We invite the submission of original research papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:
| Foundations, methods, and algorithms | Application areas |
| Detection and estimation theory | Bioinformatics and genomics |
| Machine learning and pattern recognition | Big data |
| Signal separation methods | Signal processing for the internet of things |
| Data driven methods | Array processing, radar, and sonar |
| Bayesian techniques | Communication systems and networks |
| Sampling and reconstruction | Sensor networks |
| Signal and system modeling | Information forensics and security |
| Adaptive signal processing | Medical and biomedical imaging |
| Distributed signal processing | Social networks |
| Signal processing over graphs and networks | Smart grids and industrial applications |
| Optimization | Geoscience |
| Sparsity-aware processing | Astrophysics |