Andreas Spanias is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). His research interests are in the areas of adaptive signal processing and speech processing. While at ASU, he has developed and taught courses in DSP, adaptive signal processing, and speech coding. He has also developed and taught continuing education short courses and web courses in digital signal processing and speech coding. Andreas Spanias has been the principal investigator on research contracts from Intel Corporation, Sandia National Labs, Motorola Inc., and Active Noise and Vibration Technologies. He has also consulted with Inter-Tel Communications, Intel Corporation, Motorola, Texas Instruments, DTC, and the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. In his work with Intel Coproration he contributed to the development of architectures with signal processing capabilities and received an award from Intel for "his leadership and contributions to the development of the Intel 60172 processor architecture" and a corporate award for his support of the Intel research program. He recently published refereed papers in Perceptual Coding of Digital Speech and Audio, Adaptive Beamforming, Genomic Signal Processing, and DSP Java tools. He and his student team developed the computer simulation software Java-DSP (J-DSP - ISBN 0-9724984-0-0) which is being used in the ASU DSP courses. He received the 2003 teaching award from the IEEE Phoenix section for the development of J-DSP. Andreas Spanias is associate director of the ASU Arts, Media, and Engineering (AME) program where he heads a program on sound localization for smart stages using microphone arrays. He is involved extensively in IEEE scientific activities. He is member of the DSP Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems society, and has served as a member in the technical committee on Statistical Signal and Array Processing of the IEEE Signal Processing society (SPS). He has also served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and as General Co-chair of the 1999 International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-99) in Phoenix. He served as the IEEE Signal Processing Vice-President for Conferences and the Chair of the Conference Board. He served as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Executive Committee and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He served as a member-at-large of the IEEE SPS Publications Board. He has been Chair of the IEEE Communications and Signal Processing Chapter in Phoenix, and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. Andreas Spanias is co-recipient of the 2002 IEEE Donald G. Fink paper prize award and he is a Fellow of the IEEE. He served as Distinguished lecturer of the IEEE SPS in 2004 and he received the 2004 IEEE signal processing society award for meritorious scientific service.