EURASIP BoD elections 2024
EURASIP is managed by a Board of Directors that is elected by the members. The EURASIP General Assembly confirms the election results and appointments. All elected Board members serve a three-year term, renewable once.
On December 31st, 2024, three current Board members will end their term: Augusto Sarti (2nd term), Björn Ottersten (2nd term), and Patrick Naylor (as Past-President). Also, Toon van Waterschoot ends his term as deputy director. As a consequence, three seats become vacant on 1st of January 2025.
Below you can find the biographies of the candidates (in alphabetical order).
The voting tool is available from August 19th, 2024 on the EURASIP membership portal after logging in (in the elections tab). The voter is invited to rank the candidates in the order of preference.
The candidate ranked as first will receive 6 points, the candidate ranked as second will receive 5 points, and so on.
The voter can return to the voting tool to change their vote before the deadline.
Only the last vote submitted before the deadline will be counted.
The voting closes on September 20th, 2024.
The three candidates with the highest number of points will be nominated for being appointed to the Board of Directors by the EURASIP General Assembly.
The results of the election will be communicated to the EURASIP community by newsletter and on this page.
Eduard Jorswieck
Eduard Axel Jorswieck is full professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Physics of TU Braunschweig. He is IEEE Fellow since 2020. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He and his colleagues were also a recipients of the Best Paper Awards and the Best Student Paper Awards from the IEEE CAMSAP 2011, IEEE WCSP 2012, IEEE SPAWC 2012, IEEE ICUFN 2018, PETS 2019, and ISWCS 2019, and IEEE ICC 2024. Since 2017, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. Since 2022, he has been on the editorial board of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS. Since 2024, he has been an Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY. He was on the editorial boards of the IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY. He received the 2019 outstanding editorial board award from the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
Eduard has been general, technical program chair, and organising committee member of many international conferences of the last 15 years. Most recently, he was general co-chair of the ITG Workshop Smart Antennas / Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding in 2023 in Braunschweig, and ISWCS 2021 in Berlin. He will be general co-chair of the ISWCS 2025 in Braunschweig, tutorial chair for IEEE Globecom 2025, and EUCnC 2025 PHY Co-Track Chair. He has contributed as guest editor to several special issues in IEEE Journals. Most recently, he was guest editor in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications for Advanced Optimization Theory and Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Communication Networks (2024) and in IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing on Distributed Signal Processing for Extremely Large-Scale Antenna Array Systems (2025).
His general interests are in signal processing for communications and networking, applied information theory and communication theory. His research interests include multiple antenna communications, wireless interference networks, reliability and resilience, and physical layer security. He has published more than 180 journal articles, 17 book chapters, one book, four monographs, and some 300 conference papers.
Eva Langunas
Eva Lagunas received the MSc and PhD degrees in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. She was Research Assistant within the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC, from 2009 to 2013. In 2009 she was a guest research assistant within the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy. From November 2011 to May 2012, she held a visiting research appointment at the Center for Advanced Communications (CAC), Villanova University, PA, USA. Between 2022-2023, she spent 6 months at Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain. In 2014, she joined the Signal Processing and Communications (SIGCOM) group at Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, where she currently holds a Research Scientist position.
She has been associate editor of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP) and associate editor of IEEE Communications Letters. She has been member of EURASIP Technical Area Committees (TAC) onTheoretical and Methodological Trends in Signal Processing between 2019-2024.
Her research interests focus on general wireless networks optimization, with emphasis on radio resource management, beamforming design, user scheduling and interference management. She strongly contributes to the non-terrestrial networks research activities by leading national and international research projects. She is lead editor of the IET book “Non-Geostationary Satellite Communications Systems”, and she has co-authored several book chapters, more than 65 journals and 130 conference papers.
Geert Leus
Geert Leus received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in June 1996 and May 2000, respectively. Geert Leus is now an “Antoni van Leeuwenhoek” Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests are in the broad area of signal processing, with a specific focus on wireless communications, array processing, sensor networks, and graph signal processing.
Geert Leus received the 2021 EURASIP Individual Technical Achievement Award, a 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and a 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of EURASIP. Geert Leus was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee, the Chair of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems, a Member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee, a Member of the IEEE Big Data Special Interest Group, a Member of the EURASIP Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Special Area Team, the Editor in Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and the Editor in Chief of EURASIP Signal Processing.
He was also on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. Currently, he is a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee and an Associate Editor of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing.
Gerald Matz
Gerald Matz is Full Professor for Machine Learning in Telecommunications with the Institute of Telecommunications at TU Wien (Austria). He received the Dr. techn. degree in Electrical Engineering from TU Wien in 2000 and the Habilitation degree for Communication Systems from the same institution in 2004. In 2004-2005 he was an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow with Supélec (France). He was a Visiting Researcher with ETH Zurich (Switzerland, 2007) and ENSEEIHT (Toulouse, France, 2011).
Prof. Matz has directed numerous research projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), by the Viennese Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), and by the European Union. He has published 220+ articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. He is co-editor of the book Wireless Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels (New York: Academic, 2011). His research interests include signal and information processing, information and communication theory, and machine learning.
Prof. Matz was a member of the IEEE SPS Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods (2010-2015) and of the IEEE SPS Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (2008-2013). Since 2023 he has been a member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee for Signal Processing in Communications and Networking. He currently serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. Signal Processing and he was Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. Information Theory (2013-2016), of the IEEE Trans. Signal Processing (2006-2010), of EURASIP’s Signal Processing (2007-2010), and of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2004-2008). He was Technical Chair (2016) and General Chair (2019) of the Asilomar SSC Conference and Technical Program Co-Chair of EUSIPCO 2004. He has been on the Technical Program Committee of numerous international conferences. In 2006 he received the Kardinal Innitzer Most Promising Young Investigator Award and in 2023 he was elevated to IEEE Fellow.
Xavier Mestre
Xavier Mestre received the Master and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 1997 and 2002 respectively and the licenciate (5 year) degree in Mathematics in 2011. During the pursuit of his PhD, he was recipient of a 1998-2001 PhD scholarship (granted by the Catalan Government) and was awarded the 2002 Rosina Ribalta second prize for the best doctoral thesis project within areas of Information Technologies and Communications by the Epson Iberica foundation.
From January 1998 to December 2002, he was with UPC’s Communications Signal Processing Group, where he worked as a Research Assistant (1998-2000) and Research Associate (2001-2002). In January 2003 he joined the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), where he currently holds a position as a Senior Research Associate. He has actively participated in 12 European projects, 5 industrial contracts, two ESA contracts and 7 projects funded by the Spanish Government. He is author of three granted patents owned by CTTC and one patent owned by Huawei Technologies. He is co-author of the 2020 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Best Paper Award and the 2021 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Best Paper Award. Since 2017 he has been adjunct lecturer at the Engineering Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
He has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing for two terms (2008-11, 2015-2019), Senior Area Editor of the same journal (2019-present) and associate co-editor of the special issue on at the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. He is IEEE Senior member and has been elected member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multi-channel Signal Processing Technical Committee (2013-2018), the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (2019-present), the EURASIP Technical Area Committee (TAC) on Signal Processing in Communications (2018-present) and the EURASIP TAC on Theoretical and Methodological Trends in Signal Processing (TMTSP, 2015-2021). He was vice-chair of the TMTSP Technical Area Committee (2019-21) and is current vice-chair of the SPTM (2023-present).
He has participated in the organization of multiple conferences and scientific events, such as the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2018 (general vice-chair), the IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications (technical chair), the European Wireless 2014 (general co-chair), the European Signal Processing Conference 2011 (technical chair), the IEEE Winter School on Information Theory 2011 (general co-chair). He was general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2020 and will also be general chair of the 2026 edition of this conference.
Tirza Routtenberg
Tirza Routtenberg is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She received her B.Sc. degree from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 2005, and her MSc and PhD in electrical and computer engineering in 2007 and 2012, respectively, from Ben-Gurion University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, from 2012 to 2014. Since October 2014, she has been a faculty member at Ben-Gurion University. In 2022–2023, she was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.
She has received several awards, including the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in 2011, the IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP) in 2013 (coauthor), ICASSP in 2017 (coauthor), and the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP) in 2018 (coauthor). She was also awarded the Negev scholarship in 2008, the Lev-Zion scholarship in 2010, the Marc Rich Foundation Prize in 2011, and the Toronto Prize for Excellence in Research in 2021.
From 2019 to 2023, she was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing Over Networks. She is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, a Subject Editor (Senior-area Chair) for Signal Processing ELSEVIER, and a Guest Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. She has been a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (2018-2023) and the SPS Education Center Editorial Board on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education since 2022. She has also been a member of the Steering Committee of the international IEEE SPS Mentoring Experiences for Underrepresented Young Researchers (ME-UYR) since 2021 and a member of the IEEE SPS Education Board (2023-2025). She was the Publication co-chair of EUSIPCO 2022 in Belgrade and the Tutorial Chair of IEEE SAM 2022 in Trondheim.
Her general interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing, estimation and detection theory, graph signal processing, and smart grids. In particular, her current research interests include statistical signal processing for smart grids, graph signal processing with applications to power systems, integrated sensing and communications, advanced estimation and detection methods under constraints, the development of estimation performance bounds, and selective inference.