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2013 Roster (v: indicates voting member of BoG) Officers Gerhard Kramer President v First Vice President v Michelle Effros Second Vice President v Edmund Yeh Secretary v Aylin Yener Treasurer v Muriel M´edard Junior Past President v Giuseppe Caire Senior Past President v

Governors Until End of Nicholas Laneman 2013 v Amin Shokrollahi 2013 v 2013 v Alexander Vardy 2013 v Emanuele Viterbo 2013 v Urbashi Mitra 2014 v 2014 v Paul Siegel 2014 v Sergio Verd´u 2014 v Jeff Andrews 2015 v Michael Honig 2015 v P. Vijay Kumar 2015 v Emina Soljanin 2015 v R¨udigerUrbanke 2015 v Ram Zamir 2015 v Other Voting Members of BoG

Helmut B¨olcskei IT Transactions Editor-in-Chief (until June) v Yiannis Kontoyiannis IT Transactions Editor-in-Chief (from July) v Elza Erkip Chair, Conference Committee v

total number of voting members: 24 quorum: 13

1 Standing Committees

Awards Abbas El Gamal Chair, ex officio 1st VP Michelle Effros ex officio 2nd VP Randall Berry since 2012 Michael Gastpar since 2012 Alex Grant since 2012 Urbashi Mitra since 2012 Emanuele Viterbo since 2012 Aaron Wagner since 2012 Merouane Debbah since 2013 Young-Han Kim since 2013 Vijay Kumar since 2013 Pascal Vontobel since 2013 Andreas Winter since 2013

Aaron D. Wyner Award Selection Gerhard Kramer Chair, ex officio President Muriel M´edard ex officio Junior Past President Rolf Johannesson since 2012 H. Vincent Poor since 2012 Ian Blake since 2013

Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Gerhard Kramer Chair, ex officio President Abbas El Gamal ex officio 1st VP Michelle Effros ex officio 2nd VP Raymond Yeung since 2012 Imre Csisz´ar since 2013 Sol Golomb since 2013 since 2013 Paul Siegel since 2013

Conference Elza Erkip Chair, since 2013 Aylin Yener ex officio Treasurer Paul Siegel since July 2010 Lars Rasmussen since August 2011 Alon Orlitsky since 2013 R¨udigerUrbanke since 2013 Gerhard Kramer for 2013 Abbas El Gamal for 2013

2 Constitution and Bylaws Giuseppe Caire Chair, ex officio Senior PP Muriel M´edard ex officio Junior PP

Fellows Chair, since 2013 Alon Orlitsky since 2011 Thomas Richardson since 2012 Raymond Yeung since 2012 Helmut B¨olcskei since 2013 Andrea Goldsmith since 2013 Ram Zamir since 2013

Membership and Chapters Michelle Effros Chair, ex officio 2nd VP Sae-Young Chung since 2012 Michael Gastpar since 2012 Andrew Thangaraj since 2012 Negar Kiyavesh since 2013 Joerg Kliewer since 2013 Sriram Vishwanath since 2013

Nominations and Appointments Giuseppe Caire Chair, ex officio Senior PP Muriel M´edard ex officio Junior PP David Neuhoff since 2011 David Forney since 2012 since 2013

Online Matthieu Bloch Chair Gerhard Kramer ex officio President Abbas El Gamal ex officio 1st VP J. Nicholas Laneman since 2007 Anand Sarwate since 2007 Amin Mobasher since 2009 Stefan Moser since 2009

3 External Nominations Alon Orlitsky Chair, since 2013 Gerhard Kramer ex officio President Han Vinck since 2012 since 2013 Helmut B¨olcskei since 2013

Outreach Joerg Kliewer Chair and Mentoring Program Coordinator Negar Kiyavash WITHITS Coordinator Elza Erkip for 2013 Bobak Nazer for 2013 Daniela Tuninetti for 2013

Student Sriram Vishwanath Co-Chair, since 2012 Deniz G¨und¨uz Co-Chair, since 2013 Michelle Effros ex officio 2nd VP

Publications Helmut B¨olcskei Chair, Editor-in-Chief (until June 2013) Yiannis Kontoyiannis Chair, Editor-in-Chief (from July 2013) Giuseppe Caire ex officio Senior PP and VP Publications Gerhard Kramer ex officio President Abbas El Gamal ex officio 1st VP Michelle Effros ex officio 2nd VP Tara Javidi Newsletter Editor David Forney Exec. Editorial Board Shlomo Shamai Exec. Editorial Board Alexander Vardy Exec. Editorial Board Sergio Verd´u Exec. Editorial Board Giuseppe Durisi Publications Editor Erdal Arikan Alexei Ashikhmin Coding Techniques Francois Baccelli Communication Networks Jean-Claude Belfiore Coding Theory Ian Blake Complexity and Cryptography Vivek Borkar Communication Networks David Burshtein Coding Techniques Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi Pattern Recognition, Statistical Learning, and Inference Ronald Cramer Complexity and Cryptography Michael Elad Signal Processing Robert Fischer Communications Albert Guillen I Fabregas Communications

4 Dongning Guo Shannon Theory Venkatesan Guruswami Complexity and Cryptography Tor Helleseth Sequences Theory Navin Kashyap Coding Theory Young-Han Kim Shannon Theory Ioannis Kontoyiannis Assoc. Editor At Large Janos K¨orner Shannon Theory Michael Langberg Coding Theory Yingbin Liang Shannon Theory Angel Lozano Communications Yi Ma Signal Processing Gerald Matz Detection and Estimation Ueli Maurer Complexity and Cryptography Olgica Milenkovic Coding Theory Georg Moustakides Detection and Estimation Yasutada Oohama Source Coding Henry Pfister Coding Theory B. Sundar Rajan Coding Theory Venkatesh Saligrama Signal Processing Devavrat Shah Communication Networks Adam Smith Complexity and Cryptography Yossef Steinberg Assoc. Editor At Large Rajesh Sundaresan Communications Antonia Tulino Communications Tomohiko Uyematsu Shannon Theory Aaron Wagner Shannon Theory Tsachy Weissman Shannon Theory Kyeongcheol Yang Sequences Wei Yu Shannon Theory

Extrasocietal Representatives Nicholas J. Laneman IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy John B. Anderson IEEE Press Liaison Andrea Goldsmith ComSoc Liaison Urbashi Mitra SPSoc Liaison Negar Kiyavash Women in Engineering Coordinator Edmund Yeh IEEE SmartGrid ad Hoc Committee liaisons Tony Ephremides IEEE SmartGrid ad Hoc Committee liaisons

5 Distinguished Lecturers Christina Fragouli 2012-2013 Young-Han Kim 2012-2013 Frank Kschischang 2012-2013 Shlomo Shamai 2012-2013 Emre Telatar 2012-2013 Helmut B¨olcskei 2013-2014 Elza Erkip 2013-2014 Muriel M´edard 2013-2014 H. Vincent Poor 2013-2014 R¨udigerUrbanke 2013-2014

Division Directors Jose M.F. Moura Director, Division IX Marina Ruggieri Director-Elect, Division IX

Other Institutional Roles Anthony Ephremides Historian

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