Monday 24 August: 15.30 – 17.00
Breakout Session 2: IEEE Society/Council Case Studies
Lead
Roberto de Marca
J. Roberto de Marca, LFIEEE, was the 2014 IEEE President and CEO. He was also 2008 IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities and the 2000-2001 IEEE Communications Society President. He presently Chairs the Technical Activities Committee on Outreach, Engagement and Society Membership and the IEEE Election Oversight Committee.
Case Study 1 – From Membership to Movement
Time: 15.30 – 16.00
Location: Carron 1 (Mezzanine Level)
People stay where they feel connected, valued, and supported. In the IEEE Computer Society, we are making membership more personal by strengthening local chapter communities, building closer relationships between chapters and sections, and ensuring that every member knows there is someone ready to help them grow. Through mentorship, peer networks, and a continuous chain of leaders developing future leaders, we are creating meaningful connections that last beyond individual events. We are also making volunteer opportunities a true benefit of membership, enabling members to build leadership skills, expand their networks, and give back to the community. By partnering closely with developing chapters and providing hands-on support, we can help every community thrive. We are a global society, but every member should feel that they belong to a local community that invests in their success.
Speaker
Biswarup Ray
Vice Chair of Student and Young Professional Activities
Biswarup Ray is a Lead AI engineer and researcher at Bayer, specializing in Generative AI, agentic systems, and enterprise AI, where he builds scalable AI solutions for real-world applications. As Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Students & Young Professionals (SYP) Committee, he is passionate about strengthening member engagement, fostering global collaboration, and empowering the next generation of technology leaders through mentorship, leadership development, and meaningful volunteer opportunities.
Case Study 2 – New Members and Volunteer Engagement (UFFCS)
Time: 16.00 – 16.30
Location: Carron 1 (Mezzanine Level)
Featuring how UFFC society has been encouraging the existing and new members to engage in volunteering, and how it was fostered through leadership, culture and creative initiatives.
Speaker
Sohee Kim
Chair of Volunteer Engagement Committee, IEEE UFFC
Sohee Kim is VP of Operations at a therapeutic ultrasound device company, Acoustiic Inc. With majority of career in project management of medical ultrasound device product development, she is an activator who makes things happen, driving the team toward common goals and initiatives. She is keen on team development, mentoring, and initiatives for greater good of society.
Case Study 3 – Advancing Industry Applications Through Member-Focused Growth
Time: 16.30 – 17.00
Location: Carron 1 (Mezzanine Level)
Speaker
Payman Dehghanian
Membership Department Chair
Dr. Payman Dehghanian (IEEE SM’20) received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2009, an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2011, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2017. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA in 2018, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has been active in IEEE IAS activities since 2014 and has been leading the society’s newly-formed Membership Department since January 2026. He is currently a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
Lead
Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Biostatics and Computational Biology, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He had also directed the Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS), a New York State-supported center at the university promoting joint university-industry research and technology development. He is a fellow of the IEEE and serves on both TAB and PSPB as Chair of the TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee.
Case Study 1 – Journal/Conference Synergy (SEN)
Time: 15.30 – 16.00
Location: Alsh 2
The Sensors Council launched the Journal‑Conference Synergy initiative in 2024, allowing authors of popular pre‑published papers to present at their chosen conferences. The program tracks whether conference exposure increases paper usage and citations. Success is measured by these improvements and higher conference attendance, with impact reporting expected in coming years ahead.
Speaker
Anil Roy
President, IEEE Sensors Council
Dr. Anil Roy is the President of IEEE Sensors Council which is devoted to sensors, theory, design, fabrication, manufacturing, reliability and applications of devices for sensing and transducing physical, chemical, and biological phenomena, with emphasis on the electronics, physics and reliability aspects of sensors and integrated sensor-actuators. Dr. Roy is a Professor at Plaksha University, Mohali (India). His main academic interest areas are sensors, fiber optics, semiconductor physics, applications of technologies for humanitarian challenges. He is a senior member of IEEE. He has been involved in various efforts of spreading awareness about cyber security among students, parents and professionals as well. He was 2020-21 & 2022-23 VP, Technical Operations of IEEE Sensors Council, 2019-2020 Chair of the IEEE Conference Publications Committee, and 2012-2013 Member of MGA Geographic Unit Operations Support committee. He was recipient of 2019 IEEE India Council Section Chair Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017 IEEE Sensors Council Meritorious Service Award, 2012 MGA Leadership Award and 2010 Outstanding Volunteer Award, IEEE Region 10.
Case Study 2 – Building Successful Publications – APS
Time: 16.00 – 16.15
Location: Alsh 2
This breakout session will explore best practices for sustaining successful Society publications that effectively serve both academic/research audiences and industry practitioners. Through two case studies, participants will discuss how high-impact Transactions and engaging newsletters can complement one another to deliver relevant information and member value. In this presentation, we will also discuss how we continually evolve these publications to ensure the material is relevant and interesting to our communities.
Speaker
Rod Waterhouse
Rod Waterhouse is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Pharad/Octane Wireless. He is world-renowned for his innovative approaches to creating optimally performing antennas as well as highly efficient radio over fiber communication links. During his career, Dr. Waterhouse has undertaken pioneering endeavors in both academia and venture backed industry, focusing on breakthrough technologies in antennas, electromagnetics and microwave photonics engineering. Dr. Waterhouse is an IEEE Fellow.
Case Study 3 – Building Successful Publications – BTS
Time: 16.16 – 16.30
Location: Alsh 2
This breakout session will explore best practices for sustaining successful Society publications that effectively serve both academic/research audiences and industry practitioners. Through two case studies, participants will discuss how high-impact Transactions and engaging newsletters can complement one another to deliver relevant information and member value. In this presentation, we will also discuss how we continually evolve these publications to ensure the material is relevant and interesting to our communities.
Speaker
Maurizio Murroni
Maurizio Murroni, Ph.D., professor of communications at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari, Italy. He Is associate editor for the IEEE transactions on broadcasting, Distinguished Lecture program chair and VP Conference for the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society. His research focuses on immersive communications, QoE, broadcast/multicast delivery on 5GB networks.
Case Study 4 – Periodicals Committee Mentoring Program
Time: 16.30 – 16.45
Location: Alsh 2
Speaker
Khaled Letaief
Chair Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Khaled B. Letaief is a globally recognized leader in wireless communications and networks whose pioneering work spans AI-enabled wireless systems, integrated sensing and communications, mobile cloud and edge computing, and 6G.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, he is also a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and has been named among the world’s 30 Most Influential Scholars in AI and the Internet of Things.
His distinguished honors include the 2024 IEEE James Evans Avant Garde Award, the 2024 Distinguished Purdue University Alumni Award, the 2022 IEEE Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, the 2019 IEEE ComSoc–Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, and the 2016 IEEE Marconi Prize Award in Wireless Communications, in addition to more than 20 IEEE Best Paper Awards.
Since joining The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1993, Professor Letaief has served in several senior leadership roles, including Senior Advisor to the President, Acting Provost, and Dean of Engineering.
He has also made exceptional contributions to IEEE and the global communications community as an IEEE Division Director and Board member, founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and President of the IEEE Communications Society from 2018 to 2019.
Professor Letaief received his B.S. degree with distinction, as well as his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, from Purdue University, USA. In 2022, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Case Study 5 – Mentoring Programs for Publications Volunteers
Time: 16.46 – 17.00
Location: Alsh 2
Speaker
Edward Au
Past Chair, IEEE TAB Committee on Standards
Edward is the 2026 to 2027 TAB Society and Council Review Committee chair, and the past Chair of TAB Committee on Standards.
Lead
Charles Jackson
When he came to TRW he worked on mm-wave mixers, FMCW radars, quasi-optical technology, and phased array technology. After the discovery of High Temperature Superconductivity, he supported microwave technology for the Superconducting Electronics Department. His team was the first group to successfully demonstrate a ferroelectric phase shifter. Later, he worked on a number of mm-wave radiometer programs, and he supported an LNA production effort. Dr. Jackson worked at Ditrans Corp., making digital transceivers for wireless communications. Later he worked at Raytheon SAS supporting phased array radars. He led the MTT effort to convert the MTT Transactions to a digital archive. Charlie Jackson is a Past President of the IEEE-MTT Society. Dr. Jackson recently retired from Northrop Grumman supporting space based programs. He chaired the IEEE Conferences Committee (ICC) in 2023-2024. He is currently the Division IV Director.
Case Study 1 – Outreach Symposium (UFFCS)
Time: 15.30 – 16.00
Location: Alsh 1
The society has been building a rolling program of smaller symposia covering areas of the globe which are not traditional locations for the flagship conferences. These build on the strong relationships and links founded within the UFFC society, both commercial and academic and have proved a great success. Past events include: 2024 South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium, Gujarat, India . 2024 Latin America Ultrasonics Symposium (LAUS), Montevideo, Uruguay. 2025 South Asian Ferroelectric Symposium (SAFS), Bengaluru, India. And soon to take place in June 2026 – the Central and Eastern Europe International Ultrasonic Symposium (CEEUS), Warsaw, Poland.
Speaker
Steven Freear
VP Symposia, UFFC-Society
Steven Freear is Professor of Ultrasonics and Embedded Systems at the University of Leeds. He has served numerous IEEE UFFC-Society roles including 2013-18 Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on UFFC (receiving distinguished service award), 2021 International Ultrasonics Symposium Technical Chair, 2019-22 UFFC VP Publications, and 2023 to date VP Symposia.
Case Study 2 – Expanding Data Center Engagement through Targeted Industry Outreach (IAS)
Time: 16.00 – 16.30
Location: Alsh 1
This case study examines a strategic initiative to grow IEEE IAS I&CPS Data Center Subcommittee participation through targeted marketing, conference engagement, digital publications, and standards development. By leveraging industry-focused outreach and standards development, the project aims to attract broader data center stakeholders to engage across the full range of I&CPS committees.
Speaker
F. Keith Waters
Industry Application Society (IAS) Industrial & Commercial Power System’s (I&CPS) Data Center Subcommittee, Vice-Chair
Keith Waters is Director of Industry Standards at Schneider Electric, where he leads company’s North American initiatives in product standards, installation codes, and compliance for circuit protection, automation, control, and cybersecurity. He also drives standards strategy supporting Data Center Applications. A Senior Member of IEEE, Mr. Waters serves on the IEEE Industrial Applications Society, executive board as their Standards Department Chair and Industrial & Commercial Power System’s (I&CPS) leadership team in multiple areas. He also serves on the IEEE‑SA Standards Board and chairs the Standards Review Committee (RevCom). Mr. Waters contributes to the IEEE 3000 Series and other industry standards.
Case Study 3 – Increasing Industry Engagement and Support at Events (APS, PHO, PES)
Time: 16.30 – 17.00
Location: Alsh 1
This case study presents how the IEEE Photonics Society uses conferences as platforms for sustained industry engagement. It highlights the role of its Industry Engagement Committee, examples of industry-focused programming, connections with standards and entrepreneurship initiatives, and lessons learned on integrating industry perspectives across Society activities through a coordinated approach.
SpeakerS
Time: 16.30 – 16.40
Rod Waterhouse
Rod Waterhouse is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Pharad/Octane Wireless. He is world-renowned for his innovative approaches to creating optimally performing antennas as well as highly efficient radio over fiber communication links. During his career, Dr. Waterhouse has undertaken pioneering endeavors in both academia and venture backed industry, focusing on breakthrough technologies in antennas, electromagnetics and microwave photonics engineering. Dr. Waterhouse is an IEEE Fellow.
Time: 16.40 – 16.50
Gabriella Bosco
president, IEEE Photonics Society
Gabriella Bosco is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino and President of the IEEE Photonics Society. An IEEE and Optica Fellow, she has held leadership roles in major international conferences, including OFC and IPC, and in leading IEEE publications, including serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology.
Time: 16.50 – 17.00
C.Y. Chung
President, IEEE Power & Energy Society
Prof. C.Y. Chung is the Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Chair Professor of Power Systems Engineering, Founding Director of InnoHK Research Centre for Intelligent GRID and Energy Technologies and Research Centre for Grid Modernisation at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He serves as the President of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES).
Lead
Deepak Uttamchandani
Case Study 1 – Mentoring Program with Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
Time: 15.30 – 16.00
Location: Dochart 2 (Mezzanine Level)
The IEEE CIS mentoring program was initiated by Prof. Christian Wagner (CIS technical committee member at that time). This program represents a unique opportunity for mentees to engage directly with leaders in the field, enriching their research experience and enhancing their career trajectories including Mentor-Mentee Networking and Paper Development Workshop.
Speaker
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul
Vice President for Member Activities, IEEE CIS
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul (S’98–M’01–SM’09) received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from the Chiang Mai University, Thailand (1993), the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering and Ph.D. degree in computer engineering and computer science, both from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1996, and 2000, respectively. After receiving her Ph.D. degree, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Computational Intelligence Laboratory, University of Missouri-Columbia. She was a director of the research administration center, Chiang Mai University (May 2010 – November 2012) and was a deputy director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute in the same university (November 2017 – September 2025). She is holding a position of an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering in the university. Dr. Auephanwiriyakul is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy System, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and ECTI Transactions on Computer and Information Technology. She was a general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2016). She was a general chair of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2024 (IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2024) and will be a general co-chairs of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2026 (IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2026). She was a Technical Program Chair, Organizing Committee in several major conferences including the IEEE International, Conference Fuzzy Systems. She is also a member of several important IEEE CIS technical committees. She is now served as the IEEE CIS VP-member activities for the year of 2025 – 2026.
Case Study 2 – Building a Successful Young Professional Program (AP-S)
Time: 16.00 – 16.30
Location: Dochart 2 (Mezzanine Level)
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Young Professionals (YP) won the prestigious 2023 IEEE Young Professionals Hall of Fame award from IEEE Young Professionals Committee. In this talk, we will present various activities introduced to engage the society’s YPs, which made the AP-S YP program a model for various IEEE Societies and Councils to follow.
Speaker
Dr. C.J. Reddy
President, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
Dr. C.J. Reddy is Siemens Fellow at Siemens Digital Industries Software. He served as Vice President, Business Development-Electromagnetics for Americas at Altair from 2014 to 2025 and transitioned to Siemens, with the acquisition of Altair by Siemens. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Visiting Fellowship to work at Communications Research Center in Ottawa during 1991-1993 and was awarded the US National Research Council (NRC) Resident Research Associateship in 1993 to work at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He also worked as Research Professor at Hampton University from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Reddy was the President of Applied EM, Inc (2000-2017) where he led several Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects for the DoD and NASA. He was also the President of EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc (2002-2014) and led the marketing of the EM Simulation tool, Feko in North America. EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc was acquired by Altair in 2014.
Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACES (Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society) and a Fellow of AMTA (Antenna Measurement Techniques Association). Dr. Reddy is a co-author of the book, “Antenna Analysis and Design Using FEKO Electromagnetic Simulation Software,” published in June 2014 by SciTech Publishing (now part of IET). Dr. Reddy served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He served as the Chair of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Young Professionals Committee during 2021-2024 and served on the AP-S AdCom during 2023-2024. Dr. Reddy is appointed to IEEE Fellows Committee by IEEE Board of Directors for the terms 2020-2021 and 2022-2023. Currently, Dr. Reddy is serving as the 2026 IEEE AP-S President. Dr. Reddy is inducted into IEEE Heritage Circle by the IEEE Foundation for establishing the “IEEE AP-S CJ Reddy Travel Grant for Graduate Students.”
Case Study 3 – AI-Based Mentorship Matching Platform (EMBS)
Time: 16.30 – 17.00
Location: Dochart 2 (Mezzanine Level)
SpeakerS
Time: 16.30 – 16.45
Anahita Kyani
Dr. Anahita Kyani is Director of Neuroscience, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence at Johnson & Johnson, where she leads AI-driven strategies for early detection of neurodegenerative disease. Her career spans academic research at the University of Michigan, AI-driven wearable platform development at Abbott, and FDA-cleared technology and digital biomarker work at Onward Medical, giving her a unique vantage point across academia, medical devices, and pharma. Within IEEE EMBS, Dr. Kyani serves as Chair of Women in Biomedical Engineering Leaders, where she champions mentorship and career advancement for young professionals across the field. She has developed multiple patents and her research has been published in several prestigious journals. She has spoken at venues including EMBC Copenhagen and IEEE Brain Vancouver. She is passionate about building bridges between AI innovation and real-world clinical impact in neuroscience.
Time: 16.45 – 17.00
Hisham ElMoaqet
Prof. Hisham ElMoaqet received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2015. He completed postdoctoral research in anesthesiology and mechanical engineering there before joining the German Jordanian University, where he is now a (Full) Professor of Mechatronics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). His research spans mechatronics, AI in healthcare, robotics, smart industry, and physiological signal processing, supported by high-impact publications and international collaborations with partners in the U.S. and Europe. He has held visiting research appointments in Germany at Humboldt University, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Furtwangen University. Since 2025, Prof. ElMoaqet has served on the IEEE EMBS Administrative Committee as Middle East and Africa Representative and chairs the IEEE Jordan Section EMBS Chapter. He is also a member of the EMBS CSPE Technical Committee and an Associate Editor of IEEE-JBHI. His leadership emphasizes collaboration, education, and expanding EMBS’s impact across the region.
Lead
Aylin Yener
VP-Elect, TAB
Aylin Yener is a chaired professor of electrical and computer engineering, computer science and engineering and integrated systems engineering at Ohio State. She is the IEEE VP-Elect for Technical Activities. Previously she served as IEEE Division IX director, president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. Her work is in wireless communications, AI, quantum information and information security.
Case Study 1 – Building and Operating a Society Education Board: Five Years of Lessons from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS)
Time: 15.30 – 16.00
Location: Carron 2 (Mezzanine Level)
Practical lessons from building and sustaining a Society Education Board: governance structure, program development, funding, and professional education activities. Based on five years leading the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Board, this session offers concrete, transferable insights for Societies looking to strengthen their education programs.
Speaker
Roxana Saint Nom
SPS Women in Signal Processing (WISP) Committee Chair (2026–2028); former IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President of Education (2023–2025)
Roxana Saint Nom is a Buenos Aires–based telecommunications engineer with 25 years in academia at ITBA and a decade in industry building AI, software, and hardware products. A long-time IEEE volunteer, she served as IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President of Education (2023–2025), where she built the Society’s Education Board, and now chairs the Women in Signal Processing Committee (2026–2028) and sits on the IEEE Educational Activities Board’s Continuing Education Committee.
Case Study 2 – NPSS International Schools (NPSS)
Time: 16.00 – 16.30
Location: Carron 2 (Mezzanine Level)
The Impact of IEEE NPSS International Schools in the next generations: This case study highlights the IEEE NPSS International Schools initiative, showcasing how immersive educational programs combining lectures, hands-on activities, and mentorship foster technical excellence, strengthen global collaboration, engage young professionals, and help build the next generation of volunteers and leaders within the IEEE NPSS community.
Speaker
Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro
IEEE NPSS Young Professionals Chair
Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro is a Research Scientist at CSIC (Spain) specializing in PET instrumentation and molecular imaging. She serves as Chair of the IEEE NPSS Young Professionals Committee, where she promotes international educational initiatives, volunteer engagement, leadership development, and opportunities for students and early-career professionals within NPSS.
Case Study 3 – IEEE Semiconductors: A Cross-Society Blueprint for Impact-added abstract
Time: 16.30 – 17.00
Location: Carron 2 (Mezzanine Level)
SpeakerS
Jamie Moesch
Managing Director, IEEE Educational Activities
Jamie leads the staff team of Educational Activities to achieve the shared vision of success built with partners on the Educational Activities Board, and other stakeholders throughout IEEE. His direct responsibilities involve developing strategy, and management of the education programs and products, offered by the unit including: continuing and professional education, pre-university education, university education, accreditation activities, awards, and IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN).
Notable Educational Activities programs launched under Jamie’s leadership were the creation of the TryEngineering Summer Institutes, the TryEngineering Together Mentoring Platform, the IEEE-Rutgers Mini-MBA, and the IEEE Learning Network.
Jennifer Fong
Jennifer Fong is a strategic education leader at IEEE who creates learning programs and products that equip engineers and technologists with in-demand skills. Leveraging expertise in product strategy, professional learning, and credentialing, she drives career-readiness initiatives globally to advance accessible, skills-based training and technical workforce development.
Lead
Dan Sabin
Chair, IEEE TAB Committee on Standards
Dan Sabin is an active leader in international standards development, contributing to IEEE and IEC projects across multiple technical disciplines. He chairs the IEEE TAB Committee on Standards, serves on the IEEE Standards Association Board of Governors, and is the IEEE Power & Energy Society Governing Board Member-at-Large for Global Engagement in Standards & Technology.
Case Study 1 – Building and Managing a Modern Standards Portfolio in the IEEE Power & Energy Society
Time: 15.30 – 16.00
Location: Boisdale 2
Speaker
Dan Sabin
Member-at-Large for Global Engagement in Standards & Technology, PES Governing Board
Dan Sabin is a long-time contributor to IEEE PES standards development, with leadership roles in technical committees focused on transmission, distribution, power system protection, and power quality. He serves on the IEEE Power & Energy Society Governing Board as Member-at-Large for Global Engagement in Standards & Technology and chairs the committee overseeing technical activities in Regions 9 and 10.
Case Study 2 – Beyond Technical Standards: Best Practices for Developing Socio-Environmental Technical Standards — Lessons from the IEEE SSIT Experience
Time: 16.00 – 16.30
Location: Boisdale 2
Speaker
Maike Luiken
Maike Luiken, PhD, LSMIEEE, IEEE-HKN, FCAE, FCAE, chairs IEEE Planet Positive 2030, the IEEE P7800 Working Group, Green Hydrogen and Accelerating Deployment of Advanced Nuclear Power Generation IEEE SA Industry Connections Activities. She is a co-chair, IEEE Future Directions SusTech Initiative. She is a Managing Director, R&D, Carbovate Development and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University.
Case Study 3 – Starting from Scratch: Establishing and Growing a Standards Portfolio
Time: 16.30 – 17.00
Location: Boisdale 2
The IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee (SPS-SASC) was established in late 2021 with a focus on the development, validation, and dissemination of technical standards that describe data interfaces, data formats, technical processes, procedures, and the hardware necessary to correctly perform scientific imaging (SI), computational imaging (CI) or computational sensing (CS). The SPS-SASC is one of the fastest-growing standards committees with more than 10 active projects and an increasing number of participants from industry and government. The SASC has also been organizing the Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA) conference, now in its 4th year. This presentation will describe, • how the committee was established, • the pivotal role and connection that was made between the SPS and the IEEE Standards Association (SA), • insights and lessons learned on how to lead a standards committee for continuing success, • best practices for attracting industry and academic stakeholders to participate.
Speaker
Peter Vouras
Systems Engineer, U.S. Department of Defense
Mr. Peter Vouras is the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee (SPS-SASC). He is with the U.S. Department of Defense and was previously with the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Radar Division at the Naval Research Laboratory.
Lead
Vesna Sossi
Case Study 1 – IEEE HART (MTT-S)
Time: 15.30 – 16.00
Location: Boisdale 1
HART (Hardware, AI, Research & Training) can be naturally framed as an inter-society collaboration within IEEE because it operates at the intersection of multiple technical domains that no single society fully covers. The convergence of AI and hardware inherently spans areas such as microwave engineering, solid-state circuits, computer architecture, communications, sensors, photonics, and systems engineering.
Speaker
Nuno Carvalho
Past President, MTT-S
Nuno Borges Carvalho (S’97–M’00–SM’05–F’15) was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1972. He received his Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 1995 and 2000, respectively.
He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Telecommunications and serves as Director of the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics at the University of Aveiro. He is a fellow from IEEE and URSI.
Prof. Borges Carvalho has co-authored several reference books, including Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003), Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013), White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics (Wiley, 2020), and Radio Frequency Identification Engineering (Cambridge University Press, 2025). He has authored or co-authored over 400 journal and conference publications.
He has served extensively in editorial roles, including Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Wireless Power Transfer Journal, Associate Editor of IEEE Microwave Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation.
He is co-inventor of six patents. His research interests include software-defined radio front-ends, backscatter communications, wireless power transmission, nonlinear distortion analysis, and measurement techniques for microwave and wireless circuits and systems. He has also contributed to the design of dedicated radio systems for emerging wireless technologies.
Prof. Borges Carvalho has held several leadership positions within IEEE, including Member of the MTT-S Administrative Committee (AdCom), Past Chair of the IEEE Portuguese Section, and Chair of Technical Committees TC-20 and TC-11, and member of TC-25 and TC-26. He also serves as Chair of URSI Commission A (Metrology Group). He is the Vice President for Conferences of the IEEE Council on RFID and served as President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) in 2023.
His distinctions include the 1995 University of Aveiro and Portuguese Engineering Association Prize (best graduating student), Third Place in the 1998 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Paper Competition, and the 2000 IEE Measurement Prize and the URSI John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal in 2025. He has also served as a Distinguished Lecturer for both the IEEE MTT-S and the RFID Council.
Case Study 2 – Engaging Students Through Circuit Insights (SSCS)
Time: 16.00 – 16.30
Location: Boisdale 1
Circuit Insights is an educational event directed at upper-level undergraduate and early graduate students. It was first introduced in 2022 at ISSCC and has expanded to multiple SSCS conferences. Each event is a multi-lecture workshop featuring expert speaker presentations on circuit topics with in-person attendance by invited student participants; talk recordings are offered through our YouTube channel.
Speaker
Tim Piessens
Member-at-large, SSCS Adcom
Tim Piessens is a professor at the MICAS laboratories of KU Leuven. Before returning to KULeuven, Tim was one of the co-founders of ICsense, a mixed-signal ASIC design house. For 20 years, he was CTO, responsible for the technical content of all projects. Before starting ICsense, he was research assistant at ESAT-MICAS, receiving a PhD from KU Leuven in 2003. His research focuses on ultra low power, high accuracy sensor interfaces and high voltage design for electrical vehicles. Tim was an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer from 2023 till 2024. He is a member of the ESSERC Steering Committee, the IEEE-SSCS Adcom and active in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of ESSERC and the TPC of ISSCC. Tim was ISSCC EU-TPC chair in 2021. Since 2026, he is vice-chair of the Technical Program Steering Board of the ESSERC conference.
Case Study 3 – Adopting the IEEE Strategic Plan and Goals as Your Own (PES, BTS, NPSS)
Time: 16.30 – 17.00
Location: Boisdale 1
SpeakerS
Time: 16.30 – 16.40
Tim Licitra
Executive Director & Group Lead, IEEE PES
Tim is the Executive Director for the IEEE Power & Energy Society where he oversees the society’s operations and staff, and partners with the Governing Board to help them execute on the mission and vision of PES. His background and experience are in nonprofit/association executive management, and Tim has been with IEEE since 2021.
Time: 16.40 – 16.50
Guy Bouchard
Guy Bouchard currently serves as Vice President of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, prior to retiring two years ago, Guy held a range of roles including lab engineer, senior manager of engineering, Director of Transmission, and Director of Technical Operations—at both CBC/Radio-Canada and Télé-Québec. His expertise spans analog and digital television transmission and production systems, as well as satellite and terrestrial microwave communications. He holds a degree in telecommunications from the Université du Québec and currently serves as Vice President of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Administrative Committee (AdCom)
Time: 16.50 – 17.00
Lorenzo Fabris
Vice President, NPSS
Lorenzo Fabris is Distinguished R&D Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vice-President of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. His career spans radiation detection, low-noise electronics, gamma-ray and neutron imaging, nuclear nonproliferation, homeland security, nuclear physics, and astrophysics, with prior roles at Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.