VOTING BEGINS ON 6 FEBRUARY 2025
K.V.S. Hari is the Director of the Centre for Brain Research and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
He specializes in Signal Processing with applications to wireless communications, integrated sensing and communication, healthcare, and neuroscience.
Hari is well-positioned to lead the society and drive its mission forward with over 30 years of experience as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. His commitment to expand the SPS membership base resulted in a significant increase in SPS membership in R10 (increased from 4491 in 2017 to 6154 in 2019) during his tenure as R10 SPS Regional Director-at-Large. He continued his energetic efforts as SPS Vice President-Membership, triggering a similar growth across all regions by leading special initiatives for students, women, and industry professionals, in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
His stupendous efforts contributed to a few landmark moments for SPS:
• 20,000 members during the 75th anniversary of SPS in 2023.
• More than 200 SPS student branch chapters globally.
• First ICASSP in India to be held in Hyderabad during 6-11 April 2025.
• Launch of SPS Student Scholarship Program.
His service to SPS has also included being a member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee and Signal and Array Processing Methods (SAM) Technical Committee. His leadership qualities have been recognised by IEEE MGA which awarded him the 2018 IEEE MGA Leadership Award.
VISION STATEMENT
Strengthen the community that promotes signal processing to advance technology for humanity.
Toward this goal, I pledge to pursue the following objectives:
Enable active engagement of all stakeholders to make SPS a diverse, inclusive, equitable, sustainable and vibrant community.
Expand the community by reaching out to professionals in other disciplines that use signal processing.
Educate the next generation of technologists about the power of signal processing tools.
Embrace new disruptive tools and technology innovations.
Enhance the technical level of conferences and journals to make them the “go-to” destination for researchers, industry professionals and policy makers.
Encourage strong industry-academia relationships that promote innovation.
Empower chapters, technical committees, and industry groups to provide enhanced member benefits at affordable cost.
Engage with the community in an open, transparent, and ethical manner.
The future of signal processing involves embracing new application areas, triggering the development of new theoretical and practical tools, contributing to the body of knowledge and enabling innovation.
The effective education of the next generation signal processing researchers and practitioners is critical for rapid creation and deployment of emerging technologies. SPS must play a key role in accelerating the pace of continuing education, at scale. My priority will be to enable access to curated multimedia education content by leveraging the talented SPS educator community in academia and industry, and to empower SPS chapters to organize educational events, for students of all ages and preparation, with active collaboration between industry and academia to address problems with local context.
Excellence in SP research is vital. Organizing affordable, inclusive, accessible, sustainable, and joyous conferences is imperative. SPS journals need to be the destination of highest quality work and policies for quick reviewing and affordability will be put in place.
Innovation is key and disruptive ideas will be encouraged in all SPS activities to create breakthroughs in technology solutions for challenging problems of relevance to humanity. An annual networking event inviting thought leaders, futurists, distinguished academicians, smart innovators and funding agencies will be organized to create a vibrant community that will shape the technology landscape of the future.
Standardization is vital for the rapid adoption of technologies and a framework to organize workshops on standardization with the active involvement of standards bodies, industry practitioners and academia at SPS chapters, and conferences will be established.
Diversity, equity and Inclusion are important cornerstones of our Society and I will support and enhance processes to imbibe and ingrain this ethos in our volunteers and staff. We will make SPS an inviting place for women, underrepresented groups, and others to express freely and to pursue excellence joyfully!
My substantial experience as a volunteer in different positions in my professional career and in the IEEE and SPS have prepared me to take this global responsibility of propelling the society to new heights. We will do this as a team and in the spirit of service to “be good and do good”.