Section Editors
Section 1
Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland—College Park, in 1988, 1990 and 1992, respectively. He has served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia (1997–1999); Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota—Minneapolis (2000–2002); Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, Chania—Crete, Greece (2002–2011); and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota—Minneapolis (2011–). His research interests are in signal processing for communications, convex optimization, cross-layer resource allocation for wireless networks, and multiway analysis—i.e., linear algebra for data arrays indexed by three or more variables. His current research focuses primarily on signal and tensor analytics, with applications in cognitive radio, big data, and preference measurement. He received the NSF/CAREER award in 1998, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Best Paper Award in 2001, 2007, and 2011. He served as IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer (2008–2009), and as Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (2007–2008). He received the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Section 2
Fulvio Gini (Fellow, IEEE) received the Doctor Engineer (cum laude) and the Research Doctor degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. In 1993 he joined the Department of Ingegneria dell’Informazione of the University of Pisa, where he became Associate Professor in 2000 and he is Full Professor since 2006. From July 1996 through January 1997, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and for the Elsevier Signal Processing journal. He has been AE for the Transactions on Signal Processing (2000–2006) and a Member of the EURASIP JASP Editorial Board. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Hindawi International Journal on Navigation and Observation (IJNO. He has been the Area Editor for the Special issues of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He was co-recipient of the 2001 IEEE AES Society’s Barry Carlton Award for Best Paper. He was recipient of the 2003 IEE Achievement Award for outstanding contribution in signal processing and of the 2003 IEEE AES Society Nathanson Award to the Young Engineer of the Year. He is a Member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and he has been a Member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) TC. He is a Member of the Board of Directors (BoD) of the EURASIP Society and the Award Chair since 2006 and he is the EURASIP President elected for the years 2013–2014. He was the Technical co-Chair of the 2006 EURASIP Signal and Image Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, September 2006, and the Technical co-Chair of the 2008 Radar Conference, Rome, Italy, May 2008. He was the General co-Chair of the second Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP2010) and the General co-Chair of the forthcoming ICASSP2014, to be held in Florence in May 2014. He was the guest co-editor of the special section of the Journal of the IEEE SP Society on Special Topics in Signal Processing on “Adaptive Waveform Design for Agile Sensing and Communication” (2007), guest editor of the special section of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on “Knowledge Based Systems for Adaptive Radar Detection, Tracking and Classification” (2006), guest co-editor of the two special issues of the EURASIP Signal Processing journal on “New trends and findings in antenna array processing for radar” (2004) and on “Advances in Sensor Array Processing (in memory of Alex Gershman)” (2013). He is co-editor and author of the book ”Knowledge Based Radar Detection, Tracking and Classification” (2008) and of the book “Waveform Diversity and Design” (2012). His research interests include modeling and statistical analysis of radar clutter data, non-Gaussian signal detection and estimation, parameter estimation and data extraction from multichannel interferometric SAR data. He authored or co-authored 5 book chapters, more than 100 journal papers and about 120 conference papers.