Publications Committee

The Publications Committee shall consist of the Senior Past-President, who will serve as Chair and Vice-President of Publications, the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (the Transactions), the Executive Editor of the Transactions, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (the Journal), the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Journal, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Newsletter. The Committee shall advise the Board on the overall publications policies for the Society and shall serve, as needed, in an advisory capacity to the editors of Society publications on matters of policy that transcend individual publications.

Subsection A) Transactions Editors: The term of office of the Transactions Editor-in-Chief and the Transactions Executive Editor shall be eighteen months. At the end of a term of office, the Transactions Executive Editor shall assume the office of the Transactions

Editor-in-Chief. Following an open call issued by the Society at least six months prior to the end of a term of office, a new Transactions Executive Editor shall be nominated by the Nominations and Appointments Committee in consultation with the present Transactions Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor. The nominee shall be appointed with approval of the Board. The outgoing Transactions Editor-in-Chief is not eligible for immediate reappointment as Transactions Executive Editor. Both the Transactions Editor-in-Chief and Transactions Executive Editor shall be voting members of the Board. Transactions Associate Editors are appointed by the Transactions Editor-in-Chief, subject to the approval of the Board. The Transactions Editor-in-Chief may appoint an Executive Editorial Board for the term of his or her tenure, which shall serve as an advisory body.

Subsection B) Journal Steering Committee and Editor-in-Chief: The Steering Committee of the Journal shall consist of four members, serving in staggered non-renewable four-year terms. Appointments to the Steering Committee shall be made by the Nominations and Appointments Committee in consultation with the current Steering Committee members. The Chair of the Steering Committee shall be appointed by Steering Committee members and must have served for at least one year as a committee member prior to being appointed Chair. In the event that the Steering Committee is unable to select a Chair, the Chair shall be selected by the Publications Committee.

The term of office of the Journal Editor-in-Chief shall be three years. At least six months prior to the end of a term of office, the Society shall issue an open call for a new Journal Editor-in-Chief. The Journal Editor-in-Chief shall be nominated by the Steering Committee of the Journal and appointed by the Board. The outgoing Journal Editor-in-Chief is not eligible for immediate re-appointment as Journal Editor-in-Chief. The Journal Editor-in-Chief shall be a voting member of the Board. Journal Senior Editors are appointed by the Journal Editor-in-Chief, subject to the approval of the Steering Committee of the Journal.

Subsection C) Newsletter Editor: The term of office of the Newsletter Editor shall be three years. The Newsletter Editor shall be appointed by the Board, upon nomination by the Society President.

	Editor-in-Chief (01/01/20 until 06/30/21) Igal Sason Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, Israel E-mail: sason@ee.technion.ac.il Phone: ++972-4-8294699
	Executive Editor (01/01/20 until 06/30/21) Erdal Arıkan Electrical Engineering Department, Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey
	JSAIT Editor-in-Chief (01/01/20 until 12/31/22) Andrea Goldsmith Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 Phone: 650 725 6932
	Vice-President of Publications (01/01/20 until 12/31/20) Elza Erkip elza_at_nyu.edu
	Ex-officio (01/01/20 until 12/31/22) Christina Fragouli Professor Department of Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles
	Ex-officio (10/04/18 until 12/31/20) Aylin Yener Roy and Lois Chope Chair in Engineering Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering Professor of Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University 720 Dreese Labs, 2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210
	Ex-officio (01/01/19 until 12/31/21) Wei Yu Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto, ON M5S 3G4 Canada
	Newsletter Editor (02/11/18 until 12/31/20) Salim El Rouayheb Wireless Foundations Lab EECS Department University of California, Berkeley
	Associate Editor At Large (10/01/17 until 12/31/20) Ioannis Kontoyiannis Department of Engineering     Trumpington Street     Cambridge CB2 1PZ     United Kingdom ik355@cam.ac.uk
	Associate Editor for Coding Theory (12/01/14 until 11/30/20) Chaoping Xing School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences Nanyang Technological University 21 Nanyang Link Singapore 637371
	Associate Editor for Coding Techniques (02/11/18 until 12/31/20) Bikash Kumar Dey Bikash Kumar Dey Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 India                                                                                  Ph.  +91-22-2576-7429 (Office) Fax: +91-22-2572-3707 Email: bikash@ee.iitb.ac.in, bikash.kr.dey@gmail.com URL: http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/wiki/faculty/bikash
	Associate Editor for Coding Techniques (08/01/17 until 08/31/20) Joerg Kliewer Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102-1982 USA Phone: +1 (973) 596-3519 Fax: +1 (973) 596-5680
	Associate Editor for Communications (08/01/17 until 08/31/20) Natasha Devroye Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Chicago Science and Engineering Offices (SEO) 851 S. Morgan Street (M/C 154) Chicago, IL 60607 Voice: 312 996 1013 Fax: 312 996 6465
	Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition, Statistical Learning, and Inference (01/01/18 until 01/01/21) Kamalika Chaudhuri kamalika@cs.ucsd.edu
	Associate Editor for Quantum Information Theory (08/01/17 until 08/31/20) Holger Boche Technische Universität München Department of Electrical Engineering  Institute of Theoretical Technology Theresienstraße 90 80333 München, Germany phone.: +49 89 289 23240 fax: +49 89 289 23242
	Associate Editor for Probability and Statistics (02/11/18 until 12/31/20) Maxim Raginsky Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1308 W Main St Urbana, IL 61801 USA
	Associate Editor for Source Coding (08/01/17 until 08/31/20) Narayana Prasad Santhanam University of Hawaii at Manoa   Mailing address: Department of Electrical Engineering, Holmes Hall #483, 2540 Dole St., Honolulu, HI 96822   Phone number: 808 956 9741