LINA KARAM is currently a full professor in the School of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, Computer Engineering Director, and the Director of the R&D Image, Video, and Usability (IVU) Lab at Arizona State University. Dr. Karam is an IEEE Fellow, a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, NASA Technical Innovation Award, the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Best Journal Paper Award, and the IEEE Phoenix Section Outstanding Faculty Award. Her industrial experience includes image and video processing and compression development at AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill), multi-dimensional data processing and visualization at Schlumberger, and collaborations on computer vision, machine learning, image/video processing, compression, and transmission projects with various industries including Intel, Qualcomm, Google, NTT, Motorola, Freescale, General Dynamics, and NASA. Dr. Karam has served on several journal editorial boards, several conference organization committees, and several IEEE technical committees. She recently served as the General Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. She cofounded the International Conference on the Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX). She is currently serving on the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Board of Governors and the IEEE Publications Board as the IEEE WIE Liaison. She is a member of the Foundation and Trends in Signal Processing Journal Editorial Board and of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Senior Editorial Board. She is also a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Image, Video & Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s DSP Technical Committee.