International Activities

Book Editorial Boards

• Editor in Chief, EURASIP Signal Processing Series, Academic Press.
• Editor in Chief, E-Reference Signal Processing, Elsevier.

Journal Editorial Boards

• Editor in Chief IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2015 - 2017.
• Associate Editor IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2011 - 2014.
• Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2007 - 2011.
• Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems CAS-II, 2007 - 2009.
• Member Editorial Board IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2005 - 2008.
• Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2002 - 2005.
• Member Editorial Board of the (Elsevier) Signal Processing Journal, 1998 - 2008.
• Member Editorial Board of the (EURASIP) Journal on Advances on Signal Processing, 2001 - 2006.
• Member Editorial Board of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2003 - 2009.
• Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 1996 - 1998.

International Conference Organization

• Co-chairman European Signal Processing Conference (EURASIP), Kos, Greece, 2017
• Technical Program Co-Chair ISCCP-2014.
• Technical Program Co-Chair ISCAS-2013.
• Co-Chair, DSP-2011.
• Co-Chair, Cognitive Information Processing, CIP-2010.
• General Co-Chair (and Founder), Cognitive Information Processing, CIP-2008.
• Technical Program Co-Chairman, IEEE ISCAS-2006.
• General Chairman EUSIPCO-98.
• General Co-Chairman IEEE WISP´99.
• Organizing Committee Chairman PARLE-95.

Guest Editor for Special Issues

• Guest Editor Special Issue on Generative and Physics-Informed Artificial Intelligence for Acoustics, Journal of Acoustical Society of America (JASA), 2025.
• Guest Editor Special Issue on Advances in Machine Learning and Deep Networks, IEEE Proceedings, 2021.
• Guest Editor Special Issue on Complex Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
• Guest Editor Special Issue on Complex Systems, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics on Signal Processing.
• Guest Editor Special Issue on Kernel Methods, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
• Guest Editor Special issue on Emerging Machine Learning Techniques in Signal Processing, Journal of Advances on Signal Processing (JASP).
• Guest Editor Special Issue on Adaptive Algorithms and Echo Cancellation, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
• Guest Editor Special Issue on Signal Processing for Broadband Access Systems: Techniques and Implementations, Applied Signal Processing Journal (JASP).

Invited Speaker in Conferences

• Norbert Wiener Lecture, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022.
• Invited Plenary Speaker, Signal Processing Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2021.
• Invited Plenary Speaker, Intl. Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Iran, 2021.
• Invited Plenary Speaker, IFAC Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing (ALCOSP), Caen, France, 2013.
• Invited Plenary Speaker, IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP, Southampton, U.K., 2013.
• Invited Plenary Speaker, 2nd Intl. Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Information Sciences, Xian, China, 2013.
• Invited Keynote Speaker, IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Birmingham, U.K., 2012.
• Invited Tutorial Speaker, International Conference On Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), Vienna, Austria, 2012.
• Invited Keynote Speaker, European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO, Barcelona, Spain, 2011.
• Invited Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Neural Networks, ICANN, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2010.
• Invited Plenary Speaker, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP, Calcun, Mexico, 2008.
• Invited Plenary Speaker, International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
• Invited Plenary Speaker IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, 2002.
• Invited State of the Art Lecturer, IEEE Conference on Instrumentation and Measurement, Budapest, Hungary, 2001.

Activity in International Scientific Organizations

• Vice President (Publications) IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2018-2020.
• Chairman, IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee, 2013 - 2015.
• Member of the Board of Governors (Member-at-Large), IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2011 - 2013.
• Member of the Board of Governors (BOG), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2008 - 2010.
• Chairman (and Founder) of the Signal Analysis and Machine Learning Technical Committee, Intl. Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2006 - 2008.
• Member of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE SP society, 2006 - 2009.
• Treasurer Conference Board, IEEE SP Society, 2006 - 2009.
• Member of the Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE CAS society, 2003 - 2010.
• President of the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP,) 2004 - 2006.
• Adcom Member European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), 1998 - 2008.

Member of Prestigious Awards Committees

• IEEE SPS, Chairman of the Awards Board (2022-2024).
• IEEE SPS Fellows Committee (2014 - 2016).
• IEEE/RSE Maxwell Award Committee (2013 - 2015).
• EURASIP, Chairman of the Fellows Award Committee (2014-2018).
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Best Ph.d thesis Committee Award (2010, 2011).
• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Van Vankelburg Award Committee (2011, 2012).