Ali H. Sayed, distinguished professor and former chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, will deliver the 2015 Eliahu I. and Joyce Jury Seminar on “Learning and Inference over Networks” at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, December 4 in the McArthur Engineering Annex, room 202.

Sayed has received numerous honors and awards over his career, including the Papoulis Award of the European Association for Signal Processing, the Meritorious Service Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the Distinguished Lecturer Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Terman Award of the ASEE, the Kuwait Prize, IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize, and several Best Paper Awards from the IEEE. He has served as editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and has been elected to serve as president-elect (2016-17) and president (2018-19) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

He is also a fellow of IEEE and the AAAS. For more information, contact Kamal Premaratne at [email protected] or 305-284-4051.