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IEEE volunteer activities, continued
At my first TAB meeting as SPS President, I represented SPS in our Society Review and participated in SPS�s Publication Review. The information gathered was revealing; I later composed educational presentations for incoming SPS officers and for incoming members of the SPS Publications Board.
As SPS President-Elect and President, I fostered creation of two new Technical Committees � one on Bio Image and Signal Processing and one on Information Forensics and Security � that represented two emerging areas of interest to the signal processing community. SPS added two publications, noted earlier. SPS also added workshops on language processing and genomic signal processing � two other areas emerging in the signal processing community.
Overall, I believe I was instrumental in fostering activites and relationships in several new and emerging areas of interest to the changing signal processing community. If elected Division IX Director-Elect, I will foster new activities and relationships in areas of interest to the changing electrical engineering community.
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My experiecne as Finance Chair of ICIP 95 helped prepare me to serve as VP Finance of the Society. There, I developd a sequence of positive budgets - but a roaring stock market did deserve some of the credit. Financially, SPS is in excellent shape.
While on the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) from 2004-05, I served on several TAB FinCom subcommittees.
Strategic Planning
My predecessors as SPS President intiated Long Range Planning (LRP) for the Society. As President-Elect, I forged a stronger connection between SPS's LRP and strategic planning. LRP became a formal respnsibility of the President-Elect and a standing committee was formed to ensure continuity of SPS LRP activities. LRP has helped SPS to focus on longer-term problels and longer-term opportunities.
While on TAB in 2004-05, I participated in the TAB Biotech Council, a pioneering effort to partner with other technical societies on the emerging biotech application area. I am proud of the small part I played on this Council.