Professional Service

  • Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Fellow Evaluation Committee, 2020 and 2021. Responsible for coordinating the review and evaluation of about 60 IEEE Fellow nomiantions.
  • Vice President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, responsible for membership services (2017-2019).
  • Associate Editor: IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2000 - 2002); IEEE Transactions Signal Processing (2000 - 2006 & 2012 - 2013); IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Editorial Board (2009 - 2012); Elsevier Signal Processing (2009 - 2013). Guest Editor for Special Issue on Convex Optimization in Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, May 2010.
  • Area Editor: IEEE Transactions Signal Processing (Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2014).
  • Chair: Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC), IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2007 - 2008 (vice-chair, 2005 - 2006).
  • Technical Committee Memberships: Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC), IEEE Signal Processing Society (2000 - 2008). Sensor Array and Multichannel processing Technical Committee (SAM-TC), IEEE Signal Processing Society (2004 - 2009). Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP-TC), IEEE Signal Processing Society (2015 - 2018). Big Data Special Interest Group (Big Data SiG), IEEE Signal Processing Society (2014 - 2018).
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair: IEEE CAMSAP 2005, Dec. 13-15, 2005, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • General Co-Chair (with R. Rao, RIT): IEEE CAMSAP 2007, Dec. 12-14, 2007, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair (with B. Sadler, ARL): IEEE SAM 2008, July 21-23, 2008, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • Organizing Committee (Tutorial Co-Chair & Student Paper Awards Chair): ICASSP 2011, May 22-27, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Special Sessions Chair: DSP 2011, July 6-8, 2011, Corfu, Greece.
  • Special Sessions Co-Chair: SPAWC 2013, June 16-19, 2013, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • Chair: NSF/ECCS Workshop on Big Data: From Signal Processing to Systems Engineering, March 21-22, 2013, Arlington, VA.
  • Organizing Committee (Student Paper Awards Chair): ICASSP 2015, April 19-24, 2015, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  • Organizing Committee (Student Paper Awards Chair): Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 8-11, 2015, Pacific Grove, CA.
  • Organizing Committee (Plenary Co-Chair): ICASSP 2023, June 4-9, 2023, Rhodes, Greece.
  • General Chair: TRICAP 2006 (Cross-Disciplinary Three-Way Analysis Workshop), June 2006, Chania, Crete, Greece.
  • Steering Committee Member and Co-Organizer: TRICAP 2003 (Cross-Disciplinary Three-Way Analysis Workshop), June 22-27, 2003, Lexington, KY; TRICAP 2009, June 14-19, 2009, Vall de Nuria, Spain.
  • Reviewer: Regular reviewer for NSF, ARO, IEEE Transactions on: Signal Processing, Information Theory, Communications, Wireless Communications; IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and IEEE Communications Letters.
  • Technical Program Committee Member: IEEE ICASSP 2000 - 2023; IEEE SPAWC 2003 - 2012; IEEE SAM 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012; IEEE ICIP98, Chicago; IEEE ICIP99, Kobe, Japan.
  • Panel Member: NSF KDI/LIS, NSF SPS/CAREER, NSF/ITR, NSF/COM, NSF/ECCS, Belgian Science Foundation, German Science Foundation, Israeli Science Foundation.