Takao Hinamoto received his B.E. degree from the Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, in 1969, and his M.E. degree from the Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, in 1971, and a Doctorate in Engineering from the Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1977. From the year 1972 to 1988, he was with the Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University and from 1979 to 1981, he was a visiting member of staff in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. During 1988-1991, he was the Professor of Electronic Circuits in the Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan. During 1992-2009, he was the Professor of Electronic Control in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. Since 2009, he has been the Professor Emeritus of Hiroshima University. His research interests include digital signal processing, system theory, and control engineering. He has published almost 450 papers in these areas. He is the coeditor and coauthor of Two-Dimensional Signal and Image Processing (Tokyo, Japan: SICE, 1996). In 2004, he served as the General Chair of the 47th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems held in Hiroshima, Japan. Since 1995, he has been a Steering Committee Member of the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Since 1998, he has been a Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee Member in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He played a leading role in establishing the Hiroshima Section of IEEE and served as Interim Chair of the Section. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in January 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the SICE. He became a Life Fellow of the IEEE in 2011. Wu-Sheng Lu received his undergraduate education in mathematics from the Fudan University, Shanghai, China, during the years 1959 to 1964, and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in control science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada, in 1985, and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Minnesota from January 1986 to April 1987. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Victoria, in 1987 where he is a professor. His current research interests include analysis and design of digital filters, digital signal and image processing with a focus on sparse signal processing, and methods and applications of convex optimization. He is the co-author with A. Antoniou of Two-Dimensional Digital Filters (Marcel Dekker, 1992) and Practical Optimization: Algorithms and Engineering Applications (Springer, 2007). He served as editor for the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering and associate editor for several journals including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, International Journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, and Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. He received several awards for his teaching at University of Victoria. He was elected a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1994. In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE. He became a Life Fellow of the IEEE in 2012. He is a registered professional engineer in British Columbia, Canada.