Min Wu, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Maryland (UMD) and associate dean of engineering, was elected as the President-Elect of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) for the term 2022-2023. As of January 1, 2024, Professor Wu serves as the President of IEEE SPS.
Professor Wu is an international expert on multimedia signal processing, media forensics, and information security. She is a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at Maryland who is affiliated with the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) and holds a joint appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
As an active member of IEEE SPS for over 25 years, Professor Wu has collaborated with many volunteers from all regions and technical areas. She has served in a number of leadership roles for the society, including vice president for finance, chair of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee, editor-in-chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and in many major conferences. For her outstanding contributions to regional activities, she was recognized with the SPS Meritorious Service Award in 2016.
As SPS President, Professor Wu plans to increase diversity and inclusivity, address members’ needs in different regions, sectors, and career stages, and improve financial sustainability and growth within the society.
Professor Wu joined the UMD faculty in 2001 and leads the UMD Media and Security Team (MAST). She has published three books and nearly 200 papers in major international journals and conferences and holds 16 U.S. patents. She has co-authored several papers being recognized by paper awards from the IEEE SPS, EURASIP, and ACM. She received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2002, an MIT Technology Review TR100 Young Innovator Award in 2004, an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2005, a Computer World “40 Under 40” IT Innovator Award in 2007, the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award in 2009, two University of Maryland Invention of the Year Awards (2012 and 2015), the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer recognition in 2014, and the 2019 IEEE Harriett B. Rigas Award. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and IEEE.
