BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251231T180300Z UID:51E233DB-EA3F-49B8-8B6A-E2F0BD750EF2 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251231T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251231T130000 DESCRIPTION:IEEE SP Schenectady Chapter (Virtual) Lecture on Signal Process ing for the AI Era: A Launchpad for the Next Chapter of SPS and Beyond\n\n Speaker: Hema Achanta\n\nTitle: Signal Processing for the AI Era: A Launch pad for the Next Chapter of SPS and Beyond\n\nAbstract:\n\nArtificial inte lligence (AI) is reshaping every technical discipline\, yet many of its mo st influential ideas trace directly back to core principles in signal proc essing. Convolutional architectures\, attention mechanisms\, spectral meth ods\, and time-series models all carry the imprint of classical Signal Pro cessing concepts only scaled\, generalized\, and adapted for modern comput ational environments. In this talk\, I will highlight these connections an d show how a signal processing perspective provides not only historical co ntext\, but practical insight into where AI techniques excel\, where they fail\, and why.\n\nThis session also introduces the direction I intend to set for our IEEE SPS Chapter in the coming year. Our focus will be on brid ging foundational signal processing with rapidly evolving areas of machine learning\, control\, sensing\, and high-dimensional data systems\, while also keeping an eye on emerging frontiers such as quantum signal processin g and quantum-inspired algorithms. These technologies are still early\, bu t they represent the next horizon where Signal Processing principles may a gain play a defining role.\n\nBy examining how signal processing quietly s hapes the trajectory of modern AI and how it may influence future quantum frameworks this talk will serve as both a technical deep dive and a previe w of the chapter’s priorities rigor\, relevance\, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. I look forward to working with all of you as we build a ch apter that reflects the breadth and ambition of the SPS community today.\n \nSpeaker(s): Hema Achanta\, \n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m /524340 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/524340 ORGANIZER:hema999achanta@gmail.com, pappuc@union.edu SEQUENCE:18 SUMMARY:IEEE SP Schenectady Chapter (Virtual) Lecture on Signal Processing for the AI Era: A Launchpad for the Next Chapter of SPS and Beyond URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/524340 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>IEEE SP Schenectady Chapter (Virtual) Lect ure on Signal Processing for the AI Era: A Launchpad for the Next Chapter of SPS and Beyond</p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in\; li ne-height: normal\;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt\; font-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif\; mso-fareast- font-family: 'Times New Roman'\; mso-font-kerning: 0pt\; mso-ligatures: no ne\;">Speaker:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt\; font-family : 'Arial'\,sans-serif\; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\; mso-f ont-kerning: 0pt\; mso-ligatures: none\;"> Hema Achanta</span></p>\n<p cla ss="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -76.5pt\; line-height: normal\; margin: 0in 0in 0in 76.5pt\;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\;"><spa n style="font-size: 10.0pt\; font-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif\; mso-fareas t-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\; mso-font-kerning: 0pt\; mso-ligatures: none\;">Title:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt\; font-family : 'Arial'\,sans-serif\; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\; mso-f ont-kerning: 0pt\; mso-ligatures: none\;"> Signal Processing for the AI Er a: A Launchpad for the Next Chapter of SPS and Beyond</span></p>\n<p class ="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -76.5pt\; line-height: normal\; margin: 0 in 0in 0in 76.5pt\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -76.5pt\; line-height: normal\; margin: 0in 0in 0in 76.5pt\;"><span style ="font-size: 10.0pt\; font-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif\; mso-fareast-font- family: 'Times New Roman'\; mso-font-kerning: 0pt\; mso-ligatures: none\;" ><strong><span style="font-size: 16.0pt\; font-family: 'Verdana'\,sans-ser if\; color: #b5471f\;">Abstract:</span></strong></span></p>\n<p class="Mso Normal" style="text-align: justify\;">Artificial intelligence (AI) is resh aping every technical discipline\, yet many of its most influential ideas trace directly back to core principles in signal processing. Convolutional architectures\, attention mechanisms\, spectral methods\, and time-series models all carry the imprint of classical Signal Processing concepts only scaled\, generalized\, and adapted for modern computational environments. In this talk\, I will highlight these connections and show how a signal p rocessing perspective provides not only historical context\, but practical insight into where AI techniques excel\, where they fail\, and why.</p>\n <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify\;">This session also intro duces the direction I intend to set for our IEEE SPS Chapter in the coming year. Our focus will be on bridging foundational signal processing with r apidly evolving areas of machine learning\, control\, sensing\, and high-d imensional data systems\, while also keeping an eye on emerging frontiers such as quantum signal processing and quantum-inspired algorithms. These t echnologies are still early\, but they represent the next horizon where Si gnal Processing principles may again play a defining role.</p>\n<p class=" MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify\;">By examining how signal processin g quietly shapes the trajectory of modern AI and how it may influence futu re quantum frameworks this talk will serve as both a technical deep dive a nd a preview of the chapter&rsquo\;s priorities rigor\, relevance\, and cr oss-disciplinary collaboration. I look forward to working with all of you as we build a chapter that reflects the breadth and ambition of the SPS co mmunity today.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR