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SHEILA S. HEMAMI received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Michigan in 1990, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1992 and 1994, respectively. She was with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California in 1994. In 1995, she joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, where she is a Professor and directs the Visual Communications Laboratory. Her research interests include visual communication and visual system understanding and modeling.

She is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and will join the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Board of Governors in 2009. She has chaired the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee and has served on various technical and program committees. Prof. Hemami received a National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award in 1997 and has received numerous college and national teaching awards. She held the Kodak Term Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University from 1996-1999, and was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in 2001 at the Faculte de Sciences in Rabat, Morocco. She has held visiting positions at Princeton University, Rice University, and EPFL.

Hemami is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.