac, MD: For contributions to the standard international aircraft collision avoidance system.
Ling Guan, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: For contributions to image and multimedia signal processing.
Christian Jutten, Grenoble, France: For contributions in source separation and independent component analysis.
Walter Kellermann, Erlangen, Germany: For contributions to adaptive filtering and multi-channel acoustic signal processing.
Janusz Konrad, Boston, MA: For contributions to motion estimation and stereoscopic imaging.
Hamid Krim, Raleigh, NC: For contributions to statistical signal processing, multiscale analysis, estimation and detection, and image analysis.
Pai-Chi Li, Seattle, WA: For contributions to ultrasonic imaging technologies.
Nam Ling, Santa Clara, CA: For contributions to video coding algorithms and architectures.
Philippe Loubaton, Marne la Vallée, France: For contributions to blind channel identification in communication systems.
Benoit Macq, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium: For contributions to visual communication technologies.
Vijay Madisetti, Atlanta, GA: For contributions to embedded computing systems.
William Melvin, Marietta, GA: For contributions to adaptive signal processing methods in radar systems.
Peter Mikhalevsky, Arlington, VA: For contributions to ocean acoustics and tomography.
Karen Panetta, Rockport, MA: For leadership in engineering education and curriculum development to attract, retain, and advance women in engineering.
Fernando Pereira, Lisbon, Portugal: For contributions to object-based digital video representation technologies and standards.
Athina Petropulu, Philadelphia, PA: For contributions to signal processing for communications, networking and ultrasound imaging.
Markku Renfors, Tampere, Finland: For contributions to digital signal processing algorithms.
Massimo Rudan, Bologna, Italy: For contributions to theory and modeling of current transport in semiconductor devices.
Ananthram Swami, Adelphi, MD: For contributions to statistical signal processing in communication systems and networks.
Sergios Theodoridis, Athens, Greece: For contributions to the design of adaptive signal processing systems.
Charles Therrien, Monterey, CA: For contributions to signal processing theory, practice and education.
Paul Van Den Hof, Delft, The Netherlands: For contribution to system identification for control systems.
Xiaodong Wang, New York, NY: For contributions to signal processing for wireless communications.
En-Hui Yang, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: For contributions to source coding.
Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA: For contributions to broadband wireless transmission and networking technology.
Abdelhak Zoubir, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany: For contributions to statistical signal processing.
Two individuals were evaluated by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, but are not Society members. They are:
Abeer Alwan, Los Angeles, CA: For contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their applications.
Guanghan Xu, Garland, TX: For contributions to signal processing algorithms for commercial wireless systems.