Women in Signal Processing Luncheon

Be part of the vibrant dialogue at the IEEE Women in Signal Processing Luncheon! Our gathering will be graced by a distinguished panel of accomplished women in signal processing. Through engaging conversations, these esteemed panelists will generously share their personal journeys and insightful experiences in Signal Processing within the AI era. This luncheon presents an exceptional platform for networking, forging connections, and gaining valuable insights from the remarkable narratives of our esteemed speakers. This is your exclusive opportunity to participate in a dynamic discussion and celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of women in the field of signal processing. Don’t miss this chance to join us and be inspired.

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Panel Discussion on Signal Processing in the AI Era Panelists:

Dr. Jing Dong

Dr. Jing Dong is currently a Full Professor in the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition in the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA). She is a senior member of IEEE. Her research interests include pattern recognition, image processing and image forensics. She has chaired in many major national scientific projects and played a leading role in several national and international technical conferences. She is an associate editor for the  Elsevier 《Journal of Information Security and Applications》and the Editor in Chief for IAPR 《Newsletter》(2019-2022).  She is also the APSIPA Multimedia Security and Forensics (MSF) Technical Committee member (2020-2022), Council member of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG) and the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and the Secretary-General of Women in CSIG. She has been a very active volunteer in IEEE since the year of 2008. She was the founding chair of IEEE University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) Student Branch, the chair of Student Activity Committee of IEEE Beijing Section during 2011-2014, the 2009-2010 IEEE R10 Student sub-Representative (responsible for North-East of R10 zone), the Coordinator of R10 Electronic Communications & Information Management (EEC&IM) Committee during 2011-2012, the Chair of IEEE R10 Women in Engineering Committee during 2017-2018, the Vice Chair of IEEE WIE AG Beijing Section during 2018-2021, the chair of IEEE R10 Humanitarian Technology Activities Committee 2019-2022 the current Chair of IEEE Biometric Council Beijing Chapter, the Chair of IEEE R10 Awards and Recognition Committee, and the IEEE SPS Membership Development Director (2022-2024).

She was awarded with the IBM Faculty Award(2016),  the ICPR Best Scientific Paper Award (2018),  the CAAI Outstanding Individual Member Award (2019), the CSIG Outstanding Female Young Scientist Award (2020) , the CSIG Science and Technology Award (2021)  、the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award (2021) and the CAI Innovation Award (1st Prize,2022) for her excellent contribution for the technical innovation and leadership for the community.

Norliza Mohd Noor, PhD

Norliza Mohd (abbreviated for Mohamed) Noor was a Professor in Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur Campus.  Currently, she is one of the directors at Advanced Technology Solution (ATES) Sdn Bhd.  She received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and Master (by research) and PhD both in Electrical Engineering from UTM.  Her research areas are in machine learning and image analysis for medical and industrial applications.

Sabine Süsstrunk

Sabine Süsstrunk is Full Professor and Director of the Image and Visual Representation Lab in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Her main research areas are in computational photography and imaging, color computer vision, and computational image quality and aesthetics. She received the IS&T/SPIE 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award for her contributions to color imaging, computational photography, and image quality, and the 2018 IS&T Raymond C. Bowman and the 2020 EPFL AGEPoly IC Polysphere Awards for excellence in teaching. Sabine is a Fellow of IEEE and IS&T, and President of the Swiss Science Council (SSC).

Dr. Sonali Agarwal

Dr. Sonali Agarwal is working as an Associate Professor in the Information Technology Department of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad, India. She received her Ph. D. Degree at IIIT Allahabad and joined as faculty at IIIT Allahabad, where she is teaching since October 2009. She holds Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Bhilai Institute of Technology, Bhilai, (C.G.) India and Masters of Engineering (M.E.) degree in Computer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, India Her main research interests are in the areas of Big Data, Big Data Mining, Complex Event Processing System, Support Vector Machines, Stream Analytics and Software Engineering. She is having hands on experience on stream computing and complex processing platforms such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink and ESPER. She has focused in the last few years on the research issues in Data Mining application especially in Big Data, Stream Computing and smart cities. She has attended many National and International Conferences/workshops and she has more than 70 research papers in national / international journals and conferences. She has completed her Masters Thesis work at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Liverpool, U.K. during November 1999 to February 2000 under Indo-UK REC Project, a collaboration in between School of Computing & Mathematical Science, LJMU Liverpool UK and Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. She has also taken part in Indo Swiss Joint Research Program (ISJRP) and full financial support was awarded to carry out joint research work and to gain knowledge regarding the recent research and experimental facility/work at EPFL, Switzerland, from December 2011 to January 2012. She has also visited Thailand and Sri-Lanka for attending/organizing international level conference/Workshops. She has also a member of IEEE, ACM, CSI and Supervising three Ph.D. Scholars and several graduate and undergraduate students in Big Data Mining and Stream Analytics domain.