Alfred Hero has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (1995-1998, 1999), the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2004-2006), and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2002, 2004). He was Chairman of the Statistical Signal and Array Processing (SSAP) Technical Committee (1997-1998) and Treasurer of the Conference Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was Chairman for Publicity of the 1986 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Ann Arbor, MI) and General Chairman of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (Detroit, MI). He was co-chair of the 1999 IEEE Information Theory Workshop on Detection, Estimation, Classification and Filtering (Santa Fe, NM) and the 1999 IEEE Workshop on Higher Order Statistics (Caesaria, Israel). He Chaired the 2002 NSF Workshop on Challenges in Pattern Recognition. He co-chaired the 2002 Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS). He was Vice President (Finance) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1999-2002). He was Chair of Commission C (Signals and Systems) of the US National Commission of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) (1999-2002). He was member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1999-2004). He was President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006-2007) and during his term he served on the TAB Periodicals Committee (2006). He was a member of the IEEE TAB Society Review Committee (2009) and is Director-elect of IEEE for Division IX (2009).
Alfred Hero is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of Tau Beta Pi, the American Statistical Association (ASA) , the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the US National Commission (Commission C) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has been plenary and keynote speaker and several major conferences and received a IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998), a IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1998), a IEEE Third Millenium Medal (2000) and a 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturership.
Alfred Hero's recent research interests have been in detection, classification, pattern analysis, and adaptive sampling for spatio-temporal data. Of particular interest are applications to network security, multi-modal sensing and tracking, biomedical imaging, and genomic signal processing.
