Current Distinguished Lecturers | IEEE Systems Council

Ali Abbas ^{Country USA} Affiliation University of Southern California IEEE Region Region 6 (Western U.S.) 2024 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Ethical Decision Quality: Building an Ethical Decision Culture in Systems Engineering Organizations Avoiding Systems Engineering Decision Traps in an Era of AI
Ram Adapa ^{Country USA} Affiliation Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. IEEE Region Region 6 (Western U.S.) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Role of HVDC and Power Electronics in Shaping the Future Electric Grid with Renewables
Amir G. Aghdam Personal Gender Pronouns (he/him) ^{Country CAN} Affiliation Concordia University IEEE Region Region 7 (Canada) 2021 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Characterization of Connectivity in Asymmetric Networks with Application to Data Aggregation in Underwater Sensor Networks
Jose Maria Azorin Poveda IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2017 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems to Control Robots Brain-Machine Interface Systems for Interacting with Robotic Exoskeletons
Frede Blaabjerg 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Design for Reliability in Power Electronic Systems
John Blyler ^{Country USA} Affiliation JB Systems Tech IEEE Region Region 6 (Western U.S.) 2021 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	IoT and Digitization Will Require New System Engineering Skills Systems Engineers and Managers Can No Longer Ignore These 6 Areas of Change
G.Maarten Bonnema ^{Country NLD} Affiliation University Twente IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	The Systems Architect: the realistic visionary or the visionary realist?
David Brown ^{Country USA} Affiliation Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) IEEE Region Region 5 (Southwestern U.S.) 2024 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Advanced EW Systems with Machine Learning Machine Learning on Advanced RF Systems
Ni-Bin Chang IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) 2018 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Multi-sensor Satellite Image Fusion, Data Merging, and Machine Learning For Monitoring Changing Earth Environment Integrating Tensor Flows with Spectral Dimensions for Improving Earth Observations via Satellite Remote Sensing Developing Chemical and Microbial Virtual Sensors with Cortical Gap Fusion Network in a Water Filtration System
Armando Walter Colombo ^{Country DEU} Affiliation University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer. Institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation Systems and Robotics (I2AR). IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2020 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Engineering ISoCPS. Digitalizing and Networking an Industrial Eco‐System using the DIN SPEC 91345 / IEC PAS 63088 RAMI4.0 Implementing Industrial Systems-of-Cyber-Physical Systems Learning, Living and Working with Industrial Systems-of-Cyber-Physical System Engineering Industry (4.0+5.0)-compliant Systems-of-Cyber-Physical Systems
Maria Pia Fanti ^{Country ITA} Affiliation Polytechnic University of Bari IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Machine learning and deep reinforcement learning applied to cooperative, connected and automated mobility
Francesco Flammini Affiliation University of Florence (Italy) and University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	From Safe Perception to Trustworthy Autonomy: A Systems Engineering Approach with Digital Twins
Sergio Grammatico ^{Country NLD} Affiliation Delft University of Technology IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Systems and Control Theory for Game Equilibrium Seeking
Holly Handley ^{Country USA} Affiliation Old Dominion University IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) 2019 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	The Human Viewpoint: Including the Human Component in System Architectures Human System Engineering From Human Views to Human Readiness Levels
Paul C. Hershey ^{Country USA} Affiliation Raytheon IIS IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) 2017 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Data Analytics Overview and Use Cases Tutorial The Application of Data Analytics to Assist Human Decision-Making Role of AI-ML in Systems Engineering to Support Human Decision Making Gate Reduction at Distributed Edge (GRaDE)
Yogananda Jeppu ^{Country IND} Affiliation Boeing IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) 2024 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Demystifying Model Based Testing Do SE Before MBSE A Calendar for Systems Engineering
Hongjie Jia ^{Country CHN} Affiliation Tianjin University IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Integrated Energy Systems Status and Future Works
Burak Kantarci ^{Country CAN} Affiliation University of Ottawa IEEE Region Region 7 (Canada) 2022 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Artificial Intelligence-Powered Security and Resilience for Cyber-Physical Systems Edge Intelligence and Generative-AI in 6G Semantic Communications and Multimodal LLMs for Intelligent Traffic Monitoring
Luis Kun ^{Country USA} Affiliation IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Global Citizen Safety and Security. The Multidimensional Global Threats, and the Challenges of Multiple Complex Emergencies and Large Scale Disasters
Eren Kurshan ^{Country USA} Affiliation Princeton University IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) 2024 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Is System Design The Missing Piece for AGI?: System-level Design Considerations for Next Generation AI
Henry Leung ^{Country CAN} Affiliation University of Calgary IEEE Region Region 7 (Canada) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Predictive RGBD Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Systems for Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles
Zhaojun (Steven) Li Affiliation Western New England University IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Reliable Intelligence: Evaluating GenAI’s Role in High-Impact Decision Making
Rao Mannepalli ^{Country USA} Affiliation Leidos IEEE Region Region 5 (Southwestern U.S.) 2024 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Digital Engineering is too important to be left alone to MBSE Practitioners Can Systems Engineering help in Zero-Defect-Delivery (ZDD)? Is it really possible, in particular while delivering updates to decades old legacy mission critical systems? Or is it Rocket Science, a Beautiful Myth, or Snake Oil? Experiences in Developing a Light-Footprint, Optimum- Fidelity Digital Twin of a Legacy System, Incrementally (and Preventing It from Becoming an Evil Twin) Systems Engineering in Aerospace & Defense Systems Critical to National Security, in this Age of Large Language Models (LLM), ChatGPT, and Copilot
Tom McDermott ^{Country USA} Affiliation Stevens Institute of Technology IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) 2024 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Digital Engineering 101 Using System Models and AI to Improve Cyber Resilience
Saeid Nahavandi ^{Country AUS} Affiliation Swinburne University of Technology IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) 2024 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Transitioning from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0: A Human-Centric Approach
Vincenzo Piuri ^{Country ITA} Affiliation University of Milan IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2017 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Biometric Technologies and Systems for Automated Border Control Gates Advanced Biometric Technologies Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Biometric Technologies Artificial Intelligence for Cloud Computing Management Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Environment Computational Intelligence Models for Solar Energy Applications Ambient intelligence: Adaptivity by Using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Biometrics in Worldwide Cloud-Based Environments
Ramakrishnan Raman ^{Country IND} Affiliation Eaton IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) 2021 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Understanding Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems & System-of-Systems: How to Leverage Machine Learning Models Machine Learning Models for Aiding System Architecture Design Decisions Navigating Complexity: MBSE & AI
Robert C. Rassa ^{Country USA} Affiliation Raytheon (Retired) Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) 2017 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
Anton Rassõlkin ^{Country EST} Affiliation Tallinn University of Technology IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	Digital Twin Technology for Electric Propulsion in Software-Defined Electric Vehicles
Pierangela Samarati ^{Country ITA} Affiliation Università degli Studi di Milano IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2017 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Data Security and Privacy in Emerging Scenarios
Somayeh Sojoudi ^{Country USA} Affiliation University of California, Berkeley IEEE Region Region 6 (Western U.S.) 2022 - 2027 Distinguished Lecturer	Efficient Computational Methods for Large-Scale Safety-critical Systems
Haifeng Zhu ^{Country USA} Affiliation BAE Systems 2024 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Architecture Optimization for Sustainability
Haibin Zhu ^{Country CAN} Affiliation Nipissing University Memberships SMCS IEEE Region Region 7 (Canada) 2026 - 2028 Distinguished Lecturer	E-CARGO/RBC: Enabling Research Innovations in the Era of AI