Distinguished Lecturers

Prof. Chellappa has published over 30 book chapters, 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and 220 conference papers. Several of his journal papers have been reproduced in Collected Works published by IEEE Press, IEEE Computer Society Press and MIT Press. He has edited a collection of papers on Digital Image Processing, which was published by IEEE Computer Society Press, co-authored a research monograph on Artificial Neural Networks for Computer Vision with Y.T. Zhou (Springer Verlag, 1988), co-edited a book on Markov Random Fields with A.K. Jain (Academic Press, 1993), co-authored a research monograph on Recognition of Humans and Their Activities Using Video with Roy Chowdhury and S. Zhou (Morgan Claypool, 2005), co-edited a book on Face Processing: Advanced Models and Processing with W. Zhao (Academic Press, 2006), co-authored a research monograph on Unconstrained Face Recognition with S. Zhou (Springer, 2006), and Human Identification Based on Gait with M. Nixon and T. Tan (Springer, 2006).

Prof. Chellappa has been involved in numerous professional society activities, including: SPS Board of Governors (1996-98); SPS Vice President-Awards and Membership (2002-04); Member, SPS Technical Committees: Very Large Scale Integration for Signal Processing (VLSI) (1984-88), Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP) (1993-94), Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) (1986-88, 1993-97), Chair (1994-95), and Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) (1996-01); Member, Computer Society Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Technical Committee; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1987-89), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1993-95), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2001-04); co-Editor-in-Chief, Graphical Models and Image Processing (Academic Press); General Chair, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1989), NSF Workshop on MRF's (1989), AI and Computer Vision Conference (1989), and International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) (2003); General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (2008); Technical Program Chair, ICIP (1995); Technical Co-Chair, Conference on Audio-Video Based Person Authentication (1999), SPS Workshop on Neural Networks and Signal Processing (1993), Computer Society Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (2002), Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2004); and Tutorial Co-Chair, the first ICME (2000).

Prof. Chellappa is a Fellow of the IEEE and the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He has received several awards including an NSF PYI Award (1985), IBM Faculty Development Awards (1985, 2006 and 2007), the Excellence in Teaching Award (1991), School of Engineering at USC, co-author of two paper awards (Best Industry Related Paper, 1992 and the Best Student Paper in Computer Vision Track, 2006), International Association of Pattern Recognition, and SPS Technical Achievement Award in 2001. He was elected as a Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow (1996-98), Distinguished Scholar-Teacher (2003), University of Maryland. He is a co-recipient of the Outstanding Innovator Award (2007) from the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Maryland and received the A.J. Clark School of Engineering Faculty Outstanding Research Award (2007).

Rama Chellappa
University of Maryland
Room 4411, A.V. Williams Building
115 Paint Branch Drive
College Park, MD 20742
USA
P: +1 301 405-3656
F: +1 301 314-9115
E: rama@cfar.umd.edu

Renato De Mori (F) received a doctorate degree in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 1967. He has been Professor and Chairman at the University of Turin, Italy and McGill University and School of Computer Science, Montreal, Canada. He is currently Professor at the University of Avignon, France and Scientific Leader of the LUNA European Project (2006-09).

Prof. De Mori is the author/editor of four books and has published more than 100 scientific papers in many international journals. His major contributions have been in the areas of Automatic Speech Recognition, Computer Arithmetic, Software Engineering and Human-Machine Interfaces.

Prof. De Mori is a Fellow of the IEEE; Chief Editor, Elsevier Speech Communication (2003-05) and Editorial Board Member since 1982; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1988-92); Editorial Board Member, Elsevier Computer Speech and Language (1988-present), Computational Intelligence (1990-02), Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters (1980-04), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1979-89); Member, Executive Advisory Board, IBM Toronto Lab; Scientific Advisor, France Telecom R&D; Chairman, Computer and Information Systems Committee, Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada; Vice-President, R&D Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montreal; Member, IEEE SPS Speech Technical Committee (1984-87 and 2003-05), Interdisciplinary Board, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and Interdisciplinary Committee for Canadian Chairs.

Renato De Mori
University of Avignon
LIA - CERI
339 chemin des Meinajaries
BP1228
84911 AVIGNON Cedex 9
France
P: (33/0) 4 90 84 35 15
F: (33/0) 4 90 84 35 01
E: renato.demori@univ-avignon.fr

Petar M. Djuric (F) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, in 1981 and 1986, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island (1990).

From 1981 to 1986, Prof. Djuric was a Research Associate with the Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Vinca, Belgrade. Since 1990, he has been with Stony Brook University, where he is Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the area of statistical signal processing, and his primary interests are in the theory of modeling, detection, estimation, and time series analysis and its application to a wide variety of disciplines including wireless communications and biomedicine.

Prof. Djuric has served on numerous technical committees for the IEEE and has been invited to lecture at universities in the United States and overseas. His SPS activities include: Vice President-Finance (2006-09); Area Editor of Special Issues, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2002-05); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1994-96 and 2003-05); Chair, SPS Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (2005-06); and Treasurer, SPS Conference Board (2001-03). He is an Editorial Board Member, IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal Processing, Elsevier Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier Signal Processing, and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

Prof. Djuric is an IEEE Fellow, as well as a Member of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

Petar M. Djurić
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2350
USA
P: +1 631 632-8423
F: +1 631 632-8494
E: djuric@ece.sunysb.edu

Amy R. Reibman (F) received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from Duke University in 1983, 1984, and 1987, respectively. From 1988 to 1991, she was an Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. In 1991, she joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, and became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 1995. She is currently a Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs-Research, exploring video quality assessment for network transport.

In the area of video transport over networks, her studies include ATM, wireless networks (indoor and EGPRS), and the Internet, considering error resilience and alternative source coding algorithms (scalable and multiple description video coding). She was an early pioneer in exploring ways that the video compression system and the network can interact so as to obtain overall better video quality. In recent years, she has focused on the critical problem of measuring and quantifying video quality. She is a leading innovator in measuring video quality from the vantage point of inside the network. She has also considered quality metrics for compressed video and for super-resolution image enhancement.

Dr. Reibman is co-editor, Video Transport Over Networks (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), with Ming-Ting Sun, 2000. She has written tutorial articles for the Proceedings of the IEEE, “VBR Video Transport Over Networks and Multiple Description Video Coding for Video Delivery‿. She has published over 100 journal and conference papers in the field of video signal processing and holds 14 US patents.

Dr. Reibman was elected Fellow of the IEEE for “contributions to video transport over networks‿ in 2005. In 1998, she won the IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award, for the paper “Joint Selection of Source and Channel Rate for VBR Video Transmission Under ATM Policing Constraints,‿ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, August 1997, with C.-Y. Hsu and A. Ortega. She was Technical Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (2002); Technical Co-Chair, First IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (1997); Technical Program Chair, 6th International Workshop on Packet Video (1994); and Tutorial Speaker, ICIP (1997).

Amy R. Reibman
AT&T Labs-Research, Room C-235
180 Park Avenue, P.O. Box 971
Florham Park, NY 07932-0971
USA
P: +1 973 360 8046
F: +1 973 360 8178
E: amy@research.att.com

Nikos Sidiropoulos (SM) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland (1992). He served as Assistant Professor, University of Virginia; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota; and Professor, Technical University of Crete, since 2002.

Prof. Sidiropoulos has published over 50 journal papers, 85 conference papers, five book chapters and one edited book. He has been a consultant to Globespan and General Dynamics, and has co-authored three patents. He received the U.S. NSF Young Faculty CAREER Award (1998) and the IEEE SPS Best Paper Award (2001).

Prof. Sidiropoulos’ volunteer activities include Member, Vice-Chair and Chair, SPS Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee (2000-present, 2005-06 and 2007-08, respectively); Member, SPS Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (2004-present); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2000-06) and IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2000-02); Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP) (2005); Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Sensor Array and Multi-Channel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM) (2008); General Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Channel Sensor Array Processing (CAMSAP) (2007); and on the Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2011 in Prague.

Nikos Sidiropoulos
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technical University of Crete
73100 Chania, Crete
Greece
P: +30-2821037227
F: +30-2821037542
E: nikos@telecom.tuc.gr

Tsuhan Chen (SM) has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, since October 1997, where he is a full Professor. He directs the Advanced Multimedia Processing Laboratory, striving to turn multimedia technologies from science fiction into reality. He also established and is the current Director of the ITRI Lab at CMU, a collaborative research laboratory sponsored by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). His research interests include multimedia signal processing and communication, implementation of multimedia systems, multimodal biometrics, audio-visual interaction, pattern recognition, computer vision and computer graphics. From August 1993 to October 1997, he worked in the Visual Communications Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, and later at AT&T Labs-Research, Red Bank, NJ, as a Senior Technical staff member and then a Principle Technical staff member.

Dr. Chen helped create and was founding Chair, SPS Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (1996-98) and first Co-Chair, SPS Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop (1997). His endeavors later evolved into assisting in the creation of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, both joining the efforts of multiple IEEE societies. He was appointed the Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2002-2004), during which the journal grew from about 400 pages and four issues a year, to about 1200 pages and six issues a year. He is elected as Member-at-Large, SPS Board of Governors, 2007-2009.

Before serving as the Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, he also served on the Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (1998-2002) and as Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1998-2000), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2001), and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (1998-2001). He has co-edited a book entitled, Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks.

Dr. Chen received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He received the Charles Wilts Prize for outstanding independent research in electrical engineering leading to a Ph.D. degree at the California Institute of Technology. He received the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award in recognition of excellence in engineering education at the Carnegie Mellon University. He has published more than a hundred technical papers and holds 15 U.S. patents. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award entitled, Multimodal and Multimedia Signal Processing (2000-2003). He is a Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.

Tsuhan Chen
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15090
U.S.A.
P: +1 412 268-7536
F: +1 412 268-3890
E: tsuhan@cmu.edu
http://amp.ece.cmu.edu

Georgios B. Giannakis (F) received his diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1981. From September 1982 to July 1986, he was with the University of Southern California (USC), where he received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, M.Sc. in Mathematics, 1986, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1986.

After lecturing for one year at USC, he joined the University of Virginia (UVA) in 1987, where he became a professor of Electrical Engineering (1997), Graduate Committee Chair, and Director of the Communications, Controls, and Signal Processing Laboratory (1998). He was awarded the School of Engineering and Applied Science Junior Faculty Research Award (UVA) (1988), and the UVA-EE Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (1992). Since January 1999, he has been with the ECE Department at the University of Minnesota, where he now holds an ADC Chair in Wireless Telecommunications.

His contributions span two broad areas: signal processing (e.g., non-Gaussian and non-stationary signal analysis, higher-order statistics, and applications in seismic, sonar, radar, and synthetic aperture radar processing); and digital communications (synchronization, channel estimation, spread spectrum and multi-carrier communications, fading counter-measures, diversity, spatial multiplexing and space-time coding, ultra-wideband communications, and cross-layer network design). Prof. Giannakis was instrumental in bringing signal processing and digital communications closer together, and for the offspring of this convergence within SPS: the area of signal processing for communications. In the course of about 20 years, Prof. Giannakis has written numerous award-winning and heavily cited papers on these subjects. His publication record includes over 250 refereed journal papers in the most prestigious archival journals, and about 450 conference papers. Prof. Giannakis has co-authored 24 patents, approximately half of which have been licensed for use in 3G and 4G wireless phones and upcoming wireless local area networks.

Prof. Giannakis was named an IEEE Fellow in 1997, “for contributions to system identification and statistical signal processing‿. He was awarded the SPS Technical Achievement Award, “for fundamental contributions to non-Gaussian and non-stationary signal analysis, system identification, and equalization of single- and multi-user communication systems‿ (2000). In 2005, he received the G. W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota and EURASIP’s Technical Achievement Award. Prof. Giannakis has co-authored six papers that received IEEE SPS or IEEE Communications Society Paper Awards: in 1992, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2004, which include a total of five senior, young author, and magazine best paper awards from the SPS; and the prestigious IEEE Communications Society’s G. Marconi Prize Paper Award, in 2004, for the paper (co-authored with Y. Xin and Z. Wang) that was published in the March 2003 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis
ADC Chair in Wireless Telecommunications
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota
200 Union Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
U.S.A.
P: +1 612 626 7781
F: +1 612 625 4583
E: georgios@umn.edu
http://spincom.ece.umn.edu/

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (F) received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1979 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. In 1985, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, where he is currently professor. He was the holder of the Ameritech Chair of Information Technology (1997-2003). He is also the Director of the Motorola Center for Seamless Communications and a member of the Academic Affiliate Staff, Department of Medicine, at Evanston Hospital.

Prof. Katsaggelos has extensive IEEE involvement. He is a Member, IEEE Proceedings Publication Board, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee and Editorial Board, Academic Press, Marcel Dekker: Signal Processing Series, Applied Signal Processing, Computer Journal, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, and Advances in Multimedia. He has served as Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine; Member, SPS Publications Board and IEEE TAB Magazine Committee (1997-2002); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1990-1992); Area Editor, Elsevier Graphical Models and Image Processing (1992-1995); Steering Committees Member, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1992-1997) and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (1990-1999); Member, SPS Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (1992-1998) and SPS Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (1997-2001); and Member, SPS Board of Governors (1999-2001). He is the Editor, Digital Image Restoration (Springer-Verlag 1991); co-author, Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression (Kluwer 1997); co-editor, Recovery Techniques for Image and Video Compression and Transmission (Kluwer 1998); and co-author, Super-Resolution for Images and Video (Claypool, 2006) and Joint Source-Channel Video Transmission (Claypool, 2006). He is the co-inventor of twelve international patents and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), SPS Meritorious Service Award (2001), SPS Best Paper Award (2001), and the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Paper Award (2006).

Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos
Northwestern University
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3118
P: +1 847 491 7164
F: +1 847 491 4455
E: aggk@eecs.northwestern.edu
http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~aggk/

Walter Kellermann (M) is a Professor, Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (univ.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1983, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, in 1988. From 1989 to 1990, he was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. In 1990, he joined Philips Kommunikations Industrie, Nuremberg, Germany. From 1993 to 1999, he was a Professor, Fachhochschule Regensburg, where he also became Director, Institute of Applied Research in 1997. In 1999, he co-founded DSP Solutions, a consulting firm in digital signal processing, and joined the University Erlangen-Nuremberg as a Professor and Head, Audio Research Laboratory. From 2002 to 2006, he was a Dean of Studies, Faculty of Engineering, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, overseeing organization and quality assurance of more than 500 courses per semester. He is also continuously consulting to industry in his technical field, and he acts as a consultant to governmental institutions on the national and European level regarding research and university politics.

Prof. Kellermann has authored or co-authored seven book chapters and more than 70 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has served as a guest editor for various journals, as Associate Editor (and guest editor), IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2000-2004), and presently serves as Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing and EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing. He was the General Chair, International Workshop on Microphone Arrays (2003) and the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (2005). His current research interests include speech signal processing, array signal processing, adaptive filtering, and its applications to acoustic human/machine interfaces.

Prof. Walter Kellermann
Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing
University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Cauerstr.7
91058 Erlangen, Germany
P: +49-9131-852-7669
F: +49-9131-852-8849
E: wk@LNT.de
http://www.LNT.de/~wk

Lin-Shan Lee (F) received a B.S. from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1974 and 1977, respectively. He has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of National Taiwan University since 1982. He was a Department Head, National Taiwan University (1982-1987); Director, Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica (1991-1997); and Chair, R&D Commission of National Taiwan University (2002-2005). His research interests include digital communications and spoken language processing.

Prof. Lee was the Guest Editor, Special Issue on Intelligent Signal Processing in Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, December 1994 and January 1995. He served on various Communications Society positions: Regional Chair for Asia Pacific (1994-1995); Member, Board of Governors (1994-1997); Vice President for International Affairs (1996-1997); and Awards Committee Chair (1998-1999). He was Technical Program Chair, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) (2002).

Prof. Lee developed several early versions of Chinese spoken language systems, including text-to-speech system (1984), natural language analyzer (1986), dictation systems (1991 and 1993 for isolated syllable input, 1995 for continuous speech input), spoken document retrieval system (1997), and spoken dialogue system (1998). His work in recent years in this area focused on spoken language processing technologies for network content access, including user interface on the one hand and content analysis on the other hand. The former ranges from robust speech recognition to spoken dialogues, the latter covers spoken document understanding and organization, while spoken document retrieval integrates both. He has been a Member, Permanent Council of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP, currently ICSLP and EUROSPEECH are jointly known as Interspeech) since 1994. He was elected as a Board Member, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) since 2001. He will be the General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2009 in Taipei.

Dr. Lee was elected IEEE Fellow in 1992, "for contributions to computer voice input/output techniques for mandarin chinese and engineering education". He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Computer Society (1995-1996) presenting lectures on computer processing of spoken languages. He is recipient of the National Chair Professorship of Taiwan, Republic of China (2004).

Lin-shan Lee
National Taiwan University
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, EECS-2-520
Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
P: +886-2-3366-3547
F: +886-2-23683824
E: lslee@gate.sinica.edu.tw