Member Society Representatives | IEEE Systems Council

AESS Primary Representative

Michael A. Cardinale

VP Finances

IEEE AESS

United States

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Michael A. Cardinale

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

Mr. Cardinale began his career as an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps and later served as an electronic countermeasures officer. After leaving active duty in 1981, he developed the training program for a newly commissioned Marine Corps Reserve electronic warfare squadron, and trained Electronic Countermeasures Officers in Whidbey Island, Washington.

In 1982 he moved to Northern Virginia as a staff engineer for a small business providing design and systems engineering support to Naval Air Systems Command and the Naval Research Laboratory, developing and testing infrared countermeasures (IRCM) and electronic countermeasures (ECM) systems for US Navy/Marine Corps and Army helicopters. He became Director of Engineering and later, Vice-president of Engineering, a position in which he served until 2004. His areas of expertise were in infrared (IR) focal plane array systems for missile countermeasures, aircraft fire control radars, radar and IR countermeasures systems, IR Search and Track (IRST) systems, data links, aircraft data buses, and electro-optical sensor systems. In 2004 he went to work at another small business as a Senior Systems Engineer for acoustic systems supporting US Navy and US Army programs.

In 2006, he left to work for the US Defense Intelligence Agency as a Technical Intelligence Officer, working on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) counter-proliferation systems, on forensics and biometrics collection systems for counter-terrorism, and on the development of ground and space sensor systems.

In 2012 he went to the OSD to lead the development of new capabilities in data security and biometrics, vehicle telematics, and RFID devices, from where he retired in January 2015.

Affiliation(s)

VP Finances

IEEE AESS

United States

AESS Secondary Representative

Walter Downing

President (2020-2021)

IEEE AESS

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

CASS Primary Representative

Rajiv Joshi

IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

ComSoc Primary Representative

Nelson Fonseca

Professor

Institute of Computing of the University of Campinas

Brazil

9 (Latin America)

ComSoc Secondary Representative

Michele Nogueira

Associate Professor

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Brazil

9 (Latin America)

CS Primary Representative

Cecilia Metra

Professor

University of Bologna

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Cecilia Metra

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Cecilia Metra is a full professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, where she has worked since 1991, and from which she received a PhD in electronic engineering and computer science. In 2002, she was visiting faculty consultant for Intel Corporation.

Metra has been a member of the IEEE Computer Society (CS) Board of Governors since 2013, and of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation Board of Governors since 2015. She was 2017 vice president of CS Member and Geographic Activities, and served as CS Secretary in 2015 and Vice President for Technical and Conference Activities in 2014.

Metra was editor in chief of Computing Now and associate editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers. She is on the IEEE The Institute Advisory Board as well as on editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Design&Test, Journal of Electronic Testing, and Design Automation for Embedded Systems.

She served as first vice chair of the Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC), chair of the TTTC Educational Program, and chair of the TTTC Communication Group. She contributed to numerous IEEE international conferences/ symposia/workshops as general/program chair/co-chair (14 times), vice-general/program chair/co-chair (6 times), topic/track chair (34 times), and technical program committee member (91 times).

Metra has published extensively (185+ papers) on design for test and reliability of integrated circuits and systems. Her research has received public and private funding (from companies such as Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics, etc.) at national and international levels. Her involvement with industry was also recognized by a joint patent with Philips Research.

She has received two Meritorious Service Awards and five Certificates of Appreciation from the IEEE CS. Metra is an IEEE Fellow, IEEE CS Golden Core Member, and a member of the IEEE Honor Society IEEE-HKN.

Affiliation(s)

Professor

University of Bologna

Italy

CS Secondary Representative

Jyotika Athavale

Functional Safety Architecture

NVIDIA

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Jyotika Athavale

6 (Western U.S.)

Biography

Jyotika Athavale is a Senior Technical Leader and Functional Safety Architect at Nvidia Corporation. Prior to this she worked as Principal Engineer and lead Functional Safety Architect at Intel Corporation. She is a recognized industry expert with in-depth technical knowledge of platform technologies and architectures for Automotive, Transportation and Avionics Safety Critical Systems, also with expertise in radiation effects modeling for soft errors performance. Based in the US, her 24 years of industry career experience in the semiconductor and EDA industry has spanned technical leadership positions as well as people management roles.

Jyotika is currently leading and influencing international standards activities in the area of functional safety and dependability. She is a board member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors and a Distinguished Visitor with the IEEE Computer Society. Jyotika serves as a member of the IEEE Computer Society Audit Committee and also an IEEE CS representative to the IEEE Systems Council. A frequent conference speaker at international leading conferences, she actively contributes to these IEEE events via papers, invited talks and panel presentations. Jyotika has authored several IEEE publications and is a core team member of the IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community for Reliable, Safe, Secure and Time Deterministic Intelligent Systems. She holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.

Affiliation(s)

Functional Safety Architecture

NVIDIA

United States

CSS Primary Representative

Amir G. Aghdam

Concordia University

Canada

7 (Canada)

Amir G. Aghdam

7 (Canada)

Biography

Amir G. Aghdam (S’96–M’01–SM’07) 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, QC, Canada, and an Associate Dean of the Student Affairs and Postdoctoral Studies, The School of Graduate Studies. His research interests include multi-agent networks, distributed control, optimization, and sampled-data systems.

He is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario. He has been 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 has been served as a member of evaluation committees/panels for grant organizations in the U.S. (NSF), Canada (NSERC), Italy (ANVUR), and Denmark (EUREKA). He was a recipient of the 2009 IEEE MGA Achievement Award and the 2011 IEEE Canada J. J. Archambault Eastern Canada Merit Award. He was the 2014–2015 President of the IEEE Canada and the Director (Region 7), IEEE, Inc., and he was also a member of the IEEE Awards Board for this period. is currently a member of IEEE Medal of Honor Committee. He was a Visiting Scholar with Harvard University in 2015, and he was an Associate Professor with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, from 2015 to 2016. He is also the Chair of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a Senior Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Affiliation(s)

Concordia University

Canada

CTSoc Primary Representative

Chih-Peng Fan

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

National Chung Hsing University

Taiwan

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Chih-Peng Fan

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Biography

Chih-Peng Fan received the B.S., M.S., and, and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1991, 1993 and 1998, respectively. During October 1998 to January 2003, he was a design engineer for the cable modem and multimedia transmission project at the Customer-Provided Equipment (CPE) and Interface Technology Department (N100), Computer and Communications Research Laboratories (CCL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan. In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan as an Assistant Professor. He became an Associate Professor in 2007, and a full Professor in 2013. He has more than 110 publications, including technical journals, technical reports, book chapters, and conference papers. His teaching and research interests include deep-learning for digital image processing and pattern recognition, digital video coding and processing, digital baseband transceiver design, VLSI design for digital signal processing, and fast prototype of DSP systems with FPGA and embedded SOC platform.

He served and is serving as: TPC Co-Chair of ICCE-TW 2016; TPC Chair of ICCE-TW 2017; General Chair of ICCE-TW 2018; General Co-Chair of ICCE-TW 2019; Special Session Organization Chair of ICCE-TW 2020 and ICCE-TW 2021; International Coordinators of GCCE 2019 and GCCE 2020; Special Session Chairs of GCCE 2019, GCCE 2020, and IEEE LifeTech 2021; Track Chairs of ICCE 2020 and 2021; TPC Co-Chair of ICCCI 2020 and ICCCI 2021; Publicity Co-Chair of ICIET 2020; Member of Editorial Boards of Journal of Image and Graphics; He is a member of Taiwan IC Design Society (TICD), IEICE, and IEEE.

Affiliation(s)

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

National Chung Hsing University

Taiwan

CTSoc Secondary Representative

Lucio Ciabattoni

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Lucio Ciabattoni

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Lucio Ciabattoni (S’11-M’15) obtained the Automation Engineering Degree in 2010 (cum laude) and his PhD in Information Engineering in 2014 from the Politechnic University of Marche. In 2012/2013, he was a visiting scholar at The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Founder and CEO of the start-up META srl in April 2014 and Revolt srl since January 2017. Lucio is also a lecturer of Assistive Technologies and Home Automation since 2016. His research is related to human computer/machine interaction, residential energy management and eHealth. Lucio is a co-author of more than 80 international publications including 20+ CE society conferences publications. He cooperated with several other relevant research groups over the world and participated in different EU funded projects in the green energy field.

IEEE Activities:
- General Chair, 2019 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Technologies (ISCT
2019 – Formerly ISCE)
- Chair IEEE Italy Section Consumer Electronics Society Chapter (2017 - present)
- Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (2017 - present)
- Technical Program Chair, ICCE Berlin 2018
- Publication Chair, ICCE Berlin 2017
- Technical Program Co-Chair, ZINC 2018, ZINC 2019, ICCE Berlin 2019
- CE Society DL committee (2019 - present)

Lucio has been actively serving as TCP, trackchair and reviewer of many CE conferences as IEEE
ICCE Vegas (2016 - present), IEEE ICCE Berlin (2016 - present), ZINC (2018 - present).

He also serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Affiliation(s)

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Italy

IAS Primary Representative

Georges Zissis

University of Toulouse

France

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Georges Zissis

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Born in Athens in 1964, has graduated in 1986 from Physics department of University of Crete in general physics. He got his MSc and PhD in Plasma Science in 1987 and 1990 from Toulouse 3 University (France). He is today Distinguish-class Professor in Toulouse 3 University (France). His primary area of work is in the field of Light Sources Science and Technology. He is especially interested in the physics of electrical discharges used as light sources; system and metrology issues for solid-state lighting systems; normalization and quality issues for light sources; impact of lighting to energy, environment, quality of life, health and security; interaction between light source and associated power supply; illumination and lighting. He is director of “Light & Matter” research group of LAPLACE that enrolls 20 researchers. He has published more than 156 paper in referenced scientific journals (Hisch index 22 according scopus), more than 300 papers in international conferences. He has given more than 90 invited lectures at international and national events. He was advisor for 36 PhD students. He has coordinated more than 10 major European and international programs (global budget of more than 10 million euros). He won in December 2006 the 1st Award of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) Centenary Challenge for his work on normalization for urban lighting systems (in conjunction with IEEE, IET and the Observer). In 2009, he won the Energy Globe Award for France and he got the Fresnel Medal from the French Illuminating Engineering Society. In 2011 has been awarded the title of Professor Honoris Causa of Saint Petersburg State University (Russian Federation) and he was President of the Power Electronics, Electronics, Optoelectronics and System section of the French National Council of Universities for the period 2014-19. He was President of IEEE Industrial Application Society for 2019-20. He is Chairman of the 4E-Solid State Lighting Annex of the International Energy Agency (2020-24).

Affiliation(s)

University of Toulouse

France

IAS Secondary Representative

David Eng

Tech. Marketing & Sales Co.

6 (Western U.S.)

IES Primary Representative

Okyay Kaynak

Professor Emeritus

Bogazici University

Turkey

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Okyay Kaynak

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Okyay Kaynak received the B.Sc. (first-class honors) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U. K., in 1969 and 1972, respectively.

From 1972 to 1979, he held various positions within the industry that included 3.5 years in Saudi Arabia, working as a project engineer. In 1979, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has served as the Chairman of the Computer Engineering and the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Departments and as the Director of Biomedical Engineering Institute at this university. Currently he is an Emeritus Professor, holding the title of UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics.

He has held long-term (near to or more than a year) Visiting Professor/Scholar positions at various institutions in Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, U.S., Singapore and China. He was, in 2013, awarded the prestigious “1000 People” Program professorship at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Dr. Kaynak’s current research interests are in the broad field of intelligent systems. He has authored three books, edited five and authored or coauthored more than 400 papers that have appeared in various journals, books and conference proceedings.

Dr. Kaynak is a fellow of IEEE. He is or has served on the Editorial or Advisory Boards of a number of scholarly journals. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics during 2005-2006, IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics during 2014-2016 and Co-Editor in Chief of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics during 2009-2012. Dr. Kaynak is active in international organizations, has served on many committees of IEEE and was the president of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society during 2002-2003. He received IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2001), IEEE/IES Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award (2005) and IEEE/IES Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelman Achievement Award (2011). Most recently, he received the China Friendship Award (2016), Humboldt Research Prize (2016) and International Academy Prize of Turkish Academy of Sciences (2020).

Affiliation(s)

Professor Emeritus

Bogazici University

Turkey

IES Secondary Representative

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

IMS Primary Representative

Shreekanth Mandayam

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rowan University

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Website

Shreekanth Mandayam

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Website

Biography

Dr. Shreekanth Mandayam is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rowan University. Previously, he was the Vice President for Research and the Executive Director of the South Jersey Technology Park from 2011-2018 and the Chair of the ECE Department from 2006-2011. He has held Sabbatical appointments as a Research Consultant for GE-Global Research, John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bangalore, India, and as a Research Associate for The National Academies, at NASA Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. Dr. Mandayam received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics Engineering in 1990 from Bangalore University, India. He received his M.S. degree (Electrical Engineering) in 1993 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Communications and Signal Processing) in 1996 from Iowa State University.

Dr. Mandayam’s research expertise is in the area of imaging, image processing, multi-sensor data fusion, advanced visualization and virtual reality. He directs research in the Virtual Reality Center in the South Jersey Tech Park and Joint Health Sciences Center, which supports research projects sponsored by the US Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, NASA, US Navy, US Economic Development Administration, US Department of Energy, American Cancer Society, ExxonMobil, Elekta AB, etc.

Dr. Mandayam teaches courses in Digital Image Processing, Electrical Communications Systems and Artificial Neural Networks.

Dr. Mandayam is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He was the Student Activities Chair for IEEE-Region 2 (Eastern United States) from 2004-2008. He served on the Research & Development Council of New Jersey (2012-2018), the Scientific Advisory Council of the University City Science Center (2012-2018), the Vice President of Conferences for the IEEE Systems Council (2015-2016), Vice President for Publications (2011-2012) and Vice President of Finance (2009-2010) for the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society.

Affiliation(s)

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rowan University

United States

IMS Secondary Representative

Ruth A. Dyer

Retired

Kansas State University

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Ruth A. Dyer

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Biography

Ruth A. Dyer is the senior vice provost for academic affairs emeritus and professor of electrical and computer engineering emeritus at Kansas State University. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in biochemistry from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Kentucky. She was inducted into the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Engineering Hall of Distinction in April 2013, and currently serves on the UK College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council.

Dr. Dyer is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is currently serving as the Junior Past President of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement (I&M) Society. She served as the President of the IEEE I&M Society during the calendar years 2016 and 2017, and in various other officer positions of the I&M Society over the past 12 years. She has served on the I&M Administrative Committee (AdCom) since 1999. In 2017, she was appointed to serve on the IEEE TAB AdHoc Committee on Design for Ethics, and in 2018 was appointed to serve on the TAB AdHoc Committee on Contracts and as the Chair of the CRFID Advisory Committee. She received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Distinguished Service Award in 2011.

She also is a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and is a Senior Member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). During the 2003-2004 academic year, she was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow and served at The Ohio State University.

Affiliation(s)

Retired

Kansas State University

United States

ITS Primary Representative

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

MTT-S Primary Representative

Amir Mortazawi

Professor

University of Michigan

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

Website

MTT-S Secondary Representative

Nils Pohl

Ruhr University Bochum

Germany

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

PELS Primary Representative

Ernie Parker

Crane Aerospace & Electronics

United States

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

PELS Secondary Representative

Jian Sun

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

PSES Primary Representative

Stefan Mozar

Australia

10 (Asia and Pacific)

PSES Secondary Representative

Kim Fung Tsang

Associate Professor

City University of Hong Kong Dept of Electronic Eng

Hong Kong SAR China

10 (Asia and Pacific)

RAS Primary Representative

Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal

University of Houston

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

SMCS Primary Representative

Thomas I. Strasser

Senior Scientist

AIT Austrian Inst of Technology GmbH Center for Energy

Austria

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Thomas I. Strasser

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Thomas Strasser received a master's and a PhD degree from Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and was awarded with the venia docendi (habilitation) in the field of automation from the same university. For several years, he has been a senior scientist in the Center for Energy of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. His main responsibilities involve strategic development of smart grid automation and validation research projects and mentoring/supervising junior scientist and PhD candidates. Before joining AIT, Dr. Strasser spent several years as senior researcher investigating reconfigurable automation systems at PROFACTOR and some years at TU Wien as project assistant work on control-related topics. He is active as a senior lecturer (Privatdozent) at TU Wien.

He is the co-author of more than 200 scientific publications (journal publications, book editorials and chapters, conference papers, editorial of conference proceedings, technical reports) as well as two patents in the above-mentioned areas. Thomas Strasser has presented results of his research work in various international and national conferences, workshops, events, and seminars. He is an active member in various program committees of scientific conferences and serves as editorial board member/associate editor of Springer, Hindawi, MPDI, and IEEE Journals.

Dr. Strasser was and is involved as scientific and/or sub-project coordinator in several national and international research projects. In addition, he is an evaluator of research proposals and projects for several national and European funding agencies. He is member of international IEC and IEEE standardization working groups and senior member of IEEE where he is also involved in several activities of the IES (AdCom member-at-large 2018-2020, TC Cluster Delegate - Energy 2020-2021), SMCS (BoG member-at-large 2018-2020, VP SSE 2021-2022), PES, System Council and IEEE Austria Section (secretary 2015-2017, vice chair 2020, chair 2021-2023). He servers also as the Austrian representative in the CIGRE study committee C6.

Affiliation(s)

Senior Scientist

AIT Austrian Inst of Technology GmbH Center for Energy

Austria

SMCS Secondary Representative

Ferial El-Hawary

BH Engineering Systems Ltd.

Canada

7 (Canada)

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Ferial El-Hawary

7 (Canada)

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Biography

Dr. Ferial El-Hawary, IEEE- Life Fellow

Dr. Ferial El-Hawary (M'82-S'86-F'99) received the B.Eng. degree from University of Alexandria, and the M. Sc. from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in Electrical Engineering; and the Ph.D. in Oceans Engineering from MUN, Canada. Dr. El-Hawary is President of BH Engineering Systems Ltd. She served on the Faculty of Engineering at Dalhousie University, where she established and directed the Modeling & Signal Analysis Research Laboratory. Sustained research contribution devoted to OCEANS Application with significant impact on defense, navigation and Oil & Gas exploration. She has published widely in IEEE Journals. She is Editor-in-Chief of The Ocean Engineering Handbook and served as Associate Editor of IEEE Oceanic Engineering Journal. With more than twenty-five years experience in teaching Electrical and Signal Processing for Oceanic Engineering applications, she has made significant and sustainable contributions in promoting and developing continuing education programs. She is the founder of the Modeling and Signal Analysis Research Laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering at Dalhousie University, and founder of BH Engineering Systems Ltd., specializing in technology transfer and professional development courses, linking academic innovations to industrial needs.

Ferial has been invited by many of the IEEE International Conferences and University Institutions as a Plenary Keynote Speaker. Recently, invited as Keynote Speaker at IEEE Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR’2019), Beijing, China April 2019, and invited by the World Ocean Council (WOC/SOS’19), Muscat, Oman, Feb. 2019. Also, invited by HKUST Univ. Hong Kong, January 2018, talk on: “Overview of Robotics Evolutions Emphasizing Underwater Applications”, Invited by the World Ocean Council (WOC/SOS’17), Halifax, NS, Canada, December 2017, Also accepted invitation by Guangdong Univ., EE Dept., Guangzhou, China, April 2017.

Ferial has been a devoted IEEE volunteer for over 30 years by serving IEEE and Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) with many different capacities. Served IEEE-Board of Directors, Board MGA (2008-2009), IEEE-Honorary Membership Committee and IEEE Fellows Committee member. Served EEE/OES Administrative Committee Member as OES Vice-President International Activities, and OES Membership Committee Chair. Ferial is recognized for her leadership in establishing many of the OES Chapters Globally. Served many of IEEE OCEANS Conferences as General Chair and Co-Chair, as well as IEEE Section Congress’08.

Ferial is the recipient for many awards recognizing her contributions with devoting services to IEEE and some of its Technical Societies: She is the recipient of 2017 -“Murugan Memorial Award” for her contributions to the Canadian Atlantic Section and IEEE, the IEEE-Systems Man & Cybernetics Society (SMC) Outstanding Contribution Award, 2008, IEEE- Educational Activities Board (EAB) Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education, 2007, Marine Technology Society (MTS) Ocean Engineering Compass International Award, 2005, the J.J. Archambault IEEE/Eastern Canada Council Merit Award, 2002, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000, IEEE/RAB Achievement Award, 1999 IEEE/OES Distinguished Service Award, 1997, Fellow of MTS, 1985, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC),1997 and She is a Fellow of IEEE since1999 .

Dr. Ferial El-Hawary, F. IEEE, F.EIC, F.MTS
IEEE- Board of Directors 2008-2009
IEEE/OES Board Member 2019-2021
IEEE/Division IX Director-Elect Candidate 2019
IEEE Fellows Evaluation Committee, 2019-2020
Former, Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie Univ.
President BH Engineering Systems Ltd.

Affiliation(s)

BH Engineering Systems Ltd.

Canada

SSIT Primary Representative

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.

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Professor

University of Kansas, Lawrence

United States

SSIT Secondary Representative

Prasanta Ghosh

Professor

Syracuse University

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

TEMS Primary Representative

Andy Chen

Catronic Enterprise

United States

7 (Canada)

Andy Chen

7 (Canada)

Biography

Andy Chen is the President & CEO of a global consulting firm. The firm’s principle business is to provide consulting services for utility industry worldwide. Andy is a senior business advisor for several leading global consulting firms and enterprise software vendors. Andy has over 30 years of experience in utility sectors specializing in Nuclear Power Generation. For the past eight years, Andy has been assisting leading global consulting firms in business development for the Nuclear Utilities in China and in North America. In recent years, Andy had provided advices on Enterprise Asset Management best practices for power generations to several government agencies and State Owned Enterprises (SOE) in China and Australia.

Andy is a member of Board of Governors and the 2018 vice president of the Professional and Educational Activities Board for IEEE Computer Society. 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 with XPRIZE Foundation, the World Computer Congress, the World CIO Forum, and the Digital Africa Conference.

Andy is a partner of REDDS Venture Investment partners which empower disruptive start-ups that scale worldwide and have billion dollars plus potential through team building, global business development, financing, mentoring, and strategy. Andy held the position of the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture of a Canadian-based electricity generator. He also has extensive experience in a variety of engineering and systems roles within the company including managing a project to replace the obsolete direct control computers in a nuclear station which was the first successful implementation in the Nuclear Industry.

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Catronic Enterprise

United States

TEMS Secondary Representative

Mark Wehde

Division of Engineering

Mayo Clinic

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

Mark Wehde

4 (Central U.S.)

Biography

Mark Wehde is chair of the Mayo Clinic Division of Engineering, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, fellow in the Mayo Clinic Academy of Educational Excellence, and associate lecturer for the University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium program.

Mark is the executive leader of a team of engineers, software developers, and project managers providing development and integration of technology solutions across Mayo Clinic.

Mark is on the board of governors for the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, is an affiliate for the University of Minnesota Medical Industry Leadership Institute, and is a member of both the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Network of Digital Health Experts and the 5G-enabled Medical Device Workgroup.

Mark is a juror for the Medical Design Excellence Awards, the R&D 100 Awards, and the Edison Awards. He is also a member of the South Dakota State University Electrical Engineering Industry Advisory Board and an Advisory Board Member for the Clinician Engineer Hub at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Imperial College London, and King’s College London.

Mark received a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Iowa State University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, and a Master of Business Administration through the University of Wisconsin.

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Division of Engineering

Mayo Clinic

United States

VTS Primary Representative

Fabrice Labeau

Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning)

McGill University

Canada

7 (Canada)

VTS Secondary Representative

Alexander Wyglinski

Professor

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Alexander Wyglinski

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Alexander M. Wyglinski is an internationally recognized expert in wireless communications, cognitive radio, 5G, connected vehicles, software-defined radio, dynamic spectrum access, satellite communications, vehicular technology, wireless system optimization and adaptation, autonomous vehicles, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Wyglinski is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Full Professor of Robotics Engineering (courtesy appointment) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA, as well as the Director of the Wireless Innovation Laboratory (WI Lab). Dr. Wyglinski is very active in the technical community, serving on the organizing committees of numerous technical conferences and several journal editorial boards. These activities include serving as the General Co-Chair for the 82nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in Fall 2015, as well as Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine. From January 2018 to December 2019, Dr. Wyglinski served as the President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, an applications-oriented society of approximately 5000 members that focuses on the theoretical, experimental, and operational aspects of electrical and electronics engineering in mobile radio, motor vehicles, and land transportation. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Wyglinski has published approximately 45 journal papers, over 120 conference papers, nine book chapters, and three textbooks. He is currently being or has been sponsored by organizations such as The MathWorks, Toyota InfoTechnology Center U.S.A., Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Naval Research Laboratory, MITRE Corporation, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Wyglinski is a Senior Member of the IEEE, as well as a member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the ASEE.

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Professor

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

United States