SPS Activity 1:

SPS Activity: IEEE SPS Membership Benefits and Volunteer Opportunities
Room: Room 208, Academic Exchange Center of China Computer Federation
Time: May 24th 15:00-16:00
Presenter: Prof. Kin-Man (Kenneth) Lam

Abstract: In this session, Prof. Lam will present the benefits of SPS membership and highlight the various activities organized by the society for its members. The session will provide valuable insights for students and professionals looking to enhance their careers through active involvement in the Signal Processing Society.

Biography: Prof. Kin-Man Lam received his Associateship in Electronic Engineering with distinction from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (formerly called Hong Kong Polytechnic) in 1986. He won the S.L. Poa Education Foundation Scholarship for overseas studies and was awarded an M.Sc. degree in communication engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, England, in 1987. In August 1993, he undertook a Ph.D. degree program in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia, and won an Australia Postgraduate Award for his studies. He completed his Ph.D. studies in August 1996 and was awarded the IBM Australia Research Student Project Prize.

    From 1990 to 1993, Prof. Lam was a lecturer at the Department of Electronic Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He joined the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University again as an Assistant Professor in October 1996. He became an Associate Professor in 1999 and has been a professor since 2010. Currently, he is also an Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. He was actively involved in professional activities. He has been a member of the organizing committee or program committee of many international conferences. In particular, he was the Secretary of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’03), the Technical Chair of the 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing (ISIMP 2004), a Technical Co-Chair of the 2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2005), a secretary of the 2010 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), a Technical Co-Chair of 2010 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2010), and a General Co-Chair of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications, & Computing (ICSPCC 2012), APSIPA Annual and Summit 2015, and 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo IICME 2017), which were held in Hong Kong in August 2012, December 2015, and July 2017, respectively. Prof. Lam was the Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing between 2006 and 2008. In addition, he was a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Biometric Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. He received an Honorable Mention of the Annual Pattern Recognition Society Award for an outstanding contribution to the Pattern Recognition Journal in 2004. In 2008, he also received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing.

    Prof. Lam was the Director-Student Services and the Director-Membership Services of the IEEE Signal Processing Society between 2012 and 2014, and between 2015 and 2017, respectively. He was also the VP-Member Relations and Development and VP-Publications of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) between 2014 and 2017, and between 2017 and 2021, respectively. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Image Processing between 2009 and 2014, and Digital Signal Processing between 2014 and 2018. He was also an Editor of HKIE Transactions between 2013 and 2018, and an Area Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine between 2015 and 2017. Between 2022 and 2024, he was the Member-at-Large of APSIPA. Currently, he is the IEEE SPS VP-Membership. Prof. Lam serves as a Senior Editorial Board member of APSIPA Trans. on Signal and Information Processing, and an Associate editor of EURASIP International Journal on Image and Video Processing. His current research interests include human face analysis and recognition, image and video processing, computer vision, and 3D reconstruction.

Prof. Kin-Man (Kenneth) Lam

SPS Activity 2:

Panel Discussion: How to write technical papers and making presentations
Room: Room 107, Academic Exchange Center of China Computer Federation
Time: May 25th 14:15-15:15
Presenter: Prof. Haizhou Li, Prof. Jane Z.Wang, and Prof. Min Wu

Abstract: In this session, leading experts and seasoned professionals will share guidelines and insights on writing highquality technical papers and delivering effective presentations. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the structure, style, and clarity required for impactful academic writing, as well as practical tips on how to design and deliver engaging, professional presentations.

SPS Activity 3:

Panel Discussion: The Path to IEEE Senior Member and Fellow Recognition
Room: Room 107, Academic Exchange Center of China Computer Federation
Time: May 25th 15:30-16:30
Presenter: Prof. Haizhou Li, Prof. Jane Z.Wang, and Prof. Min Wu

Abstract: In this session, leading experts and seasoned professionals will share guidelines and personal experiences about the journey to achieving IEEE Senior Member status and the prestigious elevation to IEEE Fellow. It aims to demystify the process and inspire participants to actively pursue these significant career milestones.

Biography: Prof. Haizhou Li received the B.Sc, M.Sc, and Ph.D degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in 1984, 1987, and 1990 respectively. He is now a Presidential Chair Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Dr. Li is also with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.

    Dr. Li has worked on speech and language technology in academia and industry since 1988. He has taught in The University of Hong Kong (1988-1989), South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China (1990-1994), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2006-2016), University of Eastern Finland (2009), and University of New South Wales (since 2011). He was a Visiting Professor at CRIN/INRIA in France (1994-1995). Prior to joining CUHKSZ and NUS, he was a Research Manager in Apple-ISS Research Centre (1996-1998), Research Director of Lernout & Hauspie Asia Pacific (1999-2001), Vice President of InfoTalk Corp. Ltd and General Manager of InfoTalk Technology (Singapore) Pte Ltd (2001-2003), the Principal Scientist and Department Head of Human Language Technology at the Institute for Infocomm Research (2003-2016), and the Research Director of the Institute for Infocomm Research (2014-2016), the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. He co-founded Baidu-I2R Research Centre in Singapore (2012). Dr. Li was known for his technical contributions to several award-winning speech products, such as Apple’s Chinese Dictation Kits for Macintosh (1996) and Lernout & Hauspie's Speech-Pen-Keyboard Text Entry Solution for Asian languages (1999). He was the architect of a series of major technology deployments that include TELEFIQS voice-automated call centre service in Singapore Changi International Airport (2001), voiceprint engine for Lenovo A586 Smartphone (2012), and Baidu Music Search (2013).

    Dr. Li’s research interests include automatic speech recognition, natural language processing and information retrieval. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2015-2018), Associate Editor (2008-2012) and Senior Area Editor (2014-2016) of IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Associate Editor (2012-2013) of ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Computer Speech and Language (2012-2017), Springer International Journal of Social Robotics (2008-2016), and a Member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2013-2015), Awards Board (2021-2023), and Publications Board (2015-2018) of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was the President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, 2015-2017), the President of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA, 2015-2016), the President of the Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society (COLIPS, 2015-2017), the President of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP, 2017-2018). He was the General Chair of ACL 2012, INTERSPEECH 2014, IWSDS 2019, ASRU 2019, the Local Arrangement Chair of SIGIR 2008 and ACL-IJCNLP 2009, and the Technical Program Chair of ISCSLP 1998, APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2010, IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop 2014, and IEEE ChinaSIP 2015. He has been appointed the General Chair of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022) in Singapore.

    Dr. Li was the recipient of National Infocomm Awards 2002, Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2013 and 2015, President’s Technology Award 2013, and MTI Innovation Activist Gold Award 2015 in Singapore. He was named one of the two Nokia Visiting Professors in 2009 by Nokia Foundation, IEEE Fellow in 2014 for leadership in multilingual, speaker and language recognition, ISCA Fellow in 2018 for contributions to multilingual speech information processing, and Bremen Excellence Chair Professor in 2019. Dr. Li is a member of ACL, ACM, and APSIPA.

Prof. Haizhou Li

Biography: Dr. Min Wu received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering and a B.A. degree in economics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 (both with the highest honors), and an M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. She was with NEC Research Institute and Signafy, Inc. Princeton, NJ, in 1998, and with the Media Security Group, Panasonic Information & Networking Laboratories, Princeton, NJ, in 1999. Since Fall 2001, she has been a faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is serving as Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs at the A. James Clark School of Engineering and affiliated with the Institute of Systems Research (ISR).

    At UMD, Dr. Wu leads the Media, Analytics, and Security Team (MAST), with main research interests in information security and forensics, multimedia signal processing, and applications of data science and machine learning for health and IoT. She was elected as IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. She was a founding member of APSIPA and elected to serve on its Board of Governors. She chaired the IEEE Technical Committee on Information Forensics and Security, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. She was elected to serve as President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2024-2025, as the first woman of color to take on this leadership role in the technical society's 75-year history.

Dr. Min Wu

Biography: Prof. Jane Z. Wang has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC since 2004. Dr. Wang received her BSc from Tsinghua University, China, in 1996, with the highest honour, and her MSc and PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2000 and 2002 (under the supervision of Dr. Peter Willett), respectively, all in electrical engineering. While at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Wang received the Outstanding Engineering Doctoral Student Award. She has been a Research Associate of The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and at The Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, working with Dr. K. J. Ray Liu's group.

    She is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE) and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research interests are in the broad areas of signal/image processing and machine learning, with current focuses on digital media and biomedical data analytics. She has published 180+ journal papers and 120+ peer-reviewed conference papers. She has been key Organizing Committee Member for numerous IEEE conferences and workshops (e.g., the co-Technical Chair for ChinaSIP2014, GlobalSIP2017 and ICIP2021, and the co-General Chair of MMSP2018 and DSLW2021). She has been Associate Editor for the IEEE TSP, SPL, TMM, TIFS, TBME, and SPM, and Area Editor of SPM and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE SPL.

Prof. Jane Z. Wang