Regional Directors-at-Large

Regional Directors-at-Large (RDaL) are in charge of promoting the Society's mission on a regional basis, taking into account geographical diversity to expand and integrate with the Signal Processing community.

The duties of Regional Directors-at-Large are to:

serve as non-voting members of Board of Governors;
provide liaison for the Society’s Chapters with the IEEE’s Regions and Sections, with the means of four Regional Committees: Regions 1-6 (US), 7/9 (Canada/Latin America), 8 (Europe/Middle East/Africa) and 10 (Asia/Pacific Rim);
Chair the Regional Committees to promote technical liaison, membership development and Conference organization to regions;
promote and foster local activities (such as conferences, meetings, social networking); encourage new chapter development with the support of the Chapters Committee Regional Representatives; assisting established Chapters via promotion, topics, media or technical speakers for chapter meetings;
foster nominations for Chapters for the “Chapter of the Year Awards”;
represent their regions to the core of SPS;
offer advices to improve membership relations, recruiting and service to their regions;
guide and work with their corresponding chapters to serve their members, as appropriate and;
assist Vice President-Membership in conducting chapter reviews.