Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani, SPCRC, is the Chair of Communications and Signal Processing Society Joint Chapter of IEEE Hyderabad Section. IEEE Signal Processing Society Hyderabad Chapter has been selected as the recipient of the SPS Chapter of the Year Award for 2019. Dr. Lalitha will be receiving this award on behalf of the chapter in ICASSP 2020, Barcelona from the incoming Signal Processing Society President Ahmed Tewfik.
In the words of Dr. Lalitha, “We are very happy to receive the prestigious award. On behalf of the chapter, we would like to thank the Signal Processing Society for recognizing our volunteering activities. The goal of the chapter has been to bring together academicians, industry, and students with similar technical/research interests in the area of signal processing and communications. The following are some of the salient aspects of chapter activities:
Flagship Lecture: We organize a flagship event known as Alexander Graham Bell Memorial Lecture every year and invite an eminent researcher to speak.
HyWIT Workshop Series: Also, we have started organizing a workshop series, where we invite speakers from premiere institutions in the country to give half-day tutorial on cutting edge research areas. Each year, the workshop comprises of eight half-day lectures spread over two weekends to enhance industry participation. We received support from Signal Processing society for organizing the workshop under chapter driven initiative for two consecutive years. 2019 edition of HyWIT focused on sparse signal processing and applications. We received very good feedback about the workshop series, especially from researchers working in the areas.
Initiatives to Increase Participation and Membership: We organize events of interest to diverse audience and also in geographically diverse locations. These include workshop on basics of signal processing in All India student congress and also sessions highlighting benefits of joining SPS.
Thanks to the highly committed team of volunteers who have participated in various ways to make the chapter vibrant. We also look forward to coming up with more innovative activities in the future.”