Fernando Pereira, IT researcher and an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, was recently elected Vice-President-Conferences of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) for the term 2018-2020.

With an history of almost 70 years, the SPS is the IEEE´s first founded society. From signal processing engineers, academics, industry professionals and students, the SPS community features today more than 19,000 members, spanning 100 countries worldwide.

This is another international recognition at the highest level for Fernando Pereira who, among other, is an IEEE Fellow since 2008, an EURASIP Fellow since 2014, an IET Fellow since 2015 and JPEG Requirements Chair since 2016.