Brief Bio - Sofiène Affes (S’94, M95, SM04) received the Diplôme d'Ingénieur in telecommunications in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree with honors in signal processing in 1995, both from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France.

He has been since with INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, as a Research Associate from 1995 till 1997, as an Assistant Professor till 2000, then as an Associate Professor till 2009. Currently he is a Full Professor in the Wireless Communications Group. His research interests are in wireless communications, statistical signal and array processing, adaptive space-time processing and MIMO. From 1998 to 2002 he has been leading the radio design and signal processing activities of the Bell/Nortel/NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Personal Communications at INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada. Since 2004, he has been actively involved in major projects in wireless of PROMPT (Partnerships for Research on Microelectronics, Photonics and Telecommunications), a university-industry research consortium.

Professor Affes was the co-recipient of the 2002 Prize for Research Excellence of INRS. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communications and a Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award from NSERC (Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada). In 2006, Professor Affes served as a General Co-Chair of the IEEE VTC’2006-Fall conference, Montreal, Canada. In 2008, he received from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society the IEEE VTC Chair Recognition Award for exemplary contributions to the success of IEEE VTC. He currently acts as a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and of the Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing.

Brief Bio - Thierry Blu (M'96-SM'06) was born in Orleans, France, in 1964. He received the "Diplome d'ingenieur" from Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 1986 and from Telecom Paris (ENST), France, in 1988. In 1996, he obtained a PhD in electrical engineering from ENST for a study on iterated rational filterbanks, applied to wideband audio coding. Between 1998 and 2007, he was with the Biomedical Imaging Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is now a Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Blu was the recipient of two best paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2003 and 2006). Between 2002 and 2006, he has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and since 2006, for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Research interests: (multi)wavelets, multiresolution analysis, multirate filterbanks, interpolation, approximation and sampling theory, image denoising, psychoacoustics, optics, wave propagation.

Brief Bio - Maja Bystrom (SM'09) received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From 1997-2002 she was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. From 2002-2009 she was an Associate Professor at Boston University. She is currently President of Styrka Consulting.

In 1999 she received an NSF CAREER award and in 2001 a Fulbright Award. In additional to serving on numerous technical program committees, she was Publications Chair for the 2005 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, on the Workshop Committee of the 2003 International Microwave Symposium, and served on a peer review panel for the Fulbright Program from 2004-2006. From 2004-2008 she was an Associate Editor for Signal Processing Letters and she is currently a member of the IEEE Expert Now Editorial Board. Her research interests lie in the areas of multimedia communications, reconfigurable systems, and multidimensional data processing.

B.S. Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (1991). B.S. Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (1991)

Positions Held: 1997-2002: Assistent Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
1995: Visiting Scholar, German Aerospace Research Corp. (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
1992-1997 Research Assistant, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1991-1992 Computer Engineer, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Brief Bio - Andrea Cavallaro is Reader (Associate Professor) in Multimedia Signal Processing and Director of UG Studies for Electronic Engineering at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), UK. He received the Laurea (Summa cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Trieste, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2002. Andrea was a Research Fellow with British Telecommunications (BT) in 2004/2005 and was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering teaching Prize in 2007. He is co-author of two papers on target tracking winner of the student paper contest at the IEEE ICASSP in 2005 and 2007. He served as General Chair for IEEE/ACM ICDSC 2009, BMVC 2009; M2SFA2 2008, SSPE 2007, and IEEE AVSS 2007. Andrea was Technical Program chair of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008); he is a steering committee member for IEEE AVSS and has been a member of the organizing/technical committee of several conferences, including IEEE ICME, IEEE ICIP, SPIE VCIP, ACM Multimedia, IEEE AVSS, ACM/IEEE ICDSC, ECCV-VS, PETS. He has acted as expert evaluator for the National Research Agency (ANR), France; the European Commission; the EPSRC, UK; Microsoft Research, UK; the National Science Foundation, USA; and the National Science Foundation, Switzerland. Andrea has authored more than 90 papers, including 7 book chapters. More info can be found at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/andrea.

Brief Bio - Biao Chen received the M.S. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1998 and 1999, respectively, from the University of Connecticut. From 1999 to 2000 he was with Cornell University as a Post-Doc associate. Since 2000, he has been with Syracuse University which he is currently an Assistant Professor. He served as an associate editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2005-2008). He is an associate editor for the IEEE Communications Letters and a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Sensor Array and Multi-Channel (SAM) Technical Committee. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2006. His research interests include signal processing, communication and information theory for multi-user wireless systems.

Focus:Sensor arrays, multi-user wireless systems

Brief Bio - Philippe Ciblat was born in Paris, France, in 1973. He received the Engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST) and the DEA degree (french equivalent to the M.Sc. degree) in automatic control and signal processing from the Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, both in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree from Universite de Marne-la-Vallee, France, in 2000. He eventually receive the HDR degree from Universite de Marne-la-Vallee, France, in 2007. In 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. At the end of 2001, he joined the Departement de Communications et Electronique at ENST, Paris, France, as an Associate Professor. His research areas include statistical and digital signal processing (blind equalization, frequency estimation, and asymptotic performance analysis) and signal processing for digital communications (synchronization for OFDM modulations and the CDMA scheme, access technique and localization for UWB, cooperative communications and global systems design). From 2004 to 2007, he served as Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters.

Focus:Signal processing for communications

Brief Bio - Mark Coates received the B.E. degree (first class honours) in computer systems engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Cambridge, U.K., in 1999. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He was awarded the Texas Instruments Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1999 and was a research associate and lecturer at Rice University, Texas, from 1999-2001. His research interests include communication and sensor/actuator networks, statistical signal processing, causal analysis, and Bayesian and Monte Carlo inference.

Focus:Statistical signal processing, communication

Brief Bio - Huaiyu Dai received the B.E. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ in November, 2002.

He was with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ, in the summer of 2000, and with AT&T Labs-Research, Middletown, NJ, in the summer of 2001. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University, Raleigh. His research interests are in the general areas of communication systems and networks, advanced signal processing for digital communications, and communication theory and information theory.

He serves as editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He has co-edited two special issues for EURASIP journals on distributed signal processing techniques for wireless sensor networks, and on multiuser information theory and related applications, respectively.

Brief Bio - Lieven De Lathauwer obtained the Master's degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 2000 I was a post-doctoral researcher with the research group SCD-SISTA. From 2000 to 2007 I had a permanent research position with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, research group CNRS-ETIS. Since September 2007 I am Associate Professor with the K.U.Leuven. I am affiliated with both the Group Science, Engineering and Technology of Campus Kortrijk and with the group SCD-SISTA of the Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT). I am Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

Focus: Signal processing based on multilinear algebra.

Brief Bio - Subhrakanti Dey (M'96) was born in Calcutta, India, in 1968. He received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 1996. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, since February 2000, first as a Senior Lecturer, and then as an Associate Professor. From September 1995 to September 1997 and September 1998 to February 2000, he was a postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University. From September 1997 to September 1998, he was a post-doctoral Research Associate with the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park. His current research interests include signal processing for telecommunications, wireless communications and networks, performance analysis of communication networks, stochastic and adaptive estimation and control, and statistical and adaptive signal processing.

Focus: Signal processing for communication, statistical signal processing

Brief Bio - Konstantinos Diamantaras was born in Athens, Greece, in 1965. He received the Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1992. Subsequently, he joined Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and then the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1998, he is with the Department of Informatics, Technological Education Institute (T.E.I.) of Thessaloniki, where he currently holds the position of Professor. His research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and image processing.

He is the author of 4 book chapters, 30 journal papers, and more than 60 conference papers in the areas of signal processing, neural networks and image processing. He is co-author of the book "Principal Component Neural Networks: Theory and Applications", (New York: Wiley, 1996). He is currently the chairman of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He also serves as editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the Journal of Signal Processing Systems (Springer). In 1997, he was co-recipient of the IEEE Best Paper Award in the area of Neural Networks for Signal Processing for the paper "Adaptive Principal Component Extraction (APEX) and Applications", (IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, May 1994). He has served as technical committee member for various signal processing and neural networks conferences and was the general chairman of the 17th IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in August 2007. In the past, he has also served as member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (SPTM-TC) and as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

Brief Bio - Aleksandar Dogandzic received the Dipl. Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In August 2001, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Dogandzic received the 2003 Young Author Best Paper Award and 2004 Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, both by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. In 2006, he received the CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation. At ISU, he was awarded the 2006-2007 Litton Industries Assistant Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Focus: Statistical signal processing, distributed signal processing for sensor networks, sparse signal reconstruction, signal processing for comunications.

Brief Bio - Bogdan Dumitrescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1962. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1987 and 1993, respectively, from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is now a Professor with the Department of Automatic Control and Computers, Politehnica University of Bucharest. He held visiting research positions at Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble, France (1992, 1994, 1996) and Tampere International Center for Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland (since 1999). He is the author of the book Positive trigonometric polynomials and signal processing applications. His scientific interests are in optimization, numerical methods, and their applications to signal processing.

Focus: Filter design, convex optimization, filter banks and wavelets

Brief Bio - Alper T. Erdogan (M’00) was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1971. He received the B.S. degree from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He was a Principal Research Engineer in Globespan-Virata Corporation (formerly Excess Bandwidth and Virata Corporations) from September 1999 to November 2001. He joined Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, in January 2002, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His current research interests include wireless, fiber and wireline communications, adaptive signal processing, optimization, system theory and control, and information theory. Dr. Erdogan is the recipient of TUBITAK Career Award in 2005, Werner Von Siemens Excellence Award in 2007, and TUBA GEBIP Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2008.

Focus: Adaptive Signal Processing, Signal Processing For Communications, Source Separation

Brief Bio - Deniz Erdogmus graduated with B.S. in EE and the B.S. in Mathematics in 1997, and M.S. in EE in 1999 from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Florida in 2002, where he stayed as a postdoctoral research associate until 2004. Prior to joining the Northeastern faculty in 2008, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of ECE, he held an Assistant Professor position jointly at the CSEE and BME departments of the Oregon Health and Science University. His expertise is in information theoretic and nonparametric machine learning and adaptive signal processing, specifically focusing on cognitive signal processing including brain interfaces and technologies that collaboratively improve human performance in a variety of tasks. Deniz has been serving as an associate editor of IEEE’s Transactions on Signal Processing, Transactions on Neural Networks, Signal Processing Letters, Elsevier’s Neurocomputing, Neural Processing Letters, and Hindawi’s Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. He is a member of the IEEE-SPS Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of TBP and HKN.

Focus: Machine Learning

Brief Bio - Patrick Flandrin (Fellow 2002) was born in Bron, France, in 1955. He received the Engineer degree from Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielles de Lyon in 1978, the "Docteur-Ingenieur" degree and the "Doctorat d'Etat es Sciences Physiques" from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1982, where he is currently a senior researcher. Until 1990, he was with ICPI Lyon, where he has been Head of the Signal Processing Department from 1987 to 1990. Since 1991, he has been with the Physics Department at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, in charge of the group "Signals, Systems and Physics" until 2004. In 1998, he spent one semester in Cambridge, UK, as an invited long-term resident of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences and, from 2002 to 2005, he has been Director of the CNRS (nation-wide) cooperative structure "GdR Information, Signaux, Images et Vision." His research interests include mainly nonstationary signal processing at large (with emphasis on time-frequency and time-scale methods) and the study of scaling processes. Dr. Flandrin was awarded the Philip Morris Scientific Prize in Mathematics in 1991, the SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award in 2001 and the Prix Michel Monpetit from the French Academy of Sciences in 2001.

Focus: Time-frequency analysis, nonstationary random processes

Brief Bio - Brief Bio ¨C Xiqi Gao received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1997. He joined the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, in April 1992. Now he is a professor of information systems and communications. From September 1999 to August 2000, he was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and Boston University, Boston, MA. From August 2007 to July 2008, he visited the Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, as a Humboldt scholar. His current research interests include broadband multicarrier communications, MIMO wireless communications, channel estimation and turbo equalization, and multirate signal processing for wireless communications. He serves as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Dr. Gao received the Science and Technology Progress Awards of the State Education Ministry of China in 1998 and 2006.

Brief Bio - Alex Gershman received Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Radiophysics and Electronics from the Nizhny Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1984 and 1990, respectively. From April 2005, he has been with the Darmstadt University of Technology, as a Professor and Head of the Communication Systems Group (FG Nachrichtentechnische Systeme).

His research interests span the areas of signal processing and wireless communications, with primary emphasis on spatial diversity in MIMO communications and space-time coding, multiuser/multiantenna communications, statistical signal and array processing, robust adaptive beamforming, parameter estimation and detection, spectral analysis, and physics-based signal processing for sonar, radar, and seismology.

He has (co-)authored 7 book chapters, some 110 journal papers and some 180 referred conference papers on these subjects.

- Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2006-2008)
- AE, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1999-2005)
- Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Book Series in Signal Processing and Communications (2006-2007)
- Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and EURASIP Signal Processing Journal.
- Fellow of IEEE (effective January 2006) "for contributions to adaptive beamforming and sensor array processing".
- 2006 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society M.Barry Carlton Best Paper Award for the 2004 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems paper co-authored by G.A. Fabrizio and M.D. Turley.
- 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award for the 2003 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing paper co-authored by S.A. Vorobyov, and Z.-Q.Luo.
- 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for the 2002 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing paper co-authored by M. Pesavento and K.M. Wong.

Focus: statistical signal processing

Brief Bio - Ali Ghrayeb received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2000.

He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University,Montreal, QC, Canada. He holds a Concordia University Research Chair in High-Speed Wireless Communications. He is the coauthor of the book Coding for MIMO Communication Systems (Wiley, 2008). His research interests include wireless and mobile communications, error correcting coding, MIMO systems, wireless cooperative networks, cognitive radio, and CDMA systems.

Dr. Ghrayeb has co-instructed technical tutorials on Coding for MIMO Systems and on Synchronization for WCDMA Systems at several major IEEE conferences, including the Global Telecommunications Conference and the International Conference on Communications. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He served as an Associate Editor of the Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal from 2004-2008.

Brief Bio - Maria S. Greco graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1993 and received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 1998, from University of Pisa, Italy. From December 1997 to May 1998 she joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, USA as a visiting research scholar where she carried on research activity in the field of radar detection in non-Gaussian background.

In 1993 she joined the Department of "Ingegneria dell’Informazione" of the University of Pisa, where now she is Assistant Professor since April 2001. She is IEEE Senior Member since June 2004 and she was co-recipient of the 2001 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Barry Carlton Award for Best Paper and recipient of the 2008 Fred Nathanson Young Engineer of the Year award for contributions to signal processing, estimation, and detection theory. She has been co-general-chair of the 2007 International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference (WDD07), Pisa, Italy, in the Technical Committee of the 2006 EURASIP Signal and Image Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, in the Technical Committee of the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference, Rome, Italy, and she is in the Organizing Committee of the CAMSAP09 and Technical co-chair of CIP2010. She was guest co-editor of the special issue of the Journal of the IEEE Signal Processing Society on Special Topics in Signal Processing on "Adaptive Waveform Design for Agile Sensing and Communication," published in June 2007 and s lead guest editor of the special issue of International Journal of Navigation and Observation on” Modelling and Processing of Radar Signals for Earth Observation published in August 2008. She’s Associate Editor of IET Proceedings – Sonar, Radar and Navigation, member of the Editorial Board of the Hindawi Journal of Advances in Signal processing (JASP) and member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee.

She is a coauthor of the tutorials entitled "Radar Clutter Modeling", presented at the International Radar Conference (May 2005, Arlington) and "Sea and Ground Radar Clutter Modeling" presented at 2008 IEEE Radar Conference (May 2008, Rome, Italy). Her general interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing, estimation and detection theory. In particular, her research interests include clutter models, spectral analysis, coherent and incoherent detection in non-Gaussian clutter, CFAR techniques, radar waveform diversity and MIMO radar. She co-authored two book chapters, more than 90 journal and conference papers.

Brief Bio - Warren Gross received the B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 1996, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a Visiting Professor at the Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France. He is a member of the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and served as the General Chair of the 6th Annual Analog Decoding Workshop. His research interests are in the design and implementation of signal processing systems and custom computer architectures.

Brief Bio - Walid Hachem was born in Bhamdoun, Lebanon, in 1967. He received the Engineering degree in Telecommunications from St Joseph University (ESIB), Beirut, Lebanon, in 1989, the Masters degree in signal processing from Télécom Paris (ENST), France, in 1990, the PhD degree in signal processing from Université de Marne-La-Vallée, France, in 2000 and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay), in 2006. He was with Philips T.R.T., working on telephone modems, and then joined FERMA, working on DSP processing for voice servers. In 2001, he joined Ecole Supérieure d\\\'Electricité (Supélec) as an assistant then associate professor. He is currently a CNRS researcher at ENST. His research interests concern the asymptotic analysis of multiuser systems based on the study of large random matrices, channel estimation and synchronization for multicarrier systems, and cooperative radio networks.

Focus: Signal Processing for Communications

Brief Bio - Alfred Hanssen received the Ph.D. degree in theoretical plasma physics in 1992 from the University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway. He is currently Professor of Physics (signal processing) at the University of Tromso, and he is a Senior R&D Advisor for Fugro-Geoteam, Oslo, Norway. From 1993 to 1994, he was with the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway. From 1994 to 1999, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Tromso, and in 1999, he was appointed a Professor at the same university. Alfred has held visiting positions at Max-Planck-Institute fur Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (1988-1989); Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (1991); European Commission - Joint Research Center, Space Applications Institute, Ispra, Italy (1996); and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (2001-2002). His current research interests are in statistical signal processing, nonstationary random processes and inhomogeneous random fields, sensor array and multichannel signal processing, seismic imaging, audio, music and electroacoustics. Alfred has served in Technical Program Committees, and had other leading functions for many international conferences and workshops organized by IEEE and others. Professor Hanssen is a previous Member of IEEE Technical Committee for Sensor Arrays and Multichannel Signal Processing (2003-2005). Professor Hanssen is a past Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking (2003-2006), and a past Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2005-2007). At present, he serves as an Associate Editor for EURASIP Signal Processing, for Research Letters in Signal Processing, and for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Alfred was a recipient of an Outstanding Young Investigator award and grant from the Research Council of Norway, in 2004, and in 2007, he received the Science Communication Award from the University of Tromso.

Focus: Statistical signal processing, nonstationary random processes, time-frequency analysis, random fields

Brief Bio - Dominic K.C. Ho (Fellow, 2009) was born in Hong Kong. He received the B.Sc. degree in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in 1991. He was a Research Associate at the Royal Military College of Canada, a member of Scientific Staff at the Bell-Northern Research, and a Research Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been with the University of Missouri, Columbia, since 1997 and is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Ho served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2003-2006 and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2004-2008. He is a member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee. He is the editor of ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union) recommendation G.168: Digital Network Echo Cancellers and G.160: Voice Enhancement Devices. He is an inventor of 13 patents in the area of signal processing and mobile communications.

Focus: Statistical Signal Processing, Source Localization

Brief Bio - Yufei Huang received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2001. From 2001-2002, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Since 2002, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he is now Associate Professor. He has been a visiting professor at the Center of Bioinformatics, Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair. He is now also an adjunct professor of the Greehey Children’s Cancer Institute and Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Dr. Huang’s expertise is in the area of computational biology, statistical modeling, and Bayesian methods. He currently focuses on high throughput data integration, gene networks discovery, microRNA target identification, and LC-MS data analysis. He was a recipient of US National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award in 2005, Best Paper Award of 2006 Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference, and 2007 Best Paper Award of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. His research has been supported by NSF, National Institute of Health, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He has been an organizer of workshops and several special sessions including the IEEE Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, and Workshop on Systems Biology and Medicine, and IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Conference. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and the technical activity chair of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

Brief Bio - Jérôme Idier is a Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). He was born in France in 1966. He received the diploma degree in electrical engineering from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 1988, the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, in 1991, and the HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) from the same university in 2001. Since 1991, he is a full time researcher at CNRS. He has been with the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) from 1991 to 2002, and with IRCCyN (Institut de Recherches en Cybernétique de Nantes, France) since september 2002. His major scientific interest is in statistical approaches to inverse problems for signal and image processing. More specifically, he studies probabilistic modeling, inference and optimization issues yielded by data processing problems such as denoising, deconvolution, spectral analysis, reconstruction from projections. The investigated applications are mainly non destructive testing, astronomical imaging and biomedical signal processing. Jérôme Idier is a member of GRETSI association board, and of the EURASIP and IEEE-SP societies.

Brief Bio - Andreas Jakobsson received his M.Sc. from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, and his Ph.D. in Signal Processing from Uppsala University, Sweden, respectively. Since, he has held positions with Global IP Sound AB, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, King's College London, and Karlstad University. He has also been a visiting researcher at King's College London, Brigham Young University, Stanford University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and University of California, San Diego. He is currently Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Lund University, Sweden. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Technical Committee, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the Research Letters in Signal Processing. His research interests include statistical and array signal processing, detection and estimation theory, and related application in remote sensing, telecommunication and biomedicine.

Focus: Statistical and sensor array signal processing

Brief Bio - Ut-Va Koc is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucnet. He received Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1996 and joined Bell Labs since then. He has served as Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing (JASP) and General Co-Chair of the IEEE-NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop (LiSSA) in 2008. He is an IEEE Senior Member and serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He has published a book and a number of peer-reviewed papers/chapters on signal processing in communications and multimedia, in addition to a number of patents. His research interest includes mixed signal circuit design, signal processing for opto-electronic communication, digital/analog signal processing for high-speed data conversion, and application of signal processing to life science.

Brief Bio - S. Serdar Kozat received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1998. Until 2004, he has been in the graduate program of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in the Signal Processing Group. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2001 and 2004 respectively. Until 2007, he was with IBM Research as a full-time Research Staff Member in Speech Technologies Group, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY, where he focused on problems related to speech recognition with emphasis on machine learning algorithms. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department in Koc University. His research interests include adaptive filters and machine learning, online learning and universal methods, signal processing, communications and statistical signal processing. He is an inventor and a co-inventor of several patents and published more than thirty papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Kozat is a recipient of the TUBITAK Career Award.

Dr. Kozat is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal processing and has served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Information Theory as well as several conferences, such as IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing. He is a member of the IEEE, the Signal Processing Society and the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Brief Bio - James Lam received a first class BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester in 1983. He was awarded the Ashbury Scholarship, the A.H. Gibson Prize and the H. Wright Baker Prize for his academic performance. From the University of Cambridge, he obtained the MPhil and PhD degrees in control engineering in 1985 and 1988, respectively. His postdoctoral research was carried out in the Australian National University between 1990 and 1992. He is a Scholar and Fellow of the Croucher Foundation. Dr. Lam is now a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. Prior to that, he held faculty positions at now the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Melbourne. Professor Lam is a Chartered Mathematician and Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the IEE. He is an Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Control, the International Journal of Systems Science, the Journal of Sound and Vibration, the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, an editorial member of the IET Control Theory and Applications. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEE Proceedings: Control Theory and Applications and the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Design. His research interests include reduced-order modelling, delay systems, descriptor systems, stochastic systems, multidimensional systems, robust control and filtering, fault detection, and reliable control. He has published numerous research articles in these areas and co-authored a monograph entitled Robust Control and Filtering of Singular Systems (Springer: 2006).

Focus: System theory, filtering

Brief Bio - Erik G. Larsson is Professor and Head of the Division for Communication Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) at Linkoping University (LiU) in Linkoping, Sweden. He joined LiU in September 2007. He has previously been Associate Professor (Docent) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, and Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and the George Washington University, USA. His main professional interests are within the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. He has published some 50 papers on these topics, he is co-author of the textbook Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003) and he holds 10 patents on wireless technology. He is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SAM and SPCOM technical committees.

Focus: Signal processing for communications, statistical signal processing, estimation and detection

Brief Bio - Ta-Sung Lee received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1983, the M.S. degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree form Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, in 1989, all in electrical engineering. In 1990, he joined the Faculty of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he is currently a Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering. From 2005 to 2007, he was Chairman of Department of Communication Engineering, and from 2007 to 2008, he was Dean of Student Affairs of NCTU. His other past positions include Technical Advisor at Information and Communications Research Labs. of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Managing Director of Communications and Computer Continuing Education Program of NCTU. He was Vice Chairman of IEEE Communications Society Taipei Chapter from 2005 to 2007, and Chairman of IEEE Communications Society Taipei Chapter from 2007 to 2008. He is currently a Director of IEEE Taipei Section. In August 2008, he was appointed Commissioner of National Communications Commission (NCC) by the Premier of Taiwan. He has won several awards for his research, engineering and education contributions; these include two times National Science Council Superior Research Award, Young Electrical Engineer Award of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, two times NCTU Distinguished Scholar Award, and NCTU Teaching Award. He is active in research and development of signal processing techniques for wireless communications, such as smart antenna, MIMO encoding/decoding, array signal processing, sensor networks, cross-layer design, and hardware/software prototyping of advanced communications systems.

Focus: Signal processing for communications, sensor networks, array signal processing

Brief Bio - Amir Leshem (SM'06) received the B.Sc.(cum laude) in mathematics and physics, the M.Sc. (cum laude) in mathematics, and the Ph.D. in mathematics all from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1986,1990 and 1998 respectively. From 1998 to 2000 he was with Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft university of technology, The Netherlands, as a postdoctoral fellow working on algorithms for the reduction of terrestrial electromagnetic interference in radio-astronomical radio telescope antenna arrays and signal processing for communication. From 2000 to 2003 he was director of advanced technologies with Metalink Broadband where he was responsible for research and development of new DSL and wireless MIMO modem technologies and served as a member of ITU-T SG15, ETSI TM06, NIPP-NAI, IEEE 802.3 and 802.11. From 2000 to 2002 he was also a visiting researcher at Delft University of Technology. He is one of the founders of the new school of electrical and computer engineering at Bar-Ilan university where he is currently an Associate Professor and head of the Signal Processing track. From 2003 to 2005 he also was the technical manager of the U-BROAD consortium developing technologies to provide 100 Mbps and beyond over copper lines. His main research interests include multichannel wireless and wireline communication, applications of game theory to dynamic and adaptive spectrum management of communication networks, array and statistical signal processing with applications to multiple element sensor arrays and networks in radio-astronomy, brain research, wireless communications and radio-astronomical imaging, set theory, logic and foundations of mathematics

Focus: Signal processing for communications, array processing, statistical signal processing

Brief Bio - Geert Leus was born in Leuven, Belgium, in 1973. He received the electrical engineering degree and the PhD degree in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in June 1996 and May 2000, respectively. He has been a Research Assistant and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders, Belgium, from October 1996 till September 2003. During that period, Geert Leus was affiliated with the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Currently, Geert Leus is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. During the summer of 1998, he visited Stanford University, and from March 2001 till May 2002 he was a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the area of signal processing for communications. Geert Leus received a 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award and a 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. In the past, he has served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Focus: Signal processing for communications

Brief Bio - Ta-Hsin Li is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He received a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1992. He was on the faculty of the Statistics Department at Texas A&M University, College Station (1992-1997) and the Statistics and Applied Probability Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998-2000). He joined IBM in 1999. His main research interests include statistical theory and methods for time series analysis, signal and image processing, and spatial data analysis and modeling. He serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2000-2006, 2009-present) and for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2006-present). Dr. Li is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Brief Bio - Professor Li received his B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees in 1983 and 1986, respectively, from the Department of Wireless Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China, and his Ph.D. degree in 1994 from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama. He was a post-doctoral research associate with the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland from 1994 to 1996. He was with AT&T Labs - Research at Red Bank, New Jersey as a senior and then a principal technical staff member from 1996 to 2000. He joined Georgia Institute of Technology as an ECE Faculty in 2000. He has been awarded an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to signal processing for wireless communications.Dr. Li has published quite extensively in the area of wireless communications (please see the list of his publications).

Brief Bio - Roberto Lopez-Valcarce (M01) was born in Spain in 1971. He received the undergraduate diploma in telecommunication engineering from Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. From 1995 to 1996, he was a systems engineer with Intelsis. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2006. During that period he was with the Signal Theory and Communications Department, Universidad de Vigo, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests lie in the area of adaptive signal processing and communications, in which he holds two European patents. He has coauthored over 20 journal papers on these topics. Dr. Lopez-Valcarce is the recipient of a 2005 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and a coauthor of the textbook "Comunicaciones Digitales" (Prentice Hall 2007) (in Spanish).

Focus: Signal Processing For Communications, Adaptive Signal Processing

Brief Bio - Wing-Kin Ma received the B.Eng. (with First Class Hons.) in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, U.K., in 1995, and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electronic engineering, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK. He was with the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Institute of Communications Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, as an Assistant Professor, from Aug. 2005 to Aug. 2007. He is still holding an Adjunct Assistant Professor position there. Prior to that, he held various research positions at McMaster University, Canada, CUHK, Hong Kong, and the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are in signal processing (SP) and communications, with a recent emphasis on convex optimization techniques for SP, MIMO communications, random finite set theory for multitarget tracking, and source localization techniques for sensor networks and arrays. Dr. Ma's Ph.D. dissertation was commended to be of very high quality and well deserved honorary mentioning? by the Faculty of Engineering, CUHK, in 2001.

Focus: Signal Processing for Communications, Statistical Signal Processing, Convex Optimization

Brief Bio - Dr. Mandic received the Ph.D. degree in nonlinear adaptive signal processing in 1999 from Imperial College, London, London, U.K. He is now a Reader with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K. He has previously taught at the Universities of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, U.K., and Banja Luka, Bosnia Herzegovina. He has written about 200 publications on a variety of aspects of signal processing and a research monograph on recurrent neural networks (With J. Chambers, Wiley 2001). He has been a Guest Professor at the Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), and Frontier Researcher at the Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Mandic has been a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and Associate Editor for International Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms. He has won awards for his papers and for the products coming from his collaboration with industry. His recent interest has been in multimodal, multidimensional, and collaborative signal processing and data fusion with applications to brain computer interfaces, human computer interaction, and renewable energy. Dr Mandic has given a tutorial lecture (with Isao Yamada) on Machine Learning and Signal Processing Applications of Fixed Point Theory in ICASSP 2007, and is co-editor of a Springer volume \\\"Signal Processing Techniques for Knowledge Extraction and Information Fusion\\\", 2007.

Focus: Machine Learning

Brief Bio - Gerald Matz received the Dipl.-Ing. (1994) and Dr. techn. (2000) degrees in Electrical Engineering and the Habilitation degree (2004) for "Communication Systems" from Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Since Jan. 1995 he has been with the Department of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, where he currently holds a tenured Associate Professor position. From March 2004 to Feb. 2005 he was an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow with the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Ecole Supérieure d''''''''Electricité (France). Prof. Matz has directed or actively participated in several research projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and by the European Union. He has published some 80 technical articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. He serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, was Technical Program Co-Chair of EUSIPCO 2004, and member of the Program Committee of numerous international conferences. Prof. Matz is a recipient of the 2006 Kardinal Innitzer Most Promising Young Investigator Award. His research interests include wireless communications, statistical signal processing, and information theory.

Focus: Statistical signal processing and signal processing for communications

Brief Bio - Xavier Mestre (Barcelona, 1974) received the MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 1997 and 2002 respectively. During the pursuit of his PhD, he was recipient of a 1998-2001 PhD scholarship (granted by the Catalan Government) and was awarded with the 2002 Rosina Ribalta second prize for the best doctoral thesis project within areas of Information Technologies and Communications by the Epson Iberica foundation. From January 1998 to December 2002, he was with UPC\\\'s Communications Signal Processing Group, where worked as a Research Assistant. In January 2003 he joined the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), where he currently holds a position as a Senior Research Associate in the area of Radio Communications. He has actively participated in several European projects and contracts with the local industry. Since 2004 he is is coordinator of the Radio Communications Research Area at CTTC. His current research interests include: Array Processing, Parametric Estimation, Random Matrix Theory and Multicarrier Modulations.

Focus: Signal processing for communications

Brief Bio - Olgica Milenkovic is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She received her MS degree in Mathematics and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2001 and 2002, respectively. From 2002-2006 she was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado, and in 2006 she also worked as Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of algorithm theory, bioinformatics, coding theory, discrete mathematics and signal processing. She is the recipient of the NSF Career Award and the DARPA Young Investigator Award.

Brief Bio - Dennis R. Morgan (S63-68; M69; SM92) was born in Cincinnati, OH, on February 19, 1942. He received the B.S. degree in 1965 from the University of Cincinnati, OH, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1968 and 1970, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1965 to 1984 he was with the General Electric Company, Electronics Laboratory, Syracuse, NY, specializing in the analysis and design of signal processing systems used in radar, sonar, and communications. He is now a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Lucent Technologies, formerly AT&T) where he has been employed since 1984: from 1984 to 1990 he was with the Special Systems Analysis Department, Whippany NJ, where he was involved in the analysis and development of advanced signal processing techniques associated with communications, array processing, detection & estimation, and active noise control; from 1990 to 2002, he was with the Acoustics Research Department, Murray Hill NJ, where he was engaged in research on adaptive signal processing techniques applied to electroacoustic systems, including adaptive microphones, echo cancellation, talker direction finders, and blind source separation; since 2002, he has been with the Wireless Research Laboratory and the Wireless and Broadband Access Research Center, Murray Hill NJ, where he is involved in research on adaptive signal processing applied to RF and optical communication systems. He has authored numerous journal publications and is coauthor of Active Noise Control Systems: Algorithms and DSP Implementations (New York: Wiley, 1996) and Advances in Network and Acoustic Echo Cancellation (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001). Dr. Morgan served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing from 1995 to 2000, and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2001 to 2004. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Signal Processing Theory & Methods Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Focus: Adaptive signal processing

Brief Bio - Maciej Niedźwiecki was born in Poznań, Poland in 1953. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland, and the Dr.Hab. (D.Sc.) degree from the Technical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, in 1977, 1981 and 1991, respectively. He spent three years as a Research Fellow with the Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University, 1986-1989. In 1990-1993 he served as a Vice Chairman of Technical Committee on Theory of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is currently Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, a member of the IFAC committees on Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing and on Large Scale Complex Systems, and a member of the Automatic Control and Robotics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He is the author of the book Identification of Time-varying Processes (Wiley, 2000). He works as a Professor and Head of the Department of Automatic Control, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Computer Science, Gdańsk University of Technology. His main areas of research interests include system identification, statistical signal processing and adaptive systems.

Focus: Adaptive Filters, System Identification, Nonstationary Statistical Signal Processing.

Brief Bio - Sofia C. Olhede was born in Spanga, Sweden, in 1977. She received the M. Sci. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Imperial College London, London, U.K., in 2000 and 2003, respectively. She held the posts of Lecturer (2002-2006) and Senior Lecturer (2006-2007) with the Mathematics Department, Imperial College London, and in 2007, she joined the Department of Statistical Science, University College London, where she is Professor of Statistics and Honorary Professor of Computer Science. Her research interests include nonstationary time series and inhomogeneous random fields, multiple time series and random fields, multiscale methods, nonparametric estimation, sparsity and high dimensional data, as well as applications in finance, geoscience, oceanography, neuroscience and medical imaging. Prof. Olhede is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), serves on the programme committee of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences and is an Isaac Newton Institute correspondent.

Brief Bio - Soontorn Oraintara received the B.E. degree (Hons.) from King Monkuts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1996, and Boston University in 2000, respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington in July 2000, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Between 1998 and 2000, he was with the Advanced Research Development Group, Ericsson, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC. His current research interests are in the fields of wavelets, filterbanks and multirate systems, and their applications in data compression, image analysis and biomedical signal processing. He received the Technology Award from Boston University for the Integer DCT invention (with Y.J. Chen and T.Q. Nguyen) in 1999 and the College of Engineering Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award from UTA in 2003. He served as an associate editor for the Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing Journal and a guest editor for the Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Multirate Systems and Applications.

Focus: Filter banks, wavelets, multirate systems

Brief Bio - Daniel P. Palomar (S-99-M-03) received the Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. degrees (both with honors) from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He has held several research appointments, namely, at Kings College London (KCL), London, UK, during 1998; Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, from January 1999 to December 2003; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, from April to November 2001; Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Barcelona, from January to December 2002; Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, from August to November 2003; University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, from November 2003 to February 2004; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, from March 2004 to July 2006. His primary research interests include information-theoretic and signal processing aspects of MIMO channels, with special emphasis on convex optimization theory and majorization theory applied to communication systems. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, a guest editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2008 special issue on Game Theory in Communication Systems, and the lead guest editor of the IEEE JSAC 2007 special issue on Optimization of MIMO Transceivers for Realistic Communication Networks. Dr. Palomar received a 2004/06 Fulbright Research Fellowship; the 2004 Young Author Best Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society; (co-recipient of) the 2006 Best Student Paper Award at ICASSP-06; the 2002/03 best Ph.D. prize in Information Technologies and Communications by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC); the 2002/03 Rosina Ribalta first prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Information Technologies and Communications by the Epson Foundation; and the 2004 prize for the best Doctoral Thesis in Advanced Mobile Communications by the Vodafone Foundation and COIT.

Focus: Information theory, signal processing for MIMO communication channels, and convex optimization theory

Brief Bio - Jean-Christophe Pesquet (S'89–M'91–SM'99) received the engineering degree from Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 1987, the Ph.D. degree from the Université Paris-Sud (XI), Paris, France, in 1990, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from the Université Paris-Sud in 1999. From 1991 to 1999, he was a Maître de Conférences at the Université Paris-Sud, and a Research Scientist at the Laboratoire des Signauxet Systè mes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gif sur Yvette. He is currently a Professor with Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France and a Research Scientist at the Laboratoire d'Informatique of the university (UMR–CNRS 8049).

Brief Bio - Cédric Richard was born in Sarrebourg, France, in 1970. He received the Dipl.-Ing. and the M.S. degrees in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in 1998 from Compiègne University of Technology, France, all in electrical and computer engineering. From 1999 to 2003, he was an Associate Professor at Troyes University of Technology, France. Since 2003, he is a Professor at Charles Delaunay Institute (FRE CNRS 2848), Troyes University of Technology. His current research interests include statistical signal processing and machine learning. Dr. Richard is the author of over 70 papers. He is the General Chair of the XXIth francophone conference GRETSI on Signal and Image Processing to be held in Troyes, France, in 2007. In 2005, he was offered the position of chairman of a pattern recognition section of the federative CNRS research group ISIS on Information, Signal, Images and Vision. He is also in charge of the PhD students network of this group. Cédric Richard is a member of GRETSI association board, and of the EURASIP and IEEE-SP societies.

Focus: Statistical signal processing, time-frequency and time-scale analysis, pattern recognition

Brief Bio - Hideaki Sakai received the B.E. and D.E. degrees in Applied Mathmatics and Physics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1972 and 1981, respectively. From 1975 to 1978, he was with Tokushima University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics , Kyoto University. He spent 6 months from 1987 to 1988 at Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar. His research interests are in the areas of adaptive and statistical signal processing. He served as an associated editor of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing from Jan. 1999 to Jan. 2001. He was an editorial board member of EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing from 2001 to 2005. He was also the chair of Japan Chapter of IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2005 to 2007. He served as a Tutorial chair of ICASSP 2007. He is now an editorial board member of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and EURASIP Journal, Signal Processing. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IEICE.

Brief Bio - Anna Scaglione received her PhD from the University of Rome \"La Sapienza\", Rome, Italy in 1999. She was Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) in 1999-2000. In July 2008 she joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC Davis as Associate Professor. Prior to moving to UC Davis she was on the faculty at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) where she joined in 2001 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006. Her first academic appointment as assistant professor was in 2000, at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM). She was awarded and is co-recipient of some awards: the 2000 IEEE Signal Processing Transactions Best Paper Award; the NSF Career Award in 2002, the Ellersick Best Paper Award (MILCOM 2005), the 2005 Best paper for Young Authors of the Taiwan IEEE Comsoc/Information theory section. She has served the IEEE Signal Processing and Communication societies in several capacities over the years, she has been Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2002 to 2005), Co-Guest Editor of the Communication Magazine Special Issue on Power Line Communications (?Broadband is Power: Internet Access through the Power Line Networks?, May 2003). She has been member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communication Technical Committee since 2004 and of the IEEE Power Line Communication committee from 2005 to 2006. She was co-general Chair of the VI IEEE Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications workshop, held in June 2005 in New York City. Her research interests are in cooperative networks and sensor systems.

Focus: Cooperative networks; sensor systems

Brief Bio - Peter Schreier is currently a tenured Senior Lecturer with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Munich, Germany, in 1975. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, in 2003. In the Fall semester of 1998, he was a visiting research student with the Coding Group at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. In 1999-2000, he was a Research Fellow with the Optical 3D Metrology Group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Germany. In the Spring semester of 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate, and in the Spring semester of 2008, a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, USA.

Focus: Signal processing for communications

Brief Bio - Martin Schubert received the diploma and doctoral degree (with distinction) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 1998 he joined the Heinrich-Hertz Institute for Telecommunications (HHI) Berlin, as a research assistant. Since 2003, he has been with the Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab for Mobile Communications (MCI) Berlin, where he is presently working as a senior researcher. Since 2004 he is lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin. He has (co-)authored 2 books, 5 book chapters, and over 100 papers on topics related to multiantenna signal processing, interference management, and resource allocation for wireless networks. Dr. Schubert was co-chair of the 2009 VDE/EURASIP Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA'09). He was a corecipient of the VDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Award 2007 for outstanding, innovative contributions in the field of telecommunications, and he coauthored the 2007 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. For more information visit Dr. Schuber's page.

Focus: Signal processing for communications

Brief Bio - Ivan W. Selesnick received the BS, MEE, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively, from Rice University, Houston, TX. In 1997, he was a visiting professor at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University, New York, where he is associate Professor. His current research interests are in the area of digital signal and image processing, wavelet-based signal processing, and biomedical signal processing.

In 1991 he received a DARPA-NDSEG fellowship. In 1996 Dr. Selesnick's Ph.D. dissertation received the Budd Award for Best Engineering Thesis at Rice University and an award from the Rice-TMC chapter of Sigma Xi. He received an Alexander von Humboldt Award (1997) and a National Science Foundation Career award (1999). He has been a member of the IEEE SPTM Technical Committee, an associate editor of the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, and of IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

Brief Bio - Readership position in Signal Processing and Communications, Queen’s University of Belfast, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Northern Ireland. 2001 - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. 2005 IEEE Communications society Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award awarded for the best paper published in any Communication Society periodicals in the calendar year 2004. View paper awards. More information about Mathini Sellathurai can be found on her page at ECIT.

Brief Bio - Shahram Shahbazpanahi (M-02) was born in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1992, 1994, and 2001, respectively. From September 1994 to September 1996, he was a faculty member with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. From July 2001 to March 2003, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. From April 2003 to September 2004, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Department of Communication Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany. From September 2004 to April 2005, he was a Lecturer and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University. Since July 2005, he has joined the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada, where he holds an Assistant Professor position. His research interests include statistical and array signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, detection and estimation, smart antennas, spread-spectrum techniques, and MIMO communications.

Focus: Statistical and array signal processing, signal processing for communications

Brief Bio - Born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Konstantinos Slavakis received the M.Eng. and the Ph.D. degrees, in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from Tokyo Institute of Technology (TokyoTech), Tokyo, Japan, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 1996 to 2002, he was a Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholar, and for the period of April 2004 to April 2006, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) PostDoctoral Fellow. In December 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS), Seoul, Korea. From July 2006 till August 2007, he was a PostDoctoral Fellow in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece, under the ENTER Program. Since September 2007, he is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Telecommunications Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece. Since January 2009, he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He received the Tejima Memorial Award of TokyoTech for his Ph.D. thesis. Current research interests are the applications of convex analysis and computational algebraic geometry to signal processing, machine learning, array, and multidimensional systems' problems.

Brief Bio - Since 1982, Ljubisa Stankovic has been on the faculty at the University of Montenegro, where holds position of a full professor since 1995. Ph.D. degree in EE in 1988 from the University of Montenegro.

Prof. Stankovic was the rector of the University of Montenegro for the terms 2003-2005 and 2005-2008. He was also vice president of the Republic of Montenegro in 1989-91, a member of federal Yugoslav parliament 1992-96, and the President of the Board of directors of the Montenegrin mobile phone company ''Monet'' in 2001-2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Arts of Montenegro (CANU) since 1996.

Has published about 300 scientific papers, almost 100 of them in the leading international journals, mostly in Signal Processing area. He has published several textbooks and a monograph Time-frequency Signal Analysis. For scientific achievements he was awarded the highest state award of the Republic of Montenegro in 1997. Group lead by Prof. Stankovic received a research award in 2001 from the Volkswagen Foundation, Federal Republic of Germany.

Member of IEEE SPTM TC (2003-2008). AE for IEEE TIP 2005-2009, and IEEE SPL (2006-2009)

Brief Bio - Milica Stojanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1991 and 1993. After a number of years with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a Principal Scientist, she joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University in 2008. She is also a Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a Visiting Scientist at MIT. Her research interests include digital communications theory, statistical signal processing and wireless networks, and their applications to mobile radio and underwater acoustic communication systems. Milica is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and the IEEE Transactions on Signal processing.

Brief Bio - Jarmo Takala received his M.Sc. (hons) degree in Electrical Engineering and Dr.Tech. degree in Information Technology from Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland (TUT) in 1987 and 1999, respectively. From 1992 to 1996, he was a Research Scientist at VTT-Automation, Tampere, Finland. Between 1995 and 1996, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Researcher at TUT. Currently, he is Professor on Computer Engineering at TUT and head of the Institute of Digital and Computer Systems of TUT. His research interests include circuit techniques, parallel architectures, and design methodologies for digital signal processing systems.

Focus: Implementation of digital signal processing systems

Brief Bio - Jean-Yves Tourneret received the ingénieur degree in electrical engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique, d'Electrotechnique, d'Informatique et d'Hydraulique in Toulouse (ENSEEIHT) in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree from the National Polytechnic Institute from Toulouse in 1992. He is currently a professor in the university of Toulouse, France (ENSEEIHT) and a member of the IRIT laboratory (UMR 5505 of the CNRS). His research activities are centered around statistical signal processing with a particular interest to classification and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. He was the program chair of the European conference on signal processing (EUSIPCO), which was held in Toulouse (France) in 2002. He was also member of the organizing committee for the international conference ICASSP which was held in Toulouse (France) in 2006. He has been a member of different technical committees including the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2001-2007).

Focus: Statistical signal processing

Brief Bio - Wolfgang Utschick completed several industrial education programs before he received the diploma ('93) and doctoral degrees ('98) in electrical engineering, both with honors, from Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM). In this period, he held a scholarship of the Bavarian Ministry of Education for exceptional students. From '98 - '02, he co-directed the Signal Processing Group at the Institute of Circuit Theory and Signal Processing at TUM. From '00 to '02, he was consulting in 3 GPP standardization in the field of multi-element antenna systems.

In 2000, he was a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich and in 2005, he was a guest professor at the University of Edinburgh. In 2002, Dr. Utschick was appointed Professor at TUM where he is head of the Fachgebiet Methoden der Signalverarbeitung (Associate Institute for Signal Processing). He gives courses on Signal Processing, MIMO Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Optimization Theory (Crosslayer Design, Ressource Allocation) in the field of Wireless Communications. He holds some 10 patens in the field of multiantenna signal processing and has authored and co-authored more than 200 technical articles in international journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Utschick is editor of the Springer book series "Foundations in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking".

Dr. Utschick serves as a coordinator and spokesman of the new German wide DFG focus program "Communications over Interference limited Networks" (COIN) which is devoted to topics as cooperative communications, crosslayer design, ad-hoc wireless networks. He is a senior member of the VDE and of the IEEE where he serves as an associate editor for T-SP since '09. From '06 to '09, he was an associate editor for T-CAS 1 and T-CAS 2. Dr. Utschick is recipient of the 2007 Award of the German Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (Award of the German Society for Information Technology).

Brief Bio - Pierre Vandergheynst received the M.S. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in mathematical physics from the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He was Assistant Professor at EPFL (2002-2007), where he is now an Associate Professor. His research focuses on harmonic analysis, sparse approximations and mathematical image processing with applications to higher dimensional, complex data processing. He was co-Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing (2002-2006) and is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2007-present). He has been on the Technical Committee of various conferences and was Co-General Chairman of the EUSIPCO 2008 conference. Pierre Vandergheynst is the author or co-author of more than 50 journal papers, one monograph and several book chapters. He's a senior member of the IEEE, a laureate of the Apple ARTS award and holds seven patents.

Brief Bio - Namrata Vaswani received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering (EE) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, in August 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the University of Maryland, College Park, in August 2004. From 2004 to 2005, she was a research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since Fall 2005, she has been an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Iowa State University. Her research interests are in estimation and detection problems in sequential signal processing, biomedical imaging and video processing. Her current focus is on recursive sparse reconstruction problems.

Focus: (a) sparse signal reconstruction and compressive sensing, (b) tracking (Kalman, particle filtering) and sequential estimation and detection

Brief Bio - Sergiy A. Vorobyov (M'02-SM'05) was born in Ukraine in 1972. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in systems and data processing from National University of Radioelectronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Since 2006, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, as an Assistant Professor. Since his graduation, he also occupied various research and faculty positions in National University of Radioelectronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine; Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan; McMaster University, Ontario, Canada; Duisburg-Essen University and Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany; and Joint Research Institute, Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities, UK. His research interests include statistical and array signal processing, applications of optimization and linear algebra methods in signal processing and communications, estimation and detection theory, sampling theory and applications, and cooperative and cognitive systems. He is a recipient of the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2007 Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award, and other research awards. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is a member of Sensor Array and Multi-Channel Signal Processing Technical Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Focus: Statistical & Array Signal Processing

Brief Bio - Z. Jane Wang (M'02) received the B.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 1996, with the highest honor, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut in 2000 and 2002, respectively, all in electrical engineering. While at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Wang received the Outstanding Engineering Doctoral Student Award. She has been Research Associate of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. Since Aug. 1, 2004, she has been with the Department Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Canada, as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests are in the broad areas of statistical signal processing theory and applications, with focus on information security and biomedical signal processing and modeling. She co-received the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (JASP) Best Paper Award 2004, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award 2005. She is serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. She is the Chair and founder of the IEEE Signal Processing Chapter at Vancouver.

Brief Bio - Kainam Thomas WONG (ktwong@ieee.org) earned the B.S.E. (Chemical Engineering) from the University of California (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.) in 1985, the B.S.E.E. from the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.) in 1987, the M.S.E.E. from the Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.) in 1990, and the Ph.D. in E.E. from Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.) in 1996. K. T. Wong was a manufacturing engineer at the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Michigan, U.S.A.) from 1990 to 1991, and a Senior Professional Staff Member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Laurel, Maryland, U.S.A.) from 1996 to 1998. Between 1998 and 2006, he had been a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Waterloo (Canada). Since 2006, he has been with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Associate Professor. He has/had been an Associate Editor for the "IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology", the "IEEE Signal Processing Letters", and "Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing". K. T. Wong was conferred the "Premier's Research Excellence Award" by the Canadian province of Ontario in 2003. His research interest includes signal processing for communications and sensor-array signal processing.

Focus: Signal processing for communications; sensor-array signal processing

Brief Bio - An-Yeu (Andy) Wu (IEEE S'91-M'96) received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992 and 1995, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.

From August 1995 to July 1996, he was a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, working on high-speed transmission IC designs. From 1996 to July 2000, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department of National Central University, Taiwan. In August 2000, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include low-power/high-performance VLSI architectures for DSP and communication applications, adaptive/multirate signal processing, reconfigurable broadband access systems and architectures, and SoC platform for software/hardware co-design.

Dr. Wu served as an Associate Editor for EURASIP JOURNAL OF APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING from 2001 to 2004, and acted as the leading Guest Editor for a special issue on "Signal Processing for Broadband Access Systems: Techniques and Implementations" of the same journal (published in December 2003). He also served as the Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERT LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS from 2003 to 2005. He is now the Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I: REGULAR PAPERS. Dr. Wu has served on the technical program committees of many major IEEE International Conferences, such as ICIP, SiPS, AP-ASIC, ISCAS, ISPACS, ICME, SOC, and A-SSCC. Dr. Wu received the A-class Research Award from National Science Council for four times from 1997 to 2000. He received the Macronix International Corporation (MXIC) Young Chair Professor Award in 2003. In 2004, Dr. Wu received the Distinguished Young Engineer Award from The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan. In 2005, Dr. Wu received two research awards, Dr. Wu Ta-you Award (young scholar award) and President Fu Si-nien Award, from National Science Council and National Taiwan University, respectively, for his research works in VLSI system designs. Since August 2007, he is on leave and serves as the Deputy General Director of SoC Technology Center (STC), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Focus: VLSI architectures for DSP and communications

Brief Bio - Xiang-Gen Xia (M'97,S'00,F'09) received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, and his M.S. degree in mathematics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1983, 1986, and 1992, respectively.

He was a Senior/Research Staff Member at Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California, during 1995-1996. In September 1996, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, where he is the Charles Black Evans Professor. He was a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong during 2002-2003, where he is an Adjunct Professor. Before 1995, he held visiting positions in a few institutions. His current research interests include space-time coding, MIMO and OFDM systems, digital signal processing, and SAR and ISAR imaging. Dr. Xia has over 185 refereed journal articles published and accepted, and 7 U.S. patents awarded and is the author of the book Modulated Coding for Intersymbol Interference Channels (New York, Marcel Dekker, 2000).

Dr. Xia received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award in 1997, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 1998, and the Outstanding Overseas Young Investigator Award from the National Nature Science Foundation of China in 2001. He also received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award of the Engineering School of the University of Delaware in 2001. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trasactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing (EURASIP), and the Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). He was a guest editor of Space-Time Coding and Its Applications in the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing in 2002. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing during 1996 to 2003, the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing during 2001 to 2004, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology during 2005 to 2008, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters during 2003 to 2007, and the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing during 2001 to 2004. Dr. Xia served as a Member of the Signal Processing for Communications Committee from 2000 to 2005 and is currently a Member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee (from 2004) in the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He serves as IEEE Sensors Council Representative of IEEE Signal Processing Society (from 2002) and served as the Representative of IEEE Signal Processing Society to the Steering Committee for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing during 2005 to 2006. Dr. Xia is Technical Program Chair of the Signal Processing Symp., Globecom 2007 in Washington D.C. and the General Co-Chair of ICASSP 2005 in Philadelphia.

Brief Bio - Dr. Isao Yamada received the B.E.degree in computer science from the University of Tsukuba, in 1985 and the M.E.and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Communications and Integrated Systems, Tokyo Institute of Technology. From August 1996 to July 1997, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, State College.

His current research interests are in mathematical signal processing, adaptive signal processing, statistical signal processing, nonlinear inverse problem and optimization theory. He has been Associate Editor for several journals, including the International Journal on Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (since 1997), the IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2001-2005) and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS--PART I: FUNDAMENTAL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (2006-2007). He received Excellent Paper Awards in 1990, 1994, and 2006 and the Young Researcher Award in 1992 from the IEICE; the ICF Research Award from the International Communications Foundation in 2004; the DoCoMo Mobile Science Award (Fundamental Science Division) from Mobile Communication Fund in 2005; and the Fujino Prize from Tejima Foundation in 2008. He has given a tutorial lecture (with Danilo Mandic) on Machine Learning and Signal Processing Applications of Fixed Point Theory in ICASSP 2007.

Focus: Adaptive signal processing

Brief Bio - Arie Yeredor received the B.Sc. (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and 1997, respectively, both from Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Tel Aviv, Israel. He is currently with the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, at TAU\'s School of Electrical Engineering, where his teaching and research activities are in the fields of statistical and digital signal processing. He serves as Academic Head of the DSP labs at TAU, and has been awarded the yearly Best Lecturer of the Faculty of Engineering Award five times. He also holds a consulting position with NICE Systems Inc., Ra?anana, Israel, in the fields of speech and audio processing, video processing and emitter location algorithms. Dr. Yeredor has served as Associate Editor for IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS and for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEM II, and is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society\'s Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee.

Focus: Signal Processing Theory and Methods

Brief Bio - Tong Zhang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2002. Currently he is an Associate Professor in electrical, computer and systems engineering department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. His current research interests include VLSI signal processing, memory circuits and systems, and computer architecture. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II.

Brief Bio - Yimin Zhang ( http://yiminzhang.com/ ) received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, in 1988. He joined the faculty of the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1988. He served as a Technical Manager at the Communication Laboratory Japan, Kawasaki, Japan, from 1995 to 1997, and was a Visiting Researcher at ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, from 1997 to 1998. Since 1998, he has been with the Villanova University, Villanova, PA, where he is currently a Research Professor with the Center for Advanced Communications and the director of the Wireless Communications and Positioning Lab.

Dr. Zhang’s recent research interests lie in the area of statistical signal and array processing for communications and radar applications, including wireless communications and networks, cooperative communications, MIMO communications and radar systems, target localization and radar imaging, time-frequency analysis, and radio frequency identification (RFID). He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the Journal of the Franklin Institute and serves on the editorial board of the Signal Processing journal.

Focus: Statistical and array signal processing, signal processing for communications, radar signal processing.

Brief Bio - Shengli Zhou received the B.S. degree in 1995 and the M.Sc. degree in 1998, from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, both in electrical engineering and information science. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, in 2002. He has been an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs, since 2003. He now holds a United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Professorship in Engineering Innovation. His general research interests lie in the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. His recent focus has been on underwater acoustic communications and networking. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from February 2005 to January 2007. He received the 2007 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award and the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Focus: Underwater acoustic communications, signal processing, and networking, wireless communications, signal processing for communications.