News

October 2022

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  KAUST M.S./Ph.D. student receives the IEEE Communications Society’s 2022 Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award

  1 min read · Sun, Oct 2 2022

  Awards News Spotlight

  Jia Ye, a M.S./Ph.D. student in the KAUST Communication Theory Lab (CTL) receives the 2022 Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award from the IEEE Communications Society in recognition of her high level of research aptitude in communication theory and engagement in the professional community.

August 2022

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  KAUST students' research wins first place at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 22 2022

  Awards News

  RFICs sensors Antennas

  Hanguang Liao and Yiming Yang from the KAUST IMPACT Lab won first place in the 2022 IEEE AP-S Student Design Contest at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022), held in July in Denver.

July 2022

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  KAUST New Faculty: Yating Wan, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 19 2022

  News

  photonics Optical Wireless Communication Biosensors energy harvesting quantum information processing

  Yating Wan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, joins KAUST as a member of the KAUST Photonics Laboratory from her most recent position as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), U.S.

June 2022

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  Bone formation comes down to the nanowire

  1 min read · Thu, Jun 30 2022

  News

  human health

  Jasmeen Merzaban, Jürgen Kosel and colleagues from their labs developed nanotechnology that accelerates the transition of stem cells into bone and could advance regenerative medicine.
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  KAUST ECE alumnus wins Design Automation Conference Under-40 Innovators Award

  1 min read · Thu, Jun 30 2022

  News

  automation microelectronics

  Former KAUST Sensors Lab researcher Hesham Omran (Ph.D. ’15) has been named as one of the four winners of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022 Under-40 Innovators Award. The award recognizes the top young innovators who have made a significant impact in the field of design and automation of electronics.
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  The 20-year dash: Celebrating the accomplishments of our inspiring in-Kingdom and international female scientists

  1 min read · Mon, Jun 27 2022

  News

  The presence of women in scientific disciplines in the Kingdom has risen from almost zero to 32 percent in just 20 years. KAUST has contributed greatly to the positive trend as a platform for women from Saudi Arabia and all over the world to study and develop their ideas in a modern campus and research environment.
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  Professor Park receives O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award at the 2022 American Control Conference

  1 min read · Sun, Jun 26 2022

  News

  robotics intelligent systems

  Professor Shinkyu Park has been awarded the 2022 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award (Theory) from the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) for his paper investigating a new mathematical framework to study decision making in multi-agent systems.

May 2022

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  Ditching sensors for streamlined control of microdevices

  1 min read · Wed, May 25 2022

  News

  sensors nanofabrication electrical engineering

  Hossein Fariborzi's team has developed a novel miniature microelectromechanical device that avoids the need to use sensors and has significant potential for use in industrial or medical applications.
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  Fiber glow brings more go for underwater communications

  1 min read · Tue, May 24 2022

  News

  communications material science flexible electronics electrical engineering

  KAUST scientists have developed an optical-based wireless network system that has significant potential for faster underwater optical communications.

March 2022

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  KAUST research wins Radar Challenge at the IEEE Radar Conference

  1 min read · Sun, Mar 6 2022

  News

  KAUST M.S. Graduate Rudi Coppola, KAUST Research Scientist Dr. Sajid Ahmed, and KAUST Distinguished Professor Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini won first prize at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Radar Challenge 2021. Their work titled "Road Users Classification Based on Bi-Frame Micro-Doppler with 24-GHz FMCW Radar," presents a case study for a 24 Gigahertz (GHz) frequency modulated continuous wave radar module.
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  Perovskites used to make efficient artificial retina

  1 min read · Wed, Mar 2 2022

  News

  artificial intelligence Computer Vision sensors electrical engineering

  KAUST researchers have built an artificial electronic retina that mimics the behaviour of the eye’s rod retina cells. Their artificial retina can recognise handwritten numbers.

February 2022

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  Learning about robots and coding through play

  1 min read · Wed, Feb 16 2022

  News

  robotics coding Decoding learning

  "Hour of Code,” a worldwide initiative with the scope to teach children the basics of computer science, recently took place at The KAUST School Kindergarten. During Computer Science Education Week, December 5-9, 2021, researchers from the KAUST RISC Lab volunteered to help the children to “demystify” code and grasp their first concepts of robotics.
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  Blocking microgrid cyberattacks to keep the power flowing

  1 min read · Tue, Feb 15 2022

  News

  cybersecurity smart grids resilience Cyber attacks and defenses

  Power grids have become far more complex in recent decades due to energy demands, environmental regulations and small-scale renewable energy systems that turn businesses and individuals into combined consumer-producers. One way to ensure that power supplies remain resilient is to create small groups of sources and loads called microgrids. Microgrids can operate independently of the main grid when required, such as supporting hospitals during natural disasters, for example. As microgrids grow more complex, they require sophisticated computer networks to coordinate, control and distribute

January 2022

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  Smart memory devices that can sense

  1 min read · Wed, Jan 26 2022

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  In-memory computing sensors nanofabrication electrical engineering

  In-memory sensing technology will facilitate electronic systems that are faster, smaller and consume less energy.

December 2021

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  Professor Atif Shamim named IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer

  1 min read · Thu, Dec 16 2021

  Awards News

  Antennas wireless sensors networks

  KAUST Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Atif Shamim has been selected as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) from 2022 to 2024. In his new role, sponsored by the IEEE, Shamim will give lectures to AP-S chapter members on topics of interest and importance to the global AP community.

November 2021

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  KAUST-KFUPM collaboration wins top honors at STC AIoT Hackathon

  1 min read · Mon, Nov 29 2021

  News

  IoT agriculture artificial intelligence drones

  A team composed of KAUST and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) students was one of three winning teams of this year’s Saudi Telecom Company (STC) AIoT (AI & IoT) Hackathon. The KAUST entry, AgriDoctor, a proposed autonomous, sustainable, intelligent agriculture system, was a standout pick for the competition judges from a pool of 110 project submissions and 350 participants.
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  KAUST SENTRY team wins 2021 Cybersecurity Games & Conference Embedded Security Challenge

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 24 2021

  News

  resilience cybersecurity

  The SENTRY Lab team wins the 18th annual CSAW Cybersecurity Games & Conference’s (CSAW '21) Embedded Security Challenge (ESC).
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  Professor Ooi appointed Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 24 2021

  News

  optics photonics

  KAUST Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boon S. Ooi has been appointed Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters beginning January 1, 2022.
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  Professor El-Atab to feature in NEOM “Changemakers” video series

  1 min read · Thu, Nov 4 2021

  News

  solar cells memory devices

  Nazek El-Atab, KAUST assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab, has been recently selected to feature in the upcoming NEOM “Changemakers” video series.
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  Coal product used to create green clean water

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 3 2021

  News

  filtration desalination water resources monitoring

  Compressed blocks of pulverized coal can be used as the basis of sunlight-powered off-grid water purification. The technology is already being progressed by commercial partners toward pilot-scale production of drinking water. Dark-colored materials that strongly soak up sunlight to drive seawater desalination are a long-standing research interest of KAUST's Andrea Fratalocchi. While reading about the economic challenges of ending coal’s use for power generation, Fratalocchi was struck by a novel possible use for coal. “The two ideas clicked together: why don’t we use coal for a new economy in
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  The KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2022 #RobotoKAUST

  1 min read · Tue, Nov 2 2021

  News

  robotics research conference

  Building upon our successful online conference in spring 2021, the KAUST Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Control Lab (RISC Lab) will host the KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2022 (#RobotoKAUST2022) from February 28 until March 2, 2022. The conference will address the most recent trends of robotics application in a range of disciplines.

October 2021

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  The Recordings of the #RobotoKAUST talks are available

  1 min read · Tue, Oct 19 2021

  News

  research conference RobotoKAUST

  The first KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2021, #RobotoKAUST, brought together leading international and in-Kingdom robotics researchers and government and industry representatives from the robotics industry to discuss robotics and its applications. The recordings of the talks are available online! To watch the talks, please visit our website #RobotoKAUST or our KAUST RISC Lab YouTube Channel.
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  Nazek El-Atab appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

  1 min read · Mon, Oct 18 2021

  News

  IoT

  Nazek El-Atab, KAUST assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab, has been recently selected to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
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  Welcoming composite inks into the fold

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 14 2021

  News

  wearables materials science electrical engineering IoT

  A screen-printing approach to creating foldable circuits could make many functional devices easier and cheaper to mass produce.
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  Progressive KAUST communications study awarded at the IEEE SusTech 2021 student poster contest

  1 min read · Wed, Oct 13 2021

  News

  The progressive telecommunications research of KAUST Ph.D. candidate Maurilio Matracia, supervised by postdoctoral fellow Mustafa Kishk and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mohamed-Slim Alouini, has been recently awarded the second-place prize at the IEEE SusTech 2021 student poster contest.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Ioannis Zografopoulos

  1 min read · Wed, Oct 6 2021

  News

  cyber-physical systems embedded systems cybersecurity

  Ioannis Zografopoulos is a Ph.D. student who joined KAUST this fall as a Ph.D. candidate and member of the Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems (SENTRY) Lab under the supervision of Professor Charalambos Konstantinou. Zografopoulos believes that KAUST's renowned faculty, global reputation and research infrastructure make the University the ideal environment for him to develop high-quality, impactful research.
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  Developing the future of digital inclusivity

  1 min read · Tue, Oct 5 2021

  News

  6G Wireless Communications

  The second edition of the KAUST 6G Summit on "Connecting the Unconnected" was recently held online from Tuesday, September 28 to Thursday, September 30, 2021. As part of “The Decade of Digital Inclusion,” a semester-long master class from the Marconi Society, the summit covered the latest research and technological advancements in 6G global connectivity.
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  Airborne antennas to address electro-magnetic fields exposure concerns

  1 min read · Sun, Oct 3 2021

  News

  communications human health electrical engineering

  Movable airborne antennas receiving cellphone signals could reduce EMF exposure while offering higher data transmission speed and using less power.

September 2021

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  CEMSE New Faculty: Nazek El-Atab, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021

  News

  By David Murphy Nazek El-Atab is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab. The former KAUST MMH Labs research scientist originally joined the University in October 2017, having obtained her B.Sc. in computer and communications engineering ('12) from the Hariri Canadian University, Lebanon, and her M.Sc. in microsystems engineering ('14) and Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering ('17) from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE. Her current research focuses on
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  Full color LEDs cut down to size

  1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021

  News

  communications LEDs electrical engineering materials science

  Tiny light-emitting devices that can create all the colors in the rainbow are essential for the next generation of phones and screens.
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  Shaping a 6G future

  1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021

  News

  wireless networks 6G Wireless Communications global connectivity

  This coming decade promises to be yet another revolutionary one in how we communicate. In a world that is only beginning to embrace 5G technology, several scientific institutions, governments, telecom companies, and phone manufacturers worldwide are beginning to research the development possibilities of its successor—6G technology.
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  KAUST Ph.D. student Asrar Damdam named among "Forbes Middle East" 30 Under 30 list of innovators for 2021

  1 min read · Tue, Sep 14 2021

  News

  Forbes ME

  Asrar Damdam, a Ph.d. student based in the KAUST Integrated Circuits and Systems Group (ICS), was recently named amongst the "Forbes Middle East" 30 Under 30 list of innovators for 2021.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Yurii Tsyban

  1 min read · Mon, Sep 6 2021

  News

  Yurii Tsyban is a graduate in metrology and information-measuring technology who joined KAUST in July 2021 from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute."

August 2021

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  Meet KAUST new student: Jin Yu

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 30 2021

  News

  photovoltaics thermoelectric appliances

  Jin Yu is a physics graduate who joined KAUST in July 2021 from Nankai University (NKU), China. Before joining KAUST, Jin worked as an intern at Wake Forest University (WFU), North Carolina, U.S. After completing his studies at WFU, Jin served as a volunteer high school teacher at China Volunteer Association for almost a year.
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  Harnessing the particle-tracking power of the algorithm

  1 min read · Wed, Aug 25 2021

  News

  fluid dynamics visual computing algorithms Computer science

  A simple camera system paired with a sophisticated image-processing algorithm can achieve faster and more accurate reconstructions of particle flow.
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  KAUST Ph.D. student wins 2021 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award

  1 min read · Tue, Aug 17 2021

  News

  sensors IEEE award microwave sensors

  Muhammad Akram Karimi, KAUST Ph.D. student and co-founder of the KAUST-supported startup company Saher Flow Solutions, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in the Field of Sensors – Early Career. The award honors an individual with “outstanding technical contributions within the scope of the IEEE Sensors Council, as documented by publications and patents. It is based on the general quality and originality of contributions.”
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  Meet KAUST new student: Zhengying Lou

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 16 2021

  News

  Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs

  Zhengying Lou is a communication engineering graduate who joined KAUST from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Zhengying first came to KAUST in June 2020 as a visiting student and was instantly impressed by the university’s high academic standards and convenient living environment.
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  Outstanding KAUST research acknowledged by leading photonics journal

  1 min read · Sun, Aug 8 2021

  News

  optics photonics photodetector optical engineering Optical wireless communications radio frequency communication

  KAUST professors Boon Ooi and Osman Bakr and their respective research groups have recently had their collaborative research recognized by one of the major journals for optics and photonics, Light: Science & Applications (LSA). The teams’ paper— titled "High-speed color-converting photodetector with all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals for ultraviolet light communication—" was awarded as an “Outstanding Paper of Light: Science & Applications in 2020.”
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  Divided attention could ease wireless congestion

  1 min read · Sun, Aug 1 2021

  News

  communications artificial intelligence electrical engineering Computer science

  Predicting wireless traffic using artificial intelligence could improve the reliability of future wireless communications.

July 2021

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  Grant award set to boost KAUST student’s efforts to close the digital divide

  1 min read · Mon, Jul 26 2021

  News

  NDA architecture interconnectivity

  A research team featuring KAUST M.S./Ph.D. student Aniq Ur Rahman recently received €5,000 in funding from AlumNode, for their project: “Connecting the Unconnected: A Tool for Digital Inclusion.” Rahman—along with his colleagues Dr. Anish Jindal from the University of Essex, U.K., and Dr. Khac-Hoang Ngo from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden—received the grant for their innovative optimal network deployment architecture (NDA) software aimed at reducing the global digital divide.
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  KAUST researchers attend 70th Lindau Nobel Meeting

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 14 2021

  News

  Each year, young scientists from around the world get the coveted opportunity to learn from Nobel laureates as part of the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Traditionally held in the small German town and island of Lindau, this year's 70th edition of the Lindau Meeting is taking place virtually, June 27-July 2, 2021, on account of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
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  KAUST team power ahead with alternative energy research

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 4 2021

  News

  sensors electrical engineering IoT

  With the continued growth in Internet of Things applications, deployments, and devices, highly connected, sustainable smart cities are no longer mere concepts or fantastical future dreams; many are already active and are expanding apace.
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  Xiaohang Li promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 4 2021

  News

  KAUST faculty member Xiaohang Li was recently promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since joining KAUST in January 2016, Li led his Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory (ASL) in making several important contributions in semiconductor research.

June 2021

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  KAUST research group win inaugural MCIT Digital Innovation Award

  1 min read · Mon, Jun 28 2021

  News

  digital innovation award smart tap artificial intelligence

  A team of KAUST researchers have won first place in the Digital Research track at the inaugural Digital Innovation Awards held on Sunday, April 25, 2021. Launched by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), the awards aim to “enhance the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in digital research and development” in Saudi Arabia.
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  Viruses as communication molecules

  1 min read · Sun, Jun 27 2021

  News

  Computer science human health pathogens modeling

  Electrical and computer engineers take on complex modeling questions that can further our understanding of virus spread in small spaces.
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  Coronavirus testing made quick and easy

  1 min read · Mon, Jun 21 2021

  News

  COVID-19 human health Biosensors bioengineering

  New diagnostic technique could help contain the spread of COVID-19 and other viral outbreaks.
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  Plant probes make sense for sustainable farming

  1 min read · Sun, Jun 20 2021

  News

  plant science Biosensors agriculture electrical engineering

  Ultrathin needles for probing plants could help keep crop health in check.
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  KAUST postdoctoral fellow wins URSI Young Scientist Award

  1 min read · Tue, Jun 15 2021

  News

  electromagnetic waves electromagnetic fields

  KAUST Postdoctoral Fellow Rui Chen has been awarded a Young Scientist (YS) Award by the International Union of Radio Science (Union Radio Scientifique Internationale-URSI) for his “innovative contributions and discoveries in multidiscipline research related to electromagnetic fields and waves.”
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  Chun Hong Kang receives SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

  1 min read · Thu, Jun 3 2021

  News

  optics photonics

  Chun Hong Kang, a Ph.D. student in the KAUST Photonics Laboratory, has been awarded a 2021 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE for his “potential contributions to the field of optics and photonics.”
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  KAUST VCC research scientist appointed as Associate Editor of leading IEEE journal

  1 min read · Thu, Jun 3 2021

  News

  Laurent Condat, a research scientist based in the KAUST Visual Computing Center, has recently been appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP). The peer-reviewed journal covers novel theory, algorithms, performance analyses, and applications of techniques for the processing, understanding, learning, retrieval, mining, and extraction of information from signals.