• Xiaoyu Wang, Cofounder & Chief Scientist, Intellifusion Technologies

It is with great sadness that we report that Professor Sadaoki Furui passed away on July 31, 2022. He was the founding President of APSIPA serving from 2009 to 2012. He was a pioneering researcher in the speech area, an inspirational leader, and a close friend to many of us. He was instrumental in helping to establish and provided distinguished leadership to APSIPA. We will all greatly miss him. The next APSIPA newsletter will have a memorial article dedicated to Prof. Furui and at this year’s APSIPA ASC in Chiang Mai, Thailand we will have a special event and sessions to celebrate his life and achievements.

• Ronald Chang , Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Fei Chen , Southern University of Science and Technology, China
• Yuchao Dai , Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
• Kazunori Hayashi, Kyoto University, Japan
• Yipeng Liu , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
• Zhanyu Ma , Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China
• Simon Pun , Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Shang-Ho Tsai , National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Kyoto University, Japan

• Yoshinobu Kajikawa (2022-2024)
• Kenneth Lam (2022-2024)
• Sanghoon Lee (2022-2024)
• KokSheik Wong (2022-2024)

• Kosin Chamnongthai is elected as the VP - Conferences (2022-2023)
• Seishi Takamura is elected as the VP - Industrial Relations and Development (2022-2023)
• Ning Xu is elected as the Deputy VP - Industrial Relations and Development (2022-2023)
• Toshihisa Tanaka is elected as the VP - Member Relations and Development (2022-2023)
• Woon-Seng Gan is elected as the VP - Publications (2022-2023)

• The 6th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2021 to Hiroshi Sawada, Nobutaka Ono, Hirokazu Kameoka, Daichi Kitamura, Hiroshi Saruwatari, for their paper " A review of blind source separation methods: two converging routes to ILRMA originating from ICA and NMF".