Council Committees

Awards and Recognition (Ad Hoc) Committee Chair

Robert C. Rassa

Raytheon (Retired)

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Chapter Committee Chair

Fabrice Labeau

Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning)

McGill University

Canada

7 (Canada)

Constitution & Bylaws Committee Chair

Katie Wilson

Santa Clara University

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Cooperation Committee (IEEE Entities)

Aylin Yener

Professor

The Ohio State University

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

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Aylin Yener

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Website

Biography

Aylin Yener holds the Roy and Lois Chope Chair in Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, since 2020, where she is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, professor of Integrated Systems Engineering and professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Until 2020, she was a University Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Dean’s Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, where she joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2002. She was a visiting professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2016-2018 and a visiting associate professor in the same department in 2008-2009. Her current research interests are in information security, green communications, caching systems, and more generally in the fields of information theory, communication theory and networked systems. She received the NSF CAREER Award in 2003, the Best Paper Award in Communication Theory from the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2010, the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) Outstanding Research Award in 2010, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in 2014, the PSEAS Premier Research Award in 2014, the Leonard A. Doggett Award for Outstanding Writing in Electrical Engineering at Penn State in 2014, the IEEE Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award in 2018, and the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2019. She has been a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Information Theory Society (2019-2020), the IEEE Communications Society (2018-2019) and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2017-2021). Dr. Yener is serving as the president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2020. Previously she was the vice president (2019), the second vice president (2018), an elected member of the Board of Governors (2015-2018), and the treasurer (2012-2014) of the IEEE Information Theory Society. She served as the Student Committee Chair for the IEEE Information Theory Society (2007-2011), and was the co-Founder of the Annual School of Information Theory in North America in 2008. She was a Technical (Co)-Chair for various symposia/tracks at the IEEE ICC, PIMRC, VTC, WCNC, and Asilomar in 2005, 2008-2014 and 2018. Previously, she served as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS (2009-2012), an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING (2017-2018), and an Editor and an Editorial Advisory Board Member for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (2001-2012). She also served a Guest Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY in 2011, and the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS in 2015. Currently, she serves as a Senior Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS and is on the Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN INFORMATION THEORY.

Affiliation(s)

Professor

The Ohio State University

United States

Cooperation Committee (Non-IEEE Entities)

Armando Walter Colombo

Professor

University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer

Germany

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Armando Walter Colombo

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armando Walter Colombo joined the Department of Electrotechnical and Industrial Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Emden-Leer, Germany, became Full Professor in August 2010 and Director of the Institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation and Robotics (I2AR) in 2012.

Prof. Colombo worked also during 17 years (2001-2018) as Manager Director for Collaborative Innovation Projects and also as Edison Level 2 Group Senior Expert at Schneider Electric, Industrial Business Unit.

Prof. Colombo received the BSc. on Electronics Engineering from the National Technological University of Mendoza, Argentina, in 1990, the MSc. on Control System Engineering from the National University of San Juan, Argentina, in 1994, and the Doctor degree in Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1998. From 1999 to 2000 was Adjunct Professor in the Group of Robotic Systems and CIM, Faculty of Technical Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. During the last 15 years he has also been working as Invited Professor at the University of Loughborough and University of Warwick (UK), University of Tampere (Finland), ITMO University (Russia), Universidad Tecnologica Nacional (UTN) (Argentina), BUAP (Mexico).

Prof. Colombo has extensive experience in managing multi-cultural research teams in multi-regional projects. He has participated in leading positions in many international research and innovation projects related to the area of Industrial Informatics. His research interests are in the fields of industrial cyber-physical systems, industrial digitalization and system-of-systems engineering, Internet-of-Services, Industry 4.0-compliant solutions.

Prof. Colombo has over 30 industrial patents and more than 300 per-review publications in journals, books, chapters of books and conference proceedings (see here). With his contributions, he has performed scientific and technical seminal contributions that are nowadays being used as one of the basis of what is recognized as “The 4th Industrial Revolution” and are penetrating the daily life, producing visible societal changes and impacting all levels of the society.

He is member of the IEEE IES Administrative Committee (AdCom), member of the Fellow Committees of the IEEE IES, IEEE SMS and IEEE CS, and IES representative by the IEEE Systems Council. He is co-founder of three IEEE IES Technical Committees (i) on Industrial Agents, (ii) on Industrial Informatics and (iii) on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems.

Prof. Colombo served/serves as advisor/expert for the definition of the Research and Innovation priorities within the Framework Programs FP6, FP7, FP8 (HORIZON 2020) and FP9 (Horizon Europe, ECSEL SRA) of the European Union. H is working as expert/evaluator in the European Research Executive Agency (REA), ECSEL Platform, Eureka- and German BMBF/DLR Programs, as well as Digital Supercluster Canada, National R&D-Programs in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, etc.

Prof. Colombo is listed in Who’s Who in the World /Engineering 99-00/01 and in Outstanding People of the XX Century (Bibliographic Centre Cambridge, UK).

Affiliation(s)

Professor

University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer

Germany

Director

Institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation Systems and Robotics (I2AR)

Germany

Distinguished Lecturer Committee Chair

Pierangela Samarati

Professor

Università degli Studi di Milano

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Website

Pierangela Samarati

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Website

Biography

Pierangela Samarati is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her main research interests are on data and applications security and privacy, especially in emerging scenarios. She has participated in several projects involving different aspects of information protection. On these topics, she has published more than 260 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. She has been Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, CA (USA). She has been a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, CA (USA), and at the Center for Secure Information Systems of George Mason University, VA (USA).

She is the chair of the IEEE Systems Council Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in Complex Information Systems (TCSPCIS), of the ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group (STM), and of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES). She is a member of several steering committees. She is ACM Distinguished Scientist (named 2009) and IEEE Fellow (named 2012). She has received the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2016). She has been awarded the IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman Award (2008) and the IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Contributions Award (2012). She has served as General Chair, Program Chair, and program committee member of several international conferences and workshops.

Affiliation(s)

Professor

Università degli Studi di Milano

Italy

Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

Professor

University of Kansas, Lawrence

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

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Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

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Biography

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan received Master's degree in Mathematics from University of Warsaw, Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) in Poland. Before moving to University of Kansas (KU) in 1984, she was faculty member of Department of Mathematics at SGH. At KU she is Professor of Mathematics, Courtesy Professor of EECS and AE, ITTC Investigator, CBC affiliate, Chancellors Club Teaching Professor, and KU Women's Hall of Fame inductee. She is Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IFAC, recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award. She has served in many capacities in several societies including IEEE CSS Vice President, PTM- Warsaw Branch Vice President, IEEE CSS and SSIT BoG member, Program Director of SIAM Activity Group on CST, Chair of IEEE CSS TC on Control Education, Chair of AACC Education Committee, member of IFAC TB, Chair of IFAC Task Force on DI, Past Chair of IEEE WIE Committee, co-founder of IEEE CSS Standing Committee on Women in Control (WIC) and its first Chair, member of Award Boards of IFAC and AWM, founder and faculty advisor of AWM and SIAM Student Chapters at KU, founder and coordinator of Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (MSAM)/ Outreach Program at KU, and founder and Chair of Stochastic Adaptive Control Seminar at KU. She is an Associate Editor of several Journals, and author and co-author of over 200 technical papers and book chapters. Her research is interdisciplinary and primarily in stochastic adaptive control, data analysis and modeling, and in STEM education. She is a recipient of many awards including IREX Fellow, NSF Career Advancement, KU Women of Distinction, Kemper Fellow, IFAC Outstanding Service, Steeples Service to Kansans, H.O.P.E. , AWM L. Hay, Morrison, Max Wells, B. Price, Polish Ministry of Higher Education and Science, IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education. Her hobbies are music, art and poetry. She loves traveling. She has visited 55 countries. She is passionate about helping others. Her husband, Tyrone Duncan, IEEE Life Fellow is an EE, and professor of mathematics; her daughter, Dominique Duncan, IEEE SM is an EE, mathematician, and assistant professor of neurology and bioengineering.

Affiliation(s)

Professor

University of Kansas, Lawrence

United States

Amir G. Aghdam

Concordia University

Canada

7 (Canada)

Amir G. Aghdam

7 (Canada)

Biography

received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2000. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and the Academic Code Administrator in the School of Graduate Studies. He was a Visiting Scholar with Harvard University in fall 2015, and was an Associate with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from September 2015 to December 2016. His research interests include multi-agent networks, distributed control, optimization, and sampled-data systems. Prof. Aghdam is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario, Chair of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal, and was an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, IEEE ACCESS, IET Control Theory and Applications, and the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was a member of the Technical Program Committee of a number of conferences, including the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and the IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control. He was a member of the Review Panel/Committee for the NSF, Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency, Innovation Fund Denmark Projects, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ECE Evaluation Group. He was the 2014–2015 President of IEEE Canada and Director (Region 7), IEEE, Inc., and was also a member of the IEEE Awards Board for this period. He is a recipient of the 2009 IEEE MGA Achievement Award and 2020 IEEE Canada J. M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. Dr. Aghdam was a member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee for 2017–2019 and is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Medals Council.

Affiliation(s)

Concordia University

Canada

Education (Ad Hoc) Committee Chair

Steve Holt

Senior Systems Engineer

KBR, Inc

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Steve Holt

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Biography

Stephen M. Holt received his B.S. in Mathematical Physics from Wilmington College (Wilmington, Ohio, USA), and his B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Franklin University (Columbus, Ohio. USA). He also completed his M.S. in Engineering (with an emphasis in Ocean Engineering and Underwater Acoustics) from The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC, USA) and Graduate Certificates in Engineering Management from The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC, USA) and Project Management from The George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, USA).

Steve is currently employed with KBR, Inc. of Greenbelt, Maryland, USA as a Senior Systems Engineer supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He has also supported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with many meteorological and oceanic programs. He joined the IEEE in 2000 and was later elected to the grade of Senior Member to the IEEE in 2001. He is also a long-standing member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS). Steve was the elected member to the OES Executive Committee as its Secretary for ten years (2001-2010). In 2007, he was awarded the IEEE OES Distinguished Service Award (DSA).

His technical interests include spacecraft systems engineering, optical systems engineering, as well as remote sensing of the atmosphere and oceanic environments. He has completed a nine-year work effort on the recently deployed NASA James Webb Space Telescope and is presently working on the NASA ILLUMA-T infrared optical laser communications program.

Affiliation(s)

Senior Systems Engineer

KBR, Inc

United States

Fellows Evaluation Committee Chair

W. Dale Blair

Georgia Tech Research Institute

United States

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

W. Dale Blair

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

William Dale Blair is a principal research engineer with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and recently completed an assignment as the Technical Director for the C2BMC Knowledge Center of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). He received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1985 and 1987. In January 1998, he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining GTRI, Dr. Blair was with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) in Dahlgren, Virginia. At NSWCDD, he originated two benchmark problems for target tracking and radar resource allocation. He also led a project that demonstrated through a real-time tracking experiment that modern tracking algorithms can be utilized to reduce the radar time and energy required by a phased array radar to support surveillance tracking. Since joining GTRI in 1997, Dr. Blair has led a multiorganizational team in the development of multiplatform-multisensor-multitarget benchmarks to both air defense and ballistic missile defense. His projects at GTRI focus mostly on the modeling and simulation and algorithm assessment associated with the sensor netting for the battle management, command, and control for the ballistic missile defense system. Dr. Blair is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the 2001 IEEE Nathanson Award for Outstanding Young Radar Engineer. He served as the Editor for Radar Systems for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (T-AES) 1996-99 and Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for IEEE T-AES from 1999-2005. Dr. Blair also served on the Board of Governors of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) from 1998-2003 and 2005-2010. While a member of the IEEE AESS BoG, he served as Associate Vice President for Publications for 2007-10 and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee for 2009-10, originated the Target Tracking Systems Panel, and initiated the Systems Panel for Cyber Security Systems. Dr. Blair's research is reported in over two hundred articles which include 38 refereed journal articles. He originated and coordinates three short courses, Target Tracking in Sensor Systems, Target Tracking Concepts, and Advanced Target Tracking for Ballistic Missile Defense, for the Professional Education Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Blair is coeditor and coauthor of the book, Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Advances and Applications III, and the co-author of chapter 18 “Radar Measurements” and author of chapter 19 “Radar Tracking Algorithms” of the new edition of Principles of Modern Radar. He has also served as the coordinator of the ONR/GTRI Workshop on Target Tracking and Sensor Fusion for 1998 through 2011.

Affiliation(s)

Georgia Tech Research Institute

United States

Fellows ID Committee Chair

Finance Committee Chair

Jeffrey Rubin

JNR LLC

United States

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Industry/Industry Professionals Committee Chair

Stamatis Karnouskos

SAP

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Website

Life Members Committee Chair

Walter Downing

President (2020-2021)

IEEE AESS

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Meetings and Conferences Committee Chair

Andy Chen

Catronic Enterprise

United States

7 (Canada)

Andy Chen

7 (Canada)

Biography

President & CEO, Catronic Enterprise Founding Managing Partner, REDDS Capital
Andy is the President 2020/2021, IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS) and a member of the Board of Governors 2019/2020 for IEEE Computer Society (CS). He participates in the United Nations Global Pulse's Data Privacy Advisory Group. He is also a director for the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations’ board and a member of the Technical Advisory Council for the FinTech Ideas Festival. He also served as the Chair of the Technical Advisory Council for YinTech Investment Holding Ltd. As an internationally recognized speaker, Andy was a keynote speaker at the UN ITU Telecom World and AI for Good Global Summit, the World Computer Congress, the World CIO Forum, and the Digital Africa Conference.

Andy Chen is the President & CEO of a global consulting firm. The firm’s principle business is to provide consulting services for the utility industry worldwide. Andy is a senior business advisor for several leading global consulting firms and enterprise software vendors. Andy held the position of the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture of the largest Canadian-based electricity generator.

Andy is a partner of REDDS Venture Investment partners which empowers disruptive start-ups that scale worldwide and have billion dollars plus potential through team building, global business development, financing, mentoring, and strategy.

Affiliation(s)

Catronic Enterprise

United States

Member Services Committee Chair

Stephanie White

Senior Professor

Long Island University – Post Campus

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Stephanie White

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Stephanie White is an educator, technical leader in system and software requirements/design, a corporate manager, and entrepreneur. Her research interests and publications are in systems science and engineering with an emphasis on modeling and semantic analysis of complex systems. She performed research for the Navy (NRL, NWC, and NSWC) and for Grumman and Northrop Grumman, leading to higher quality and lower cost products. Currently, Senior Professor Emeritus, Long Island University, she taught systems science, systems engineering, and computer science, and is still called on to participate on dissertation committees. As Principal Engineer, Requirements and Architecture, and Manager at Grumman Aerospace and Northrop Grumman, made recommendations regarding new technology and development, wrote proposals for military aircraft (E-2, F-14) and space programs (NASA, Missile Defense), and was involved in personnel recruitment and management. As President of her own company, Systems World, she performed research for the U.S. Navy under a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Polytechnic, now NYU Tandon School of Engineering, an M.S. in Mathematics from NYU, and a B.S. in Mathematics from CUNY. A lifelong IEEE volunteer, she was awarded the IEEE-USA Divisional Professional Leadership Award for inspiring women to study and work in STEM fields, and for leadership in diversity initiatives. She founded the Computer Society TC on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, is a member of the Computer Society’s Golden Core, was VP of Computer Society TAB, and is on the CS Board of Governors. She has held many positions in Systems Council, including that of President. She is currently Division X Director 2023-2024 and Systems Council VP Member Services.

Affiliation(s)

Senior Professor

Long Island University – Post Campus

United States

Nominations & Appointments Committee Chair

Stephen Dyer

Kansas State University

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Publications Committee Chair

Paolo Carbone

University of Perugia

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Standards Committee Chair

Steve Holt

Senior Systems Engineer

KBR, Inc

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Steve Holt

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Biography

Affiliation(s)

Senior Systems Engineer

KBR, Inc

United States

Senior Members Committee Chair

Walter Downing

President (2020-2021)

IEEE AESS

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Student Committee Chair

Robert C. Rassa

Raytheon (Retired)

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Women in Systems Engineering Committee Chair

Holly Handley

Old Dominion University

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Young Professionals Committee Chair

James Ritchie

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Awards and Recognition (Ad Hoc) Committee Chair

Chapter Committee Chair

Constitution & Bylaws Committee Chair

Cooperation Committee (IEEE Entities)

Cooperation Committee (Non-IEEE Entities)

Distinguished Lecturer Committee Chair

Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair

Education (Ad Hoc) Committee Chair

Fellows Evaluation Committee Chair

Fellows ID Committee Chair

Finance Committee Chair

Industry/Industry Professionals Committee Chair

Life Members Committee Chair

Meetings and Conferences Committee Chair

Member Services Committee Chair

Nominations & Appointments Committee Chair

Publications Committee Chair

Standards Committee Chair

Senior Members Committee Chair

Student Committee Chair

Women in Systems Engineering Committee Chair

Young Professionals Committee Chair

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