I am a candidate for IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) President-Elect this year.

I am writing to introduce myself and would like to encourage you to vote if you still need to do so.

I have been a long-time IEEE volunteer. I have served as SPS’s inaugural Vice President – Membership (2013-16); IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Editor-in-Chief (2009-11); General Co-Chair of GlobalSIP’17, ICIP’18 and ICASSP’21; IEEE Toronto Section Chair; IEEE EAB-Continuing Education Chair; J.S. Kilby Medal Committee Chair. 

I am a registered professional engineer, a Fellow of IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Engineering Institute of Canada. I have been the Bell Canada Chair in Multimedia at the University of Toronto since 2014. I am currently the Chair of the Machine Intelligence Major at Engineering Science – University of Toronto. In 2016, I have co-founded Medical Cytometrixc Inc.

My campaign material can be found on the following links:

E: kostas.plataniotis@gmail.com

W: www.plataniotis.com

L: https://votekostas.my.canva.site/

I appreciate your support in the election and your help in encouraging your colleagues and graduate students who are IEEE SPS members to vote.

Online vote for IEEE SPS members is at: https://eballot4.votenet.com/IEEE. 

With kind regards,

Kostas Plataniotis