IEEE Information Theory Society Ad-hoc Committee on Diversity and Inclusion

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1 IEEE Information Theory Society Ad-hoc Committee on Diversity and Inclusion Elza Erkip June 2018, ISIT BoG Meeting 1

2 Background Approved in February 2018 Members Elza Erkip (chair) Stark Draper Sig Jaggi Tara Javidi Muriel Medard Emanuele Viterbo

3 Organization Met twice over Skype Initial tasks Collect data and create metrics Best practices for conferences, schools and committees Conference code of conduct (BoG charge) IEEE and Title IX

4 Meaning of Diversity Gender, geography Seniority Professional sector Ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation Disability.

5 Tasks Collect data and create metrics Gender and geographical diversity Not comprehensive, publicly available data Best practices for conferences, schools and committees Initial ideas Conference code of conduct IEEE is working on one, can leverage that IEEE and Title IX Contact IEEE

6 Gender Data: Awards Shannon Award Since awardees 1 woman IT Paper Award Since papers, 125 authors No woman

7 Gender Data: Awards Wolf Student Paper Award Since papers, 85 authors 3 women No women students

8 Gender Data: Committees Data does not include ex-officios Awards Committee (paper awards) Since 2004, 134 members 18 women, 13.4% : 11.1%, 2018: 50% Shannon Committee No women Nominations & Appointments No women

9 Lessons Learned Collect data and create metrics Complex, requires tracking Best practices for conferences, schools and committees Develop in accordance with scientific research, impact needs to be tracked Conference code of conduct Develop in accordance with IEEE conference code, mechanisms need to be evaluated IEEE and Title IX Need to work closely with the IEEE

10 Observations All of this done as meaning of diversity evolves Need a Standing Committee Address needs of ITSoc Work closely with IEEE Diversity and Inclusion Committee Charter needs to allow for room to grow

11 Motion Form a Standing Committee on Diversity and Inclusion

12 Appendix

13 ITSoc Membership statistics: Membership category and gender: Life (all life categories) Fellow Senior Member Member Student (graduate) Student (undergradate) Affiliate / associate totals female male unknown percent female 1.34% 6.48% 7.38% 7.89% 11.58% 23.94% 12.24% 7.70% ITSoc Membership statistics: Region and gender: Americas: IEEE Regions 1-6, 7, 9 Africa / Europe / Middle East: IEEE Region 8 Asia and Pacific: IEEE Region 10 female male unknown total percentage 47.0% 27.4% 25.6% Total

14 Gender composition of organizers of major conference (# women / total): IEEE Int. Symp Information Theory (ISIT) IEEE Information Theory Workship (ITW) Overall % female General Chairs 0/2 0/2 0/3 0/2 0/3 1/2 1/2 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 1/2 10% TPC 0/4 1/4 0/4 0/3 2/4 0/4 1/4 1/4 0/3 0/3 0/2 1/2 14.6% Rest of committee Plenary speakers 2/8 2/12 0/7 2/9 2/6 5/7 2/7 0/10 1/15 1/3 1/5 1/6 19.8% 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5 2/5 1/5 0/5 1/4 0/4 1/3 0/5 1/3 18.5% Gender composition of organizers of ITSoc schools (# women / total): Australia India School (JTG/ITSoc) European School (ESIT) North American School (NASIT) Africa Overall % female Organizers 2/6 1/6 * 1/7 1/9 0/8 0/8 0/4 0/3 0/4 0/3 1/3 0/5 1/7 0/7 0/5 2/7 0/5 0/5 8.8% Speaker 1/4 1/4 1/4 0/2 0/2 0/3 0/2 0/2 1/6 0/4 0/6 1/6 2/6 1/5 2/5 2/5 1/5 1/6 0/6 16.9%

15 Geographic distribution of organizers of major conference: IEEE Int. Symp Information Theory (ISIT) IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW) Total Percentage General Chairs TPC chairs Rest of organizing committee Plenary Speakers Americas: IEEE Regions 1-7,9 Africa / Europe / Middle East: IEEE Region 8 Asia and Pacific: IEEE Region 10 Americas: IEEE Regions 1-7,9 Africa / Europe / Middle East: IEEE Region 8 Asia and Pacific: IEEE Region 10 Americas: IEEE Regions 1-7,9 Africa / Europe / Middle East: IEEE Region 8 Asia and Pacific: IEEE Region 10 Americas: IEEE Regions 1-7,9 Africa / Europe / Middle East: IEEE Region 8 Asia and Pacific: IEEE Region % % % % % % % % % % % %

16 Gender composition of major ITSoc awards: ITSoc Best Paper Joint Comm /ITSoc Jack Wolf (ISIT student paper) Shannon Wyner Massy Cover Female 0 5 3* Total # recipients ** Percent female 0% 8.5% 3.7% 2.6% 7.1% 0% 25% * N.B., none of the 3 Jack Wolf female awardees were students, all were faculty supervisors. ** The Shannon Award has not been given every year. ITSoc Best Paper Joint Comm /ITSoc Jack Wolf (ISIT student paper) Shannon Wyner Massy Cover Americas: IEEE Regions 1-7, Africa / Europe / Middle East: IEEE Region Asia and Pacific: IEEE Region 10 2 Total

17 Best practices for schools and conferences: Schools: Organizing committee: Have at least one female member, consider other relevant types of diversity (ethnic, geographic) depending on where the school is held Speakers: Have at least one female speaker. Many schools have 5 speakers, so this is a target of 20%. For those that have other formats, e.g., mini-course + tutorials aim for this percentage in each averaged across time. Location: Schools should aim for geographic diversity. E.g., organizers should avoid holding the school more than once at the same institution, in the same region, in the same country (the correct measure of geographic diversity varies with the particular school) Statistics: Schools should collect statistics on attendees to be presented to the BoG and Schools Committee in their final report. Statistics to include include: (i) total number attendees, (ii) estimate of total number of attendee-days, (iii) breakdown of attendee counts into categories including students, faculty, young professionals, women/men, (iv) breakdown of attendees by 1st time school attendee, 2nd time, 3rd time or more.