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Professional Leadership Experiences

Professional Leadership Experiences

K. J. Ray Liu
  • 2022 IEEE President and CEO, President-Elect 2021; Past President 2023, in charge of the largest professional organization in the world with 420,000 members worldwide and about $550M annual revenue with about 2000 conferences and 200 journals.
  • IEEE Vice President - Technical Activities, in charge of about fifty societies/councils in IEEE, VP-Elect 2018; VP 2019; Past VP 2020.
  • IEEE Board of Director - Division IX Director, representing IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society; IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society; IEEE Information Theory Society; IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society; IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society; IEEE Signal Processing Society; IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2016-2017 (Director-Elect 2015).
  • Past President, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2014-2015.
  • President, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2012-2013.
  • President-Elect, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2010-2011.
  • Co-Founder, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), 2007-2009.
  • Vice President - Publication, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2006-2008 (in charge of a portfolio of SPS journals and the management of editor-in-chiefs and their editorial boards).
  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2003-2005 (Introduced new management system and features that significantly improve the scope and content appealing to broader readership, and undertook the leadership to reach the top-ranked Thomson JCI citation impact out of more than 200 journals in the electrical and electronic area).
  • Founding Editor-in-Chief, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2000-2002. (provided the vision of special issue oriented journal and led EURASIP JASP to become a highly respected, leading journal for signal processing and communications research in less than two years.)
  • Prime architect and proposer of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing, (based on the proposal developed in 1997), 2005.
  • Prime architect and proposer of IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, 2004.
  • Board of Governor, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2004 - present.
  • Prime architect and founding member, Asian-Pacific Association of Signal and Information Processing, 2007.
  • General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, 2007.
  • Co-General Chair, First APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Sapporo, 2009.
  • General Chair, IEEE International workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, Newport, May 2005.
  • Chair, Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, March, 1999 - Dec. 2001.
  • Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Baltimore, Aug. 2003.
  • Series Editor, EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications, Hindawi, 2003 - 2005.
  • Senior Advisory Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Hindawi, 2002 - 2005.