SP Education Author Workshop - Books and online courses

April 10, 2025 | 14:00-15:30 | MR1.05, HICC

The face of scientific publishing is changing at a very fast pace. This author workshop has been devised specifically as a resource for faculty members looking to publish academic books and offer online courses.

Resource persons

Swati Meherishi

Editorial Director-Applied Science and Engineering, Springer, will speak about the transitions in and the needs of the book publishing world and how researchers need to prepare for it. Some of the key topics covered during this presentation are the book publishing process – preparing a book proposal, review, manuscript preparation, post publication, and future of books

Israel Cohen

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Haifa will share his experiences as author of seven books in the areas of Array Signal Processing and Speech Processing.

Xavier Serra

Professor of Information and Communication Technologies and Director of the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona will share his experiences as faculty of the Coursera course on Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications with an enrolment of 58k learners

Detailed schedule

14:00 - 14:05

Introduction by organisers

14:05 - 14:45

Springer Nature Book Publishing Workshop, Swati Meherishi, Editorial Director, Springer

14:45 - 15:00

Experience sharing by book author, Israel Cohen, Technion Haifa

15:00 - 15:15

Experience sharing by online course faculty, Xavier Serra, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

15:15 - 15:30

Discussion and Q&A