Professor Sayed has been voted to serve as President-Elect of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the two-year period Jan 2016 through Dec 2017. The position of President-Elect automatically succeeds to President for the two-year period Jan 2018 through Dec 2019. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is the first technical society established by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the world’s premier international organization for signal processing scientists and professionals since 1948. It is also one of the largest IEEE societies with close to 18K members worldwide, 160+ US and international chapters,15+ wholly-owned and jointly-published journals, and several conferences, workshops, and seasonal schools.