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Dr. Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek receives the IEEE John Choma Education Award

The John Choma Award honors researchers with exceptional contributions to education in a field within the scope of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) (https://ieee-cas.org/award/society-achievement-awards/ieee-circuits-and-systems-society-john-choma-education-award).

Contributions are quantifiable through textbook publications, supervision of graduate and undergraduate student research, development of short courses, and personal involvement in continuing education within the field. The award is based on the quality, continuity, and originality of contributions, as well as active participation in CASS as evidenced by articles in CASS journals and CASS-sponsored conferences, and service to the CASS community.

This award is named after John Choma, who was well known and respected in the CASS community and society. His passion for the field and for education justifies the name of this award in memory and honor of him.

This year, Dr. Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek, researcher at INAOE, received the John Choma Award for her contribution to education in signal processing. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that this important recognition has come to Mexico.

Dr. Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek is the only researcher who received two prestigious CASS awards this year: the John Choma Award and the award for best Associate Editor of the IEEE CASS II journal.

As every year, the award ceremony took place during the flagship conference of CASS, ISCAS, which this year was held in Singapore in May 2024. The award was presented by the current president of CASS, Dr. Myung Hoon Sunwoo.

The award consists of a wooden plaque and one thousand dollars.

Dr. Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek

Dr. Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek holds a PhD in Science from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering at the University of Sarajevo. Since 1995, she has been a researcher at the Electronics Coordination of INAOE. In different years, she has been a visiting researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara, San Diego State University, and the University of California Los Angeles. She is the author and co-author of more than 80 articles in indexed scientific journals and 400 in international conferences. Her book Random Signals and Processes Primer with MATLAB (Springer, 2013) received recognition from Springer as one of the most downloaded books in its e-edition.

She received the State Prize of Puebla for Science and Technology in 2012 and recognition from Elsevier for citing her article published in AEUE. She also received recognition from IEEE Mexico as a female researcher and awards as an Associate Editor of the IEEE CAS I (2020-2021, 2022) and IEEE CAS II (2023) journals.

She has given tutorials and seminars all over the world, in the United States, China, Malaysia, Australia, Uruguay, Egypt, Jordan and several countries in Europe. She has also given plenary lectures at several international conferences. She has participated in the organization of several international conferences around the world.

She is a member of the CASDSP and RCM committee of the ISCAS conference. She has been an Associate Editor of IEEE TCAS II, IEEE TCAS I and IEEE CAS Magazine. She is currently an Associate Editor of IET Signal Processing, a Senior Associate Editor of IEEE TCASII and a Member of the Editorial Board of Facta Universitatis Magazine, Series: Electronics and Energetics.