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 - 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 - Emmanuel Candes is a Professor of Mathematics, a Professor of Statistics, and a member of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. He is also the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (on leave). He received the Ph.D. degree in statistics from Stanford University in 1998. His research interests are in computational harmonic analysis, multiscale analysis, mathematical optimization, statistical estimation and detection with applications to the imaging sciences, signal processing, scientific computing, and inverse problems.

Professor Candes received numerous awards, most notably the 2006 Alan T. Waterman Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the National Science Foundation and which recognizes the achievements of scientists who are no older than 35, or not more than seven years beyond their doctorate. Other awards include the 2008 Information Theory Society Paper Award, the 2005 James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing awarded by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the 2010 George Polya Prize awarded by SIAM. He has given over 40 plenary lectures at major international conferences.

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 - Lawrence Carin was born March 25, 1963 in Washington, DC and earned the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1985, 1986, and 1989, respectively. In 1989 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Polytechnic University (Brooklyn) as an Assistant Professor, and became an Associate Professor there in 1994. In September 1995 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Duke University, where he is now the William H. Younger Professor of Engineering. He is a co-founder of Signal Innovations Group, Inc. (SIG), a small business, where he serves as the Director of Technology. His current research interests include signal processing, sensing, and machine learning. He was previously an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, he is an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies.

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 - Jonathon Chambers gained his PhD degree in Signal Processing in 1990, after study at Peterhouse Cambridge University and Imperial College, London, UK.

From 1991-1994 he was a research scientist at Schlumberger Cambridge Research, UK. In 1994 he returned to Imperial College as a Lecturer in Signal Processing, gaining promotion to a Readership (Associate Professor) in 1998. From 2001-2004 he was the Director of the Centre for Digital Signal Processing and Professor of Signal Processing within the Division of Engineering at King's College London; and from 2004-2007 he was awarded a Cardiff Professorial Research Fellowship within the School of Engineering, Cardiff University. In 2007 he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Loughborough University where he heads the Advanced Signal Processing Group and serves as an Associate Dean within the School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering.

His research interests are in adaptive and blind signal processing and their applications. He is co-author of the books "Recurrent Neural Networks for Prediction: Learning Algorithms, Architectures and Stability", Wiley, 2001, and "EEG Signal Processing", Wiley, 2007. He has advised almost 50 researchers through to PhD graduation and published more than 350 conference and journal outputs, many in IEEE journals.

He was the technical programme chair for the DSP 2007 conference and the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, 2009, both held in Cardiff, UK; and the technical programme co-chair for ICASSP 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. He was awarded the first QinetiQ Visiting Fellowship in 2007 "for his outstanding contributions to adaptive signal processing and his contributions to QinetiQ" as a result of his successful industrial collaboration with the International Defence Systems Company, QinetiQ. He is an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to adaptive signal processing and its applications" and an IEE Fellow.

He has served on the IEEE Signal Processing Theory & Methods Technical Committee for six years, and is currently a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Board and a member of the European Signal Processing Society Best Paper Awards Selection Panel. He has also served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing for two previous terms over the periods 1997-1999 and 2004-2007.

Brief Bio - Benoit Champagne was born in Joliette, P.Q., Canada in January 1961. He received the B.Ing. degree in Engineering Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in 1983, the M.Sc. degree in Physics from the Université de Montréal in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1990. From 1990 to 1999, he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at INRS-Telecommunications, Université du Quebec, Montréal. In 1999, he joined McGill University, Montreal, as an Associate Professor within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he served as Associate Chairman of Graduate Studies from 2004 to 2007. His research focuses on the investigation of new computational algorithms for the digital processing of information bearing signals. His interests span many areas of statistical signal processing, including detection and estimation, sensor array processing, adaptive filtering, and applications thereof to broadband voice and data communications. He has published several papers in these areas, including key works on subspace tracking, speech enhancement, time delay estimation and spread sources localization. His research has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Government of Quebec under various grant programs, and some major industrial sponsors, including Nortel Networks, Bell Canada and InterDigital. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing and has served on the Technical Committees of several international conferences in the fields of signal processing and communications. His is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

Brief Bio - Chong-Yung Chi (祁忠勇) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, in 1983. From 1983 to 1988, he was with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. He has been a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering since 1989 and the Institute of Communications Engineering (ICE) since 1999 (also the Chairman of ICE during 2002-2005), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He has published more than 180 technical papers, including more than 60 journal papers (mostly in IEEE Trans. Signal Processing), 2 book chapters and more than 110 peer-reviewed conference papers, as well as a graduate-level textbook, Blind Equalization and System Identification, Springer-Verlag, 2006. His current research interests include signal processing for wireless communications, convex analysis and optimization for blind source separation, biomedical and hyperspectral image analysis.

Dr. Chi is a senior member of IEEE. He has been a Technical Program Committee member for many IEEE sponsored and co-sponsored workshops, symposiums and conferences on signal processing and wireless communications, including Co-organizer and General Co-chairman of 2001 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), and Co-Chair of Signal Processing for Communications (SPC) Symposium, ChinaCOM 2008 & Lead Co-Chair of SPC Symposium, ChinaCOM 2009. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing (5/2001~4/2006), IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II (1/2006-12/2007), IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I (1/2008-12/2009), Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (6/2006~5/2010), and a member of Editorial Board of EURASIP Signal Processing Journal (6/2005~5/2008), and an editor (7/2003~12/2005) as well as a Guest Editor (2006) of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. He was a member of IEEE Signal Processing Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods (2005-2010). Currently, he is a member of IEEE Signal Processing Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking.

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 - Andrzej Cichocki received the Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. (Habilitation) degrees, all in electrical engineering. from Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). He is currently the senior team leader and head of the laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, at RIKEN Brain Science Institute (JAPAN). He is co-author of more than 250 technical papers and 4 monographs (two of them translated to Chinese) in area biomedical signal processing and blind source separation. His current interest is in brain computer interface, machine learning and tensor decompositions in biomedical applications. Professor Cichocki has been invited to the Council of Canadian Academies Survey of Science and Technology Strengths as an author and coauthor of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide His profile is available at http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wpZDx1cAAAAJ&hl=en.

Brief Bio - Shuguang Cui received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California, USA, in 2005, M.Eng in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, in 2000, and B.Eng. in Radio Engineering with the highest distinction from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1997. He is now working as an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. His current research interests include statistical signal processing for complex systems, resource allocation for wireless networks, network information theory, and general communication theories. He is a recipient of multiple fellowships and scholarships, two best conference paper awards, three NSF grant awards, six DoD grant awards, and the TAMU Engineering School Select Young Faculty award. He has been serving as the TPC co-chairs for the 2007 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, the ICC'08 Communication Theory Symposium, the GLOBECOM'10 Communication Theory Symposium, the 2011 Information Theory Summer School, and the SmartGridComm’12 Cyber Security Symposium. He has also been serving as the associate editors for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communication Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is also the elected member and the industry/government sub-committee chair for IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical Committee (2009~2015).

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 - Professor Antonio De Maio received the Dr. Eng. degree (with honors) in the 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering in the 2002, both from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He was a Visiting Researcher with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, and a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the University of Naples Federico II. His research interest lies in the field of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on radar detection, optimization theory applied to radar signal processing, knowledge aided radar signal processing, and waveform design and diversity. Prof. De Maio is the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Fred Nathanson Memorial Award as the young (less than 40 years of age) Aerospace Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Radar Engineer 2010 whose performance is particularly noteworthy as evidenced by contributions to the radar art over a period of several years. He is also the recipient of the 2011 IET Premium Award for Radar, Sonar & Navigation. Prof. De Maio is a member of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES) Radar Systems Panel and of the IEEE Sensor Array Multichannel (SAM) processing committee. He got many grants and contracts on radar and signal processing, funded by the European Defence Agency (EDA), European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), Regione Campania, and some Italian companies.

Brief Bio - Mérouane Debbah was born in Madrid, Spain. He entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) in 1996 where he received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees respectively in 1999 and 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he worked for Motorola Labs on Wireless Local Area Networks and prospective fourth generation systems. From 2002 until 2003, he was appointed Senior Researcher at the Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (FTW) (Vienna, Austria) working on MIMO wireless channel modeling issues. From 2003 until 2007, he joined the Mobile Communications department of the Institut Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis, France) as an Assistant Professor. He is presently a Professor at Supelec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), holder of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio. His research interests are in information theory, signal processing and wireless communications. Mérouane Debbah is the recipient of the "Mario Boella" prize award in 2005, the 2007 General Symposium IEEE GLOBECOM best paper award, the Wi-Opt 2009 best paper award, the 2010 Newcom++ best paper award as well as the Valuetools 2007,Valuetools 2008 and CrownCom2009 best student paper awards. He is a WWRF fellow.

Brief Bio - Jean Pierre Delmas (M'00-SM'06) was born in France in 1950. He received the Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France in 1973, the Certificat d'études supérieures from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France in 1982 and the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) degree from the University of Paris, Orsay, France in 2001. Since 1980, he has been with the Institut Telecom, Telecom SudParis, where he is presently a Professor in the CITI department and Deputy director of UMR CNRS 5157 (SAMOVAR) laboratory.

His teaching and research interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing with application to communications and antenna array. Prof. Delmas has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2002-2006) and presently for Signal Processing (Elsevier). He is author and co-author of more than 90 papers (journal, conference and chapter of book) and is IEEE Senior Member.

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 - Min Dong received her B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1998, and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with minor in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 2004. During 2004-2008, she was with the Corporate Research & Development, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, California, where she has actively contributed to the research, design, and standardization of current and future OFDMA technologies for the next generation broadband mobile communications. Since July 2008, she has been with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Ontario, Canada, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. She also holds a status-only Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.

She received the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Her research interests are in the areas of adaptive signal processing for communications, broadband mobile access networks, and cooperative and adaptive communication and networking techniques and optimization.

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 - Minyue Fu received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1982, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 to 1989, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1989. Currently, he is a Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at University of Iowa in 1995-1996, a Senior Fellow/Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2002, and Visiting Professor at Tokyo University in 2003. He has also held ChangJiang Visiting Professorship at Shandong University, visiting Professorship at South China University of Technology, and Qian-ren Professorship at Zhejiang University in China. He was elected to a Fellow of IEEE in late 2003. His main research interests include control systems, signal processing and communications. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica and Journal of Optimization and Engineering.

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 - 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 - 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 - Martin Haardt (S’90 – M’98 – SM’99) has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Head of the Communications Research Laboratory at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, since 2001. After studying electrical engineering at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and at Purdue University, USA, he received his Diplom-Ingenieur (M.S.) degree from the Ruhr-University Bochum in 1991 and his Doktor-Ingenieur (Ph.D.) degree from Munich University of Technology in 1996.

In 1997 he joint Siemens Mobile Networks in Munich, Germany, where he was responsible for strategic research for third generation mobile radio systems. From 1998 to 2001 he was the Director for International Projects and University Cooperations in the mobile infrastructure business of Siemens in Munich, where his work focused on mobile communications beyond the third generation. During his time at Siemens, he also taught in the international Master of Science in Communications Engineering program at Munich University of Technology.

Martin Haardt has received the 2009 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Vodafone (formerly Mannesmann Mobilfunk) Innovations-Award for outstanding research in mobile communications, the ITG best paper award from the Association of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Information Technology (VDE), and the Rohde & Schwarz Outstanding Dissertation Award. In the fall of 2006 and the fall of 2007 he was a visiting professor at the University of Nice in Sophia-Antipolis, France, and at the University of York, UK, respectively. His research interests include wireless communications, array signal processing, high-resolution parameter estimation, as well as numerical linear and multi-linear algebra. Prof. Haardt has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2002-2006 and since 2011), the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2006-2010), the Research Letters in Signal Processing (2007-2009), the Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (since 2009), and as a guest editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. He has also served as an elected member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (since 2011), as the technical co-chair of the IEEE International Symposiums on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2005 in Berlin, Germany, and as the technical program chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2010 in York, UK.

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 - Y.-W. Peter Hong received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1999, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2005. He joined the Institute of Communications Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in Fall 2005, where he is now an Associate Professor. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California during June-August of 2008. His research interests include cooperative communications, distributed signal processing for sensor networks, physical layer secrecy, and PHY-MAC cross-layer designs for wireless networks.

Dr. Hong received the best paper award for young authors from the IEEE IT/COM Society Taipei/Tainan chapter in 2005 and the best paper award among unclassified papers in MILCOM 2005. He also received the Junior Faculty Research Award and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of EECS at National Tsing Hua University in 2009 and 2010, respectively. He is a co-editor (along with A. Swami, Q. Zhao, and L. Tong) of the book entitled “Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications Perspectives” published by John-Wiley & Sons in 2007, and is a coauthor (along with W.-J. Huang and C.-C. Jay Kuo) of the book entitled “Cooperative Communications and Networking: Technologies and System Design”. Dr. Hong has served as Publication Co-Chair and TPC Track Co-Chair of VTC2010-Spring for the track on “Cognitive Radio and Cooperative Communications” and also as Publicity Co-Chair of ISITA/ISSSTA 2010. Dr. Hong is also a guest editor of EURASIP Special Issue on Cooperative MIMO Multicell Networks and IJSNET Special Issue on Advances in Theory and Applications of Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Networks.

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 - Piotr Indyk is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He joined MIT in 2000, after earning PhD from Stanford University. Earlier, he received Magister degree from Uniwersytet Warszawski in 1995. His research interests include high-dimensional computational geometry,sketching and streaming algorithms, sparse recovery and compressive sensing. He received the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship and Packard Fellowship.

Brief Bio - Prakash Ishwar received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1996 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1998 and 2002 respectively. After two years as a post-doctoral researcher in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculty of Boston University where he is currently Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Ishwar is a recipient of a 2005 United States National Science Foundation CAREER award, a co-recipient of the best paper award at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS), and a co-winner of the 2010 Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge in the International Conference on Pattern Recognition. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an elected member of the IEEE Image Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2009 – 2014). He served as the Chair of Local Arrangements for AVSS 2010, the Chair of Exhibits and Demonstrations for the 2004 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, and was a co-organizer of Berkeley FuSe 2003.

Dr. Ishwar is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing for a two year term from January 2012. His research interests are in distributed/collaborative signal processing and information theory.

Brief Bio - Joakim Jaldén received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in 2002 and 2007 respectively. From July 2007 to June 2009 he held a post-doctoral research position at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. He also studied at Stanford University, CA, USA, from September 2000 to May 2002, and worked at ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, as a visiting researcher, from August to September, 2008. In July 2009 he joined the Signal Processing Lab within the School of Electrical Engineering at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, as an Assistant Professor.

For his work on MIMO communications, Joakim has been awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s 2006 Young Author Best Paper Award and the first price in the Student Paper Contest at the 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). He is also a recipient of the Ingvar Carlsson Award issued in 2009 by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, and the EU FP7 NEWCOM++ Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011 for work related to MIMO communications. He has since 2009 been an associate editor for the IEEE Communication Letters where he has handled 80+ manuscripts.

Brief Bio - Eduard Axel Jorswieck was born in 1975 in Berlin, Germany. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur (M.S.) degree and Doktor-Ingenieur (Ph.D.) degree, both in electrical engineering and computer science from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He has been with the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) Berlin, in the Broadband Mobile Communication Networks Department since 2001. Since 2005, he is Lecturer at Technische Universität Berlin. He joined the Department of Signals, Sensors and Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in 2006 as Post-Doc and in 2007 as Assistant Professor. In 2008, he accepted a position as the head of the Chair for Communications Theory and Full Professor at Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Germany. Dr. Jorswieck was visiting professor at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée/ESIEE during fall 2010.

His research interests are in the area of multi-user communication theory, applied information theory, and signal processing for wireless communications. He has published one monograph, five book chapters, more than 40 journal, and over 125 conference publications on these topics. In 2006, he received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.

Dr. Jorswieck is Senior-Member of IEEE. He is elected member of the IEEE SPCOM Technical Committee (2008-2011). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2008-2011). From 2010-2012, he is the technical project manager of the European project SAPHYRE - sharing physical resources - mechanism and implementations for wireless networks.

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 - Visa Koivunen (Senior Member, IEEE) received his D.Sc. (Tech) degree with honors from the University of Oulu, Dept. of Electrical Engineering. He received the primus doctor (best graduate) award among the doctoral graduates in years 1989-1994. From 1992 to 1995 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. From 1997 to 1999 he was an Associate Professor at the Signal Processing Labroratory, Tampere University of Technology. Since 1999 he has been a Professor of Signal Processing at the Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Aalto University (Helsinki University of Technology), Finland. He is one of the Principal Investigators in SMARAD Center of Excellence (Smart Radios and Wireless Systems) nominated by the Academy of Finland (terms 2001-2007 and 2008-2013). He has been adjunct full professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA years 2003-2007. During his sabbatical leave in 2007 he was visiting fellow at Princeton University, NJ, USA. He has also been Nokia Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research Center (NRC), Helsinki during his sabbatical in 2006 and part time ever since. Year 2010 he was appointed to Academy Professor position granted by the Academy of Finland.

Dr. Koivunen's research interest include wireless communications, radar and sensor array signal processing and related estimation and detection theory. Current topics include cognitive radios, antenna arrays, MIMO communications and radar . He has published about 300 peer reviewed papers in international scientific conferences and journals. He co-authored pape rs that received the best paper award in IEEE PIMRC 2005, EUSIPCO 2006 and European Conference on Antennas and propagation (EuCAP 2006) conferences. He was awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for the year 2007 (with Jan Eriksson). He served as an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is a member of the editorial board for the,Transaction on Signal Processing, Signal Processing journal and Journal of Wireless Communication and Networking. He is also a member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communication Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC) as well as SAM-TC. He was the general chair of the IEEE SPAWC (Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication) 2007 conference in Helsinki, June 2007.

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 - Samson Lasaulce received his BSc and Agrégation degree in Applied Physics from École Normale Supérieure (Cachan) and his MSc and PhD in Signal Processing from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris). He has been working with Motorola Labs for three years (1999, 2000, 2001) and with France Télécom R&D for two years (2002, 2003). Since 2004, he has joined the CNRS and Supélec as a Senior Researcher. Since 2004, he is also Professor at École Polytechnique. His broad interests lie in the areas of communications, signal processing and information theory with a special emphasis on game theory for wireless communications. Samson Lasaulce is the recipient of the 2007 ACM/ICST International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS) and 2009 International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM) best student paper awards. He organized several scientific events such as VALUETOOLS 2011 (general chair) and several workshops on game theory for wireless networks such as GAMECOMM 2009, Pisa, Italy, the GDR Workshop on Games and Telecommunications, 2009, Paris, France, the WNC3 2008, Berlin, Germany (part of WIOPT).

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 - 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 - David J. Love (S’98 - M’05 - SM'09) received the B.S. (with highest honors), M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000, 2002, and 2004, respectively. During the summers of 2000 and 2002, he was with Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX. Since August 2004, he has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, where he is now an Associate Professor. Dr. Love currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has also served as a guest editor for special issues of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. His research interests are in the design and analysis of communication systems, MIMO array processing, and array processing for medical imaging.

Dr. Love has been inducted into Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Along with co-authors, he received the 2009 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Jack Neubauer Memorial Award for the best systems paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in that year. He was the recipient of the Fall 2010 Purdue HKN Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2003, Dr. Love was awarded the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Daniel Noble Fellowship.

Brief Bio - Stefano Marano received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree (highest rank) in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science both from the University of Naples, Italy, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the University of Salerno, Italy, where formerly served as Assistant Professor. His areas of interest include statistical signal processing with emphasis on distributed inference, sensor networks, and information theory. He published about 90 papers, including some invited, on leading international journals/transactions and proceedings of leading international conferences. He has also given several invited talks in the area of statistical signal processing.

Prof. Marano was awarded the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION 1999 Best Paper Award (jointly with G. Franceschetti and F. Palmieri) for his work on stochastic modeling of electromagnetic propagation in urban areas. He also co-authored the paper winning the Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) at the 12th Conference on Information Fusion in 2009. As a reviewer, he handled hundreds of papers, mainly for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS, and was selected as Appreciated Reviewer by the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING in the years 2007 and 2008. Prof. Marano has been in the Organizing Committee of several international conferences in the field of signal processing and data fusion, and in the Technical Program Committee of the main international symposia in those fields. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING and for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS.

Brief Bio - Antonio Napolitano (M’95–SM’07) was born in Napoli, Italy, on February 7, 1964. He received the Dr.Eng. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. From 1995 to 2001, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Napoli Federico II. In 1997, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, as a Postdoctorate Research Associate. From 2001 to 2005, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Napoli Federico II. Since 2005, he has been a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Napoli “Parthenope,” Napoli, Italy. In 2005, he was a Visiting Professor at the Institute de Recherche Mathematique de Rennes (IRMAR), University of Rennes 2, Haute Bretagne, France. In 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire d’Analyse des Signaux & des Processus Industriels, University Jeann Monnet, Roanne, France. He held visiting appointments at the Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas (CIMAT), Guanajuato, Gto, Mexico; the Econometric Department, Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu (WSB-NLU), Nowy Sacz, Poland; and School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, S.A., Australia. He was Coordinator and Principal Investigator of a NATO Grant (2001–2004) on Signal Processing and Principal Investigator of a NATO Grant (2008-2011) on Communications Security. His research interests include statistical signal processing, system identification, the theory of higher order statistics of nonstationary signals, and wireless systems. Dr. Napolitano was the recipient of the 1995 EURASIP Best Paper Award for an article on higher order cyclostationarity and in 2006 for an article on the functional approach for signal analysis. In 2008, he received the Elsevier Most Cited Paper Award for a review article on cyclostationarity.

From 2006 to 2009 and from 2011 to present, he has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. Since 2008, he has been on the Editorial Board of Signal Processing (Elsevier). From 2007 to 2009, he was on the Editorial Board of Research Letters in Signal Processing (Hindawi). Since 2010, he has been on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hindawi). Since 2008, he has been an Elected Member of the Signal Processing Theory and Method Technical Committee (SPTM-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and is EURASIP Local Liaison Officer.

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 - EDUCATION:
Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2001
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 1997
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Xi’an JiaoTong University, Xi’an, China, 1994

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011 to present
Research Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, 2006-2011
Postdoc Research Associate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, 2001-2006

Dr. Ruixin Niu conducts research in the general area of statistical signal processing and its applications. The broad goals of his research program are: (i) to develop innovative techniques and theoretical results for optimizing the quality of statistical inference, including detection, estimation, nonlinear non-Gaussian tracking, information fusion, compressive sensing, and communications; (ii) to develop practical engineering solutions to achieve the optimal performance of such statistical inference, especially in networked systems, such as sensor networks, and MIMO radar systems; (iii) to efficiently manage sensors and allocate resources in networked systems to improve statistical inference performance and to conserve limited system resources.

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

He has 21 papers which have been published in, accepted for, or submitted to technical journals (17 published, 1 accepted, and 3 submitted), including 13 in IEEE TSP (10 published and 3 submitted) in the last ten years, and 52 conference papers. He received many awards including the Best Paper Award, at the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion in 2004. He is a coauthor of the paper that won the Best Student Paper Award at the Thirteenth International Conference on Information Fusion in 2010.

Dr. Ruixin Niu will cover the EDICS: SSP, NSP, MLR, SAM, SEN, SPC, and WIN.

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 - EDUCATION:  Dr. Ing., Electrical Eng. and Information Sciences, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 2005 M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2001 Dipl. Ing., Electrical Engineering, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany,1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:  Assistant Professor, Elect. Eng., Technische. Universität Darmstadt, Germany, 2010- present Senior Research Assistant, Elect. Eng., Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, 2009-2010 Director of the Signal Processing Section, mimoOn GmbH, Duisburg, Germany, 2007-2009 Research Engineer, FAG Industrial Services GmbH, Aachen, Germany, 2005-2007

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Pesavento conducts research in the general area signal processing and communications with current focus on robust adaptive beamforming and signal processing techniques for multi-user communication systems, cognitive radio networks, distributed relaying systems, and sensor networks. He has published 13 journal papers, including 10 in IEEE TSP, IEEE TCOM or IEEE SPL in the last 12 years, and 50 conference papers. He received several Awards including the IEEE Young Authors Best Paper Award of the SAM SPS in 2005 and the Best Paper Award of the CrownCom Conference in 2010.
Dr. Pesavento will cover the EDICS: SSP-SPEC, MDS-SPEC, SAM, SAM-BEAM, SAM-DOAE, SAM-PERF, SPC-BLND, SPC-INTF, SPC-MULT, SPC-CRDS, MSP-MULT

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 - Raviv Raich (S’98–M’04) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1994 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2004, all in electrical engineering. Between 1999 and 2000, he was a researcher with the communications team, Industrial Research, Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand. From 2004 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since fall 2007, he has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis. His primary research interests are in statistical signal processing and machine learning with a specific focus on manifold learning, probabilistic and graphical models, non-parametric statistics, and sparse signal reconstruction. He has also worked on signal processing for communications and array signal processing. Raich is serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He is a member of the IEEE-SPS Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee.

Brief Bio - Ignacio Santamaria (M’96, SM’05) received his Telecommunication Engineer Degree and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain in 1991 and 1995, respectively. In 1992 he joined the Department of Communications Engineering, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain, where he is a Full Professor since 2007. His research interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing, signal processing for wireless communications and machine learning. He has published 4 book chapters, more than 50 journal and over 100 conference publications on these topics. Further, he has been involved as principal investigator on a number of national and EU funded projects. He was co-recipient of the EEEfcom innovation award 2008 sponsored by Agilent and Rhode & Schwarz. Dr. Santamaria is a Senior Member of IEEE and has served as a program committee member for various signal processing conferences. Since 2009 he serves as a member of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP-TC).

Brief Bio - Peter Schreier is Professor and Head of the Signal and System Theory Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Universität Paderborn, Germany.

He was born in Munich, Germany, in 1975. He received a Master of Science from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, in 1999, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, in 2003, both in electrical engineering. 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 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. From 2004 until January 2011, he was on the faculty of the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Focus: Statistical signal processing

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 - Nicholas Sidiropoulos (Fellow, IEEE) received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland - College Park, in 1988, 1990 and 1992, respectively. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow (1994-1995) and Research Scientist (1996-1997) at the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland; Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia (1997-1999); Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Minneapolis (2000-2002); Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, Chania - Crete, Greece (2002-2011); and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Minneapolis (2011-). His current research interests are primarily in signal processing for communications, cross-layer wireless networking, convex optimization / approximation, and multi-way analysis / multi-linear algebra. He received the NSF/CAREER award in 1998, the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Best Paper Award in 2001 and 2007, served as IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer (2008-2009), and as Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (2007-2008). He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2000 - 2006), IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2000 - 2002), Elsevier's Signal Processing (2009 -), and on the editorial board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2009-2011). He also served as TPC Chair for IEEE CAMSAP 2005 and IEEE SAM 2008, as General co-Chair for IEEE CAMSAP 2007, and on the organizing committees for IEEE ICASSP 2011 in Prague and ICASSP 2015 in Brisbane. He received the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award.

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 - H. C. So (S’90–M’95–SM’07) was born in Hong Kong. He received the B.Eng. degree from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and the Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), both in electronic engineering, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. From 1990 to 1991, he was an Electronic Engineer at the Research & Development Division of Everex Systems Engineering Ltd., Hong Kong. During 1995–1996, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at CUHK. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, CityU, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include statistical signal processing, fast and adaptive algorithms, signal detection, parameter estimation, and source localization. More information can be found at http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~hcso.

Focus: Statistical signal processing, spectral analysis, source localization

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 - Joseph Tabrikian (S’89–M’97–SM’98) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1986, 1992, and 1997, respectively. During 1996–1998 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC as an Assistant Research Professor. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. His research interests include estimation and detection theory and array signal processing.

Dr. Tabrikian served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing during 2001–2004, and he is a member of the IEEE SAM technical committee. He was the technical program co-chair of the SAM 2010 workshop.

Brief Bio - Petr Tichavsky (M'98, SM'04) received the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1987 from the CzechTechnical University, Prague, Czechoslovakia and the Ph.D. degrese in theoretical cybernetics from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1992. Since that time he is with the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. In 1994 he received the Fulbright grant for a 10 month fellowship at Yale University, Department of Electrical Engineering, in New Haven, U.S.A. In 2002 he received the Otto Wichterle Award from Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

He has served on the IEEE Signal Processing Theory & Methods Technical Committee for six years, and is currently a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Board and a member of the European Signal Processing Society Best Paper Awards Selection Panel. He has also served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing for two previous terms over the periods 1997-1999 and 2004-2007.

He is author and co-author of research papers in the area of sinusoidal frequency/frequency-rate estimation, adaptive filtering and tracking of time varying signal parameters, algorithm-independent bounds on achievable performance, sensor array processing, independent component analysis and blind signal separation.

Petr Tichavsky served as associate editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2002 to 2004, and as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009 he is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee. Petr Tichavsky also serves as a general chair of the 36th IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Brief Bio - Trac D. Tran S'94-M'98-SM’08 received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1998, all in Electrical Engineering.

In July of 1998, Dr. Tran joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, where he currently holds the rank of Associate Professor. His research interests are in the field of digital signal processing, particularly in sparse representation, sparse recovery, sampling, multi-rate systems, filter banks, transforms, wavelets, and their applications in signal analysis, compression, processing, and communications. His pioneering research on integer-coefficient transforms and pre-/post-filtering operators has been adopted as critical components of Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 and JPEG XR – the latest international still-image compression standard ISO/IEC 29199-2.

Dr. Tran was the co-director (with Prof. J. L. Prince) of the 33rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS'99), Baltimore, MD, in March 1999. In the summer of 2002, he was an ASEE/ONR Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Air Warfare Center – Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at China Lake, California. He is currently a regular consultant for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. Dr. Tran has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing as well as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He was a former member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM TC) and is a current member of the IEEE Image Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP) Technical Committee.

Dr. Tran received the NSF CAREER award in 2001, the William H. Huggins Excellence in Teaching Award from The Johns Hopkins University in 2007, and the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising in 2009.

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 - 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 - Francesco Verde was born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy, on June 12, 1974. He received the Dr. Eng. degree summa cum laude in electronic engineering in 1998 from the Second University of Napoli, and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering in 2002, from the University of Napoli Federico II. Since 2002, he has been an Assistant Professor of Signal Theory with the Department of Biomedical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II. He also held teaching positions at the Second University of Napoli. His research activities lie in the broad area of statistical signal processing, digital communications, and communication systems. In particular, his current interests include cyclostationarity-based techniques for blind identification, equalization and interference suppression for narrowband modulation systems, code-division multiple-access systems, multicarrier modulation systems, and space-time processing for cooperative communications systems.

Brief Bio - Josep Vidal received the Telecommunication Engineering and the Ph. D. degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in 1989 and 1993, respectively. In 1989 he joined the TULTS at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland as a research assistant. In 1991 he became recipient of a Ministry of Education grant to complete the Ph. D. thesis and joined the Signal Theory and Communications Dept. at UPC. He was awarded the UPC's Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado in 1995 and since December 1996 he is an Associate Professor at UPC where he teaches undergraduate courses in Statistical Signal Processing, Information Theory and Pattern Recognition, areas where he has published over 120 papers in international conferences and journals, as well as five book chapters. Since 2000, he has led UPC participation in the EC-funded projects SATURN, FIREWORKS and WINSOC. He has been the technical and administrative coordinator of the EC projects HTUROMANTIK, ROCKET and FREEDOM (from the EC 6th and 7th framework programme), on cross-layer optimisation aspects of MIMO and relaying communications. He is also member of the board of COST-IC0902 action. In June 1995, he was co-organizer of the IEEE Signal Processing / ATHOS Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics (Begur, Spain) and co-organiser of the IST Mobile Communications Summit 2001, (Sitges, Spain) in September 2001. He has served as guest co-editor of special issues in Signal Processing (EURASIP). Dr Vidal has been visiting scholar at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (1992), Ecole Nationale Polytechnique de Toulouse (2006) and University of Hawaii (2007). He is also Honorary Professor at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas.

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 - 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 - Zhiyuan Yan (S’00-M’03-SM’08) received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1995 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1999 and 2003, respectively.

During summer 2000 and 2002, He was a Research Intern with Nokia Research Center, Irving, Texas. In August 2003, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Lehigh University, where he is an Assistant Professor. His current research interests are in coding theory, signal processing, wireless communications and VLSI implementations of communication and signal processing systems, and he has published over 70 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Yan served as a Technical Program Committee Co-Chair and a General Co-Chair for ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI in 2007 and 2008, respectively. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters and the Journal of Signal Processing Systems. He is also a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2011.

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 - EDUCATION:
Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xian, P. R. China, 1999
M.Sc., Mathematics, Northwest University, Xian, P. R. China, 1988
B.Sc., Mathematics, Shaanxi Normal University, P. R. China, 1983
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, 2007-now

Dr. Zhang conducts research in the general area of signal processing, digital communication, signal detection and estimation, wavelet and time-frequency analysis, mainly emphasizing mathematics-based new technology innovation and exploration for a variety of signal processing and practical applications. He currently focuses on transceiver designs for multi-user communication systems, coherent and noncoherent space-time signal and receiver designs, and channel capacity for MIMO and cooperative relay communications.

He has over 49 refereed journal articles published and accepted, including 11 IEEE TSP in the last 11 years, and 34 conference papers. He is the co-author of the paper that received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Young Author Award in 2008.

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.