Introduction of New Editors

O support the continuing increase in submission arising from the popularity of TPAMI with authors, we are pleased to announce that Professor Zoubin Ghahramani will be joining David Fleet as an Associate Editor-in-Chief (AEIC) of TPAMI. He will help to maintain the high quality that readers expect and the timeliness and thoroughness of reviewing that authors’ demand. The AEIC works hand-in-hand with the Editor-in-Chief in all aspects of TPAMI’s editorial review process, including establishing policies, selecting special issues, selecting editors, helping the fl ow of papers through the review process, handling appeals, etc. Dr. Ghahramani is a leader in the fi eld of machine learning, an area of increasing importance to TPAMI, for both the quality of his research and his service to the community. We are also happy to announce that the TPAMI editorial board is expanding with the addition of four new Associate Editors, Dr. Sing Bing Kang, Professor Kevin Murphy. Dr. Salil Prabhakar, and Professor Dale Schuurmans. Dr. Kang will handle papers on image-based rendering, vision for graphics, image and video processing/enhancement, and stereopsis and structure from motion. Professor Murphy will oversee papers about graphical models, structure learning, causal inference, unsupervised learning, and Bayesian methods. Dr. Prabhakar will oversee the review process of papers in all aspects of biometric systems and theoretical and empirical evaluation of computer vision algorithms. Professor Schuurmans’ expertise includes machine learning techniques (support vector machines, kernel methods, clustering, dimensionality reduction), graphical models, optimization, and Monte Carlo methods, and he has begun to handle papers in these areas. Their brief biographies are below. Welcome to TPAMI’s editorial board!