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.
| Speaker: Waleed H. Abdulla, The University of Auckland Title: Audio Watermarking for Digital Media Copyrights Protection Time: 9 December 2016 Venue: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul |
According to APSIPA Bylaws, BoG Members are elected by direct vote of the voting Members of the Association. One third of BoG Members will be elected annually. Current BoG Members who are completing their first term can stand for second term re-election. In 2015, 6 BoG Members will complete their term of service 2013-2015. APSIPA now calls for nomination of BoG Members from all members of the Association. We will elect 6 BoG Members, the four nominees who receive the highest number of votes will serve for a term of 3 years (2016-2018) while the next two will serve for a term of 1 year (2016).
The Board would like to take this opportunity to thank Kiyoharu Aizawa and Anthony Kuh who have served as BoG Members for two terms. They will retire as BoG Members by end of 2015. The Board would also like to thank Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, Homer Chen, Hsueh-Ming Hang and Tomoaki Ohtsuki for having served as BoG Members for their first term. They are eligible for re-election.
Please submit your nomination form to the Secretary Bonnie Law at email: ennflaw@polyu.edu.hk by 15 November 2015. The election is supervised by the Award and Election Committee chaired by the Past-President Prof. C.C. Jay Kuo. The nominees must be members of the Association who have agreed to serve if elected. Next is the timeline of election.
1) Nomination Period: 11/1-11/15
2) Election Period: 11/16-11/30
3) Announcement: 11/30
By nominating a candidate, you can help APSIPA to continue to advance its mission to promote broad spectrum of research and education activities in signal and information processing in Asia Pacific. With a strategic plan and many new initiatives on the horizon, APSIPA needs and welcomes the enthusiastic participation of its members to become BoG Members to lead the efforts.
(Please click here to download nominations form)