Professional Activities

Professional Experience:

• Chair, SPCOM Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2009-2012

• Member, SPTM Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2006-2009

• Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2000-2004); Mathematics of Computation (1999-2004); Management Science (2011-2013); Mathematics of Operations Research (2012-2015); IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2009-2012)

• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2012-1014

• Member of IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Selection Committee, 2018-2020

• Member of IEEE SPS Fellow Selection Committee, 2017-2019

• Member of IEEE SPS Awards Board, 2017-2018, 2024-2026

• Chair, Farkas Prize Selection Committee, INFORMS Optimization Society, 2015

• Chair, Selection Committee for the Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship in Continuous Optimization, Mathematical Optimization Society, 2021

Conference Experience

• ICCOPT 2025, technical program committee Chair

• ICASSP 2016, general co-chair; TPC co-chair, IEEE SPAWC workshop, 2010

• Distinguished lecturer, 2006 IEEE SAM workshop

• 2004 ICASSP tutorial lecturer, 2009 ICASSP area overview speaker

• Plenary speaker, 2013 IEEE SPAWC workshop, Darmstadt & 2014 IEEE Comm. Theory Workshop, Curacao; 2024 IEEE PIMRC, Valencia, Spain

• Semi-plenary speaker, the 18th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Copenhagen, Demark, 2003

• Semi-plenary speaker, 2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Gainesville, Florida, US