January 18, 2013
University Professor of Engineering
José M. F. Moura has earned the
IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2012 SPS Society Award for outstanding technical contributions and leadership in signal processing.
Presented annually, the Society Award honors outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the Signal Processing Society and outstanding leadership within that field, as evidenced by publications, patents, books and lectures. This year's prize, which includes a cash award, plaque and certificate, will be presented in May at the
38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Vancouver.
Moura, who is also a professor of
biomedical engineering and director of the
Carnegie Mellon | Portugal program, specializes in statistical signal and image processing. He is an IEEE fellow, an AAAS fellow and a corresponding member of the Academia das Ciências of Portugal. In 2010, he received the
IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing.
