IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SOCIETY ELECTION For Election of Members to the Board of Governors For a Three-Year Term 1 January 2015-31 December 2017 WAHAB ALMUHTADI (M 95-SM 05) is a professor and coordinator of Algonquin College/Carleton University Joint Degree Program Bachelor of Information Technology - Photonics and Laser Technology. He is also the R&D Coordinator at the Faculty of Technology and Trades, Algonquin College, Canada and he is providing academic leadership in applied research and conducting several research projects in optoelectronics, optical and wireless communications funded by NSERC, OCE, IC, CIDA, ORDCF, and PRECARN. He has and continues to establish very good relations with the industry, provincial and federal funding agencies, academia and engineering and technology organizations. He has more than 20 years of university and college teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He also has more than 26 year experience in opto-electronics and electrical engineering industries including R&D. Prior to Algonquin College, he worked with Nortel as a Team Leader and Senior System Engineer in Optical Networks R&D; Metro-Optical Solutions. He received many recognitions awards from IEEE, industry, and academia. He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic in 1986 and 1990 respectively. He is a Certified Professional Electrical Engineer of Ontario, Canada. IEEE Activities: Offices (not-listed-all): 2014-present: DL Chair and AdCom Member, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society 2008-present: Chair, CESoc/ComSoc/BTS Ottawa Joint-Chapter 2013-present: Chair, IEEE Canada Conference Advisory Committee-R7 2013-present: Centre for Leadership Excellence Committee Member, MGA 2013-present: Director, and Chair, Sections Liaison Committee, IEEE Canadian Foundation Committee-R7 2009-present: Member, IEEE Ottawa Section Senate 2008-present: ComSoc Canada-R7-Representative; Member, ComSoc North American Board 2005-present: Chair, Award Committee, Ottawa Section 1996-present: Chair, PES Ottawa Chapter 2010-2012: Chair, IEEE Eastern Canada (NB,NL,NS,ON,PE,QC)-R7 2009-2011: Member, Information Management, MGA 2007-2008: Chair, IEEE Ottawa Section 2007-2008: Member, IEEE Canada Board of Directors 2006: Vice-Chair IEEE Ottawa Section 2013: Nominated for Member of 2014 IEEE Governance Committee, IEEE Conferences (not-listed-all): 2016: Vice-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility 2015: G. Chair, IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 2013: Chair, Publication Committee and Advisor, IEEE Radar Conference 2012: Executive Conference Chair & Organizing Chair, International Conference on Communications 2011: Co-Chair, Steering Committee, IEEE Canada Electrical Power Conference 2010: Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, Information Photonics Conference 2010: Co-Chair, Local Arrangements, IEEE International Workshop on MeMeA Statement: With my almost 20 year services in different posts within IEEE (CESoc, ComSoc, BTS, PES, IEEE Canada, MGA, Ottawa Section/Chapters), I have the experience and knowledge to be highly effective. Consequently, if elected to serve in CE Society Board of Governors I believe that there are several areas that I can help and work passionately on: Increase the IEEE value that the CE Society members receive, and provide the members with innovative, relevant, and quality products and services (continuing education, practitioner journals and conferences, webinars, online forums and networking opportunities) to support the individual and professional development and to facilitate career security. Build a profound and successful correlation and interaction between the CE Society and its Chapters, and provide the chapters with support, training, and tools to increase the chapter activities and membership as this is the key to a vibrant and growing Society. Extend the CE Society relationship and coordination with IEEE Sections and Regions (333 sections in ten geographic regions worldwide R1-R10) to enhance the CE Society global visibility and membership. Improve and advance the Distinguished Lecture Program to accommodate the chapters needs. Enhance and promote the CE Society conferences and symposia. Outreach pre-university and pre-college students, and support IEEE student branch activities at local institutions. Provide support to CESoc Women in Engineering (WIE) and Graduates of the Last Decade Young Professionals (YP). Increase the recognition of volunteers as recognizing contributions creates motivation.
Support close collaboration between industry, academia, government, and the community at large. Increase CESoc participation and service to humanity and provide advancing technological innovation and excellence. Position CESoc to provide technical leadership in response to needs of rapidly changing industry. It would be a great honour to serve in CESoc Board of Governors. My enthusiasm and energy are pledged to you should I be granted this opportunity to serve. And therefore, I would like to ask for your support and vote. JOSEPH DECUIR (S 71-M 74-SM 03) has worked for over 44 years as an engineer, starting with his first Engineering Coop job as a student at UC Berkeley. His career spans consumer devices, computers, communications and medical devices. His major contributions: Leader and designer in video games and personal computer graphics (Atari and Amiga) Leader and editor of many public standards for wired and wireless connectivity (Everex, Microsoft, MCCI and Cambridge Silicon Radio) used in consumer electronics, particularly for dial up modems, for USB and for Bluetooth. Deployment of USB and of Bluetooth in mobile phones exceeds 10 billion devices. He received his BSEE and MS from UC Berkeley. He has been an IEEE member since 1970, and a senior member. Technical and Professional Experience: Engineering work areas: Medical Electronics: intensive care instrument design; one research paper Consumer electronics: Atari VCS video game console system and ASIC, and two game cartridges; Atari PCS system and ASICs; Amiga PCS and ASICs; mobile phones: 2G - GSM 7.07, TIA IS-99 and TIA IS-135; 3G - 3GPP and 3GPP2; USB Communications Device Class 1.0, 1.1, 1.2; Wireless Mobile Communications Class 1.0, 1.1; Bluetooth classic: Core v2.0 v2.1; Bluetooth Low Energy: Core 4.0 4.1 Computer communications: author and leader in dialup communications: ITU-T V.32bis, V.34, V.80, V.90; author and leader for dialup control; editor of ITU-T V.250, V.251, V.253, T.31, T.32; co-inventor of PC-fax modems; Microsoft Windows Networking program manager and architect; Ultra Wideband contributor to ECMA-368, editor of Wireless USB 1.1 Joe has 12 granted US Patents with related foreign equivalents. 2 applications were filed in 2013. IEEE Activities: Membership: Member since 1971; Senior member since 2003; Member of Consumer Electronics, Communications and Computer Societies. Technical contributions: 24 years of presentations in chapter meetings and conferences; CES distinguished lecturer 2013-2014; ICCE keynotes: LV 2013, LV 2014, ICCE Berlin 2014; Future Directions Speaker: IEEE Transportation Electrification Future Directions conference 2013; Two articles in CES Magazine: January 2014, April 2014; Presentations on short range wireless and on Maker technology for humanitarian uses. Leadership contributions: Seattle Section: chair of IEEE Communications Chapter from 1994-2003; Seattle Section officer: secretary, treasurer, vice chair and chair, 2003-2009 and 2013; Seattle Section Wireless workshops in 2002 and in 2009 program chair and speaker; Seattle Metropolitan Area Workshop 2013 general chair and speaker; Region 6 NW Area chair (Oregon, Washington and Alaska): 2010-2012 - Director s Award for leadership; Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: publications 2011-2012; vice chair 2014; chair 2015. Statement: Joe Decuir is a leader who is ready to serve in CES. Within CES he has the following goals: 1. Attract and keep CES practitioners, from within IEEE and from the rest of the industry who have not yet joined CES. 2. Recruit and contribute material for CES Magazine and other CES publications. 3. Promote CES membership in the young hacker/startup weekend/entrepreneur communities, including the Maker movement. 4. Promote cooperative relations between CES and with other IEEE Societies, particularly Computers and Communications. 5. Support CES contributions to IEEE Future Directions Committee, and contribute. 6. Where applicable, involve CES in humanitarian technologies. DANIEL DIAZ-SANCHEZ (M 06-SM 14) Born in Madrid in 1978, he obtained the Telecommunications Engineering Degree at the end of 2003 from the Carlos III University of Madrid. Immediately after finishing his studies in 2004, he joined the Telematics Engineering Department of Carlos III University (Jan 2004). Within that department, he worked as a researcher cooperating with Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory team. He obtained the MSC degree in Telematics in 2006 with a final dissertation on Distributed Access Control, a research line that continued for his Ph.D. During the period from June 2004 until October 2006 he founded his own company while keeping his position at the university. He left the company to focus on research and finish his Ph.D.
In January 2008, he defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Contributions to protocols and analysis and decision mechanisms for access control in distributed environments obtaining unanimously the grade A with Honours (Cum Laude). Moreover, he was given the Special Ph.D. Award from the Ministry of Education and the Carlos III University of Madrid, and the best Ph.D. thesis award on electronic commerce financed by La Caixa as part of the awards promoted by the National Telecommunication Engineering Association. In 2009 visited TU Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and the Fraunhofer Institute during a research stay that was funded by a competitive grant given by the Spanish Ministry of Education. He was given the IEEE Chester Sall Award in 2013. Since 2012 he is an associate professor of the Telematics Engineering Department. He is married and has a pretty baby girl called Cayetana. Technical & Professional Experience: Since he joined up with the Carlos III University as researcher until his current activity as associate professor, he has been researching on content protection, tamper proof devices (smart cards, chips, and commercial video scramblers/descramblers), identity management, personalization and contextualization of services. As part of the research activities, he participated in several European (as UBISEC) and national competitive research projects related with those research lines. Moreover, one important component has been the participation in technology transfer projects helping companies as NOKIA, Semiconductors R&D S.A and Telefónica to bring some products to the market. Daniel is co-author of more than 50 international publications (20 contributions to Journals indexed by the JCR, 6 book chapters and several conferences). He cooperated with several other relevant research groups over the world and participated in a research stay in the TU Berlin and the Fraunhofer Institute that was funded by a competitive grant given by the Spanish Ministry of Education. IEEE Activities: Daniel has been actively serving as TCP and reviewer of many IEEE conferences as IEEE ICCE, IEEE ICCE Berlin, IEEE Mobile Cloud, IEEE CloudNet, IEEE WMNC, IEEE ICCVE, IEEE ICMMP and IEEE GHTCE. His major involvement has taken place in ICCE. Beyond reviewing articles and organizing poster tracks in ICCE, he has been also participating as part of the Executive Committee (EXCOM) since 2012 and holds the Online Media Presentation Chair since 2013. His contribution to the ICCE beyond helping to its organization has been changing the way the ICCE conference is presented to the audience through internet with a modern look and organization as well as better social integration. Moreover, his is an International Advisor in ICCE-Berlin. He is also an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics since 2011. He also reviews for IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video. Statement: Consumer electronics represents one of the most challenging and exciting areas for research and industrial development. The consumer electronics society successfully deals with this rapidly changing environment by providing timely dissemination of results through its conferences, journals and magazine. However, we can improve the way this information is conveyed to the audience relying on information technologies. I will strive to further improve the services offered to the members increasing the value of technical activities, conferences, and publications. To my understanding, we need to bring closer the information to the members and to capture the attention of the industry and academia. To achieve this mission, I will work to: Improve chapters visibility ensuring to capture the attention of potential industrial and academic participants. Unify conference advertisement and promotion in social networks and on the internet relying on modern websites and community managers Strengthen clustering opportunities for international industrial, research and standardization initiatives providing adequate forums as workshops, meetings and inter-chapter activities Popularize the CE society and its services within students of related degrees, master and doctoral programs If I am elected, I give my best efforts and enthusiasm to achieve this mission that I believe will improve the quality, attract more volunteers participating in CE society activities and projects, and will increase the visibility and the impact of the society.
STEPHEN D. DUKES (S 77-AM 79-M 89-SM 91-F 02) is a recognized and committed contributor to the global technology and engineering communities. He s held long-term and conscientious positions in engineering and management at the executive level, in technology segments including telecom network design, cable architecture, Silicon Valley R&D, game platform design, and enterprise network design. His career portfolio includes working with companies including GTE, CableLabs, Telecommunications Inc., MediaOne, 3DO and Boeing Computer Services. He s also served as a board member on eight public and private boards, along with numerous technical advisory boards. Major accomplishments include technical and management of the DOCSIS specifications for high-speed data over cable development, with over 140M cable modems deployed to the standard; video on demand network design; network games; and cable network architecture contributing to US$85B in network infrastructure deployed. Dukes holds a B.S. in Mathematics, University of Washington, including additional studies at Columbia University and UCLA, and is an IEEE Fellow. IEEE Accomplishments and Activities: Consumer Electronics Society (Division IV): President (2010-2012);Vice President of Conferences (2013-2014);First Vice President (2009);Administrative Committee (2005-2011);IEEE Consumer Electronics Fellow Committee (2009);IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Senior Editor (2013) Broadcast Technology Society (Division IV): Administrative Committee (2005-2011); IEEE Transactions on Broadcast Technology, Associate Editor (2005-2008) IEEE Technical Activities Board: TAB Awards and Recognition Committee (2011-2012) IEEE-SA Standard Association: IEEE-SA Standards Association Board (2013-14); Audit Committee (2013); Industry Connections Committee (2014); New Standards Committee (2013-14) IEEE Fellow Committee: Fellow Committee (2010-2013); Fellow Committee-Alternate (2013) Member and Geographic Activities: Member Benefits Portfolio Advisory Committee (2013) IEEE Initiatives: IoT Steering Committee (2012-2014); Cloud Computing Committee (2012-2014); Smart Grid Committee (2010-2014) IEEE Awards Committees: Past Chair of Masaru Ibuka Award Committee (2009); Chair of Masaru Ibuka Award Committee (2007-2008); Member of Masaru Ibuka Award Committee (2005-2006); Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award Committee (2012-2014) Statement: IEEE is the most successful technical organization in the world. It is with a sense of duty to the profession that I desire to serve as a board member of IEEE. As a member of the IEEE CE Board of Governors, I will endeavor to further the developments of IEEE CE Society, to position the organization and undertake the challenges in the rapidly changing global community that we serve. I am motivated by, experienced in, and committed to helping numerous companies to be successful with technology and have a track record to prove my passion for helping many technologies become successful companies. I view as a great honor the opportunity to proactively and resiliently lead IEEE and its technologies, conferences, publications, and standards. I appreciate your support and look forward to serving the large and growing community of IEEE CE members. BOB FRANKSTON (S 73-M 77-SM 03-F 11) has been working with computers since he first learned to program 1963. His Consumer Electronics background goes back to his childhood with a father who manufactured consumer electronics products. He has been using software to create products and services since he was in high school. Bob attended MIT; he used the opportunity to broaden his education beyond computing to include cognitive psychology, business, clinical decision making and more. He also worked to make computing more available to students. This theme of giving people access to the power of technology rather than just giving narrow solutions has been the hallmark of his career. He was fortunate to discover computing as it happened and to have had the opportunity share his passion and play a role in creating today s PC industry. Technical and Professional Experience: Bob s professional career started in 1966 on Wall St at White-Weld where he helped to create one of the first, if not the first online financial services. He has been online ever since. At MIT (BS Math, BS CS 1970, Masters and Engineers in CS and EE in 1974) he worked on the Multics project and did his thesis on providing services on an information utility. He received the William L Steward Jr award for co-founding an organization that gave students access to computing for their own projects. In 1979, with his friend Dan Bricklin, Bob wrote VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet. Later at Lotus Development he created Lotus Express. At Microsoft he worked to shift the role of the Internet in our lives by giving people control over their own connectivity, AKA home networking. Bob is a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and the Computer History Museum. More: http://rmf.vc/bio
IEEE Accomplishments: Bob has been a member of the IEEE since 1973 and is a Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer. He writes the Bits Versus Electrons in the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine where he brings his software perspective to an industry whose roots lie in creating value using hardware. He has been involved with the CE Society from when he first spoke at the first ISCE in 1997 has been keynote speaker at a number of CE Society conferences as well as a lecturer. He has worked on the Technical Program committee of a number of CE Society conferences, helped as an international advisor, and supported CE conferences in general. He is a founder of the Boston Chapter of the CE Society. Statement: The CE Society has a special role in the IEEE as it transitions from a society focused on technology to one in which the technology is a resource and users (AKA consumers) are increasingly able to craft their own solutions and create their own value. Navigating this change requires an understanding of the interplay of technology, business, economics and people (not just consumers). Today s Internet is one face of this change but as an example of a way to use available resource and to the extent it is not a provided service. To accomplish this the society and, for that matter, the organization as a whole, has a challenge in getting ahead of this change rather than looking inward. The CE Society is the face of this change as the technology becomes a tool rather than staying hidden within products. It should provide the context for the IEEE as a whole. NAHUM D. GERSHON (M 88-SM 93) has been a member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Board of Governors (AdCom) in 2010-2013 and is a Senior Principal Scientist at the MITRE Corporation. He focuses on social media, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and real-time information delivery & interaction in mobile, wearable as well as traditional devices including how they could improve both organizational environments and our personal lives (including healthcare he represents the Consumer Electronics Society on the IEEE s Life Science Initiative). Nahum has chaired and organized many international and national conferences and meetings including chairing the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society s Game Innovation Conference (IGIC 2013), NATO RTO Symposia on Battlespace Visualization and the Role of Humans in Automated and Robotic Systems. He co-founded the IEEE Information Visualization Symposium, was the Chair of the Task Force on Human Centered Information Systems, and was Member of the Technical Activities Operations Committee (TAOC) of the IEEE Computer Society. He is the Consumer Electronics Society s representative on the Management Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2014, and is an International Advisor for the IEEE Conference on Consumer Electronics Berlin 2014. Nahum is the Co-Chair of the IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media Conference (IEEE GEM) 2014 of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. Statement: Nahum plans to work hard to find new ways to increase the membership of the Consumer Electronics Society and to strengthen the existing community of the Society through local chapters and inter-chapter activities, state-of-the-art and effective conferences, blogs and social media. He also plans to work to bolster the ties between IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and other professional societies & communities. Nahum will continue to develop new ways and strategies for empowering the traditional aspects of consumer electronics and for broadening the impact and appeal of its new aspects to make this era become the golden age of consumer technology. This will emphasize traditional consumer technologies as well as new mobile and wearable devices, networks, information delivery (any information, anywhere, anytime), social computing, human-device interaction, the cloud, and the Internet of Things. RALPH H. JUSTUS (S 74-M 75-SM 05) has an extensive background in the consumer electronics industry managing evaluation laboratories, researching product development and new technologies, and managing technical standards development initiatives and programs. He currently applies these skills examining applications for U.S. patents in wireless consumer electronics, telecommunications and broadcast technologies. His former positions include: VP, Technology Programs, US Telecom Association; VP, EIA Standards & Technology, Electronic Components Association; VP, Technology & Standards, Consumer Electronics Association, Director, Engineering, Regulatory and International Affairs, National Association of Broadcasters; Staff Engineer with the TV, AM & FM Branches, Federal Communications Commission.
He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee and the American National Standards Institute, and participated in international committees IEC, ITU-R and CISPR, and the Advisory Board of the Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center. He holds a Bachelor, Electrical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. IEEE Activities: COMMITTEES/BOARDS: Technical Activities Board, 2003-05, 1987-91. SOCIETIES: AdCom Member, Consumer Electronics Society, 1998-05 (Past President); AdCom Member, Broadcast Technology Society, 1986-91 (Past President); Member, SCC-28, 1983-91; ASC C63, Member and Chair SC5, 1991-97; Member, IEEE-USA CCIP, 2005. CONFERENCES: Member, International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Technical Program Committee, 1998-05; Chairman, Fall Broadcast Symposium (BT Society), 1986; Vice Chairman, Fall Broadcast Symposium, 1985; Treasurer, Fall Broadcast Symposium, 1984; Secretary, Fall Broadcast Symposium, 1983. Statement: I wish to apply my many years experience and background in all phases of consumer electronics to assist the Society to further its stature and support of engineers around the globe by enhancing the Society s and the Institute s support of education, employment, technology and networking opportunities and I look forward to supporting our members key interests as an active member of the Board. SUNG-JEA KO (S 86-AM 88-M 91-SM 97-F 12) received the Ph.D. degree in 1988 and the M.S. degree in 1986, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from State University of New York at Buffalo, and the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering at Korea University in 1980. In 1992, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at Korea University where he is currently a Professor. From 1988 to 1992, he was an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan- Dearborn. He has published over 171 international journal articles and 210 international conference proceedings. He also holds over 60 patents registered on video signal processing, computer vision, and multimedia applications. He is the 1999 Recipient of the LG Research Award given to the Outstanding Information Technology and Communication Researcher. He received the Hae-Dong best paper award from the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (IEEK) (1997), the best paper award from the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (1996), the research excellence award from Korea University (2004), and the technical achievement award from the IEEE Consumer Electronics (CE) Society (2012). He received a 15-year service award from the TPC of ICCE in 2014. He has served as the General Chairman of ITC-CSCC 2012 and the General Chairman of IEICE 2013. He is a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics since 2012. He is a Past President of the IEEK and the Vice-President of the IEEE CE Society, International Affairs. IEEE Activities: 2013-present, Vice-President, International Affairs, CE Society 2012-present, IEEE Fellow 2014, International Coordinator, GCCE, CE Society 2014, International Advisory committee, ISCE 2012-present, Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, CE Society 2012, Technical Achievement Award, ISCE 2012, CE Society 1997-present, TPC member of ICCE, CE Society (15 years Service Award) 2007-2013, Korean Representative, CE Society Published 47 journal papers in IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics and 61 papers in ICCE NON-IEEE ACTIVITIES: 2000, Fellow, IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology); Chartered Engineer, IET 2013, President, IEEK (Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea) 2008~2010, President of Signal Processing Society of IEEK Statement: Over last 17 years, Prof. Sung-Jea Ko has been active in the IEEE CE Society. Prof. Sung-Jea Ko has the following goals as a member of the BoG: 1. Continue to develop a variety of activities for building good relations between the CE Chapters 2. Support new countries to start their own CE chapters 3. Assist with sessions and keynote speakers for IEEE CE Society conferences such as ICCE, ICCE-Berlin, ICCE-Taiwan, ISCE, and GCCE 4. Ensure a high quality of standard in all of the Society s scientific publications 5. Encourage the mutual relations between the IEEE CE Society and the IEEK (Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea)
SUDEENDRA KOUSHIK (M 10-SM 13) is Director of Innovation with 21 years of CE Industry experience, having worked at Philips, NXP, in India, Singapore and The Netherlands. Sudeendra has a Bachelor s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, MBA in Marketing, Post-graduation in Strategy management, a certified Independent Director to be on Board of Directors, is pursuing Ph.D. in Innovation. Bangalore. Sudeendra is Current Chair, past Secretary, founder-member of IEEE CE Chapter, Bangalore & Singapore, along with Stefan Mozar & colleagues, is Vice-Chair and past Chair of professional activities at IEEE Sudeendra has a video processing patent & 12 more patents pending and recipient of couple of awards, served on Program & Technical committees of IEEE events, presented paper in IEEE TALE, published papers in Xplore & other journals, delivered key notes at various IEEE events, Massachusetts Institute of technology s Emerging Technology conference and his article on Digital convergence was published as editor s choice by Frost and Sullivan. He has designed and delivered unique workshops on Innovation including a full course curriculum for engineering and management graduates. Statement: If elected to the Board of Governors, I will use my life-long learning and 21 years of professional experience to enable our society to play a crucial role in the bigger goal of IEEE and in making our BoG one of the best. My education, life experience & being a certified Independent Director will help me understand and fulfill the responsibilities of being on BoG and I will bring my professionalism in governance, strategic planning and execution. My living and working experience around the globe, experience in forging partnerships will help create innovative services to our global community, with localization as needed. As the founder-member of CE chapter at Singapore and Bangalore, I have established my own network and as a proof our teamwork, received the best chapter award by Bangalore section in 2012. I have worked successfully with many cultures across the world which will come in very handy as an effective team member of BoG. JOSEPH V. LILLIE (S 72-M 74-SM 87) received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1974) and the M.S. in Telecommunications (1997) from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He has 41 years experience in telecommunications engineering and management, and was employed by BellSouth Telecommunications 1973-2002. During these years, Joe held positions of Design Engineer, Planner, Support Manager, Engineering Manager and Planning Manager. When Joe retired in 2002 he was on the Louisiana State Staff providing engineering and construction support. In 2003 Joe joined NorthStar Communications as Director of Corporate Quality. In September 2005 Joe returned to BellSouth working on Hurricane Katrina restoration. Joe continues to provide engineering support to AT&T on a part time basis and also performs internal audits to the ISO9000, TL9000 and M-1003 standards. During his professional career Joe has attended numerous training sessions on telephony, management, leadership, contract administration, and quality management. Joe has been married to Debbie for 42 years. They have two children, both Electrical Engineering graduates of ULL, and five grandchildren. IEEE ACTIVITIES: OFFICES: IEEE Board of Directors, 2008-09, 2005-06, 2000-01. IEEE Executive Committee, 2008, 2005-06. Member and Geographic Activities, Vice President, 2008-09. IEEE Treasurer, 2005-06. COMMITTEES/BOARDS: Member and Geographic Activities Board (MGAB), Chair, 2008-09, Past Chair 2010. Regional Activities Board (RAB): Board Member, 2003-04, 2000-01; Treasurer, 2003-04; Operating Committee, 2003-04; Finance Committee, 2003-04; Director, 2000-01. IEEE- USA Board (USAB): Secretary/Treasurer, 2002; Board of Directors, 1998-2002; Vice President Professional Activities, 1998-99. IEEE Finance Committee: Chair, 2005-06; Member, 2002-12. Investment Committee, 2005-06, 2011-12. Insurance Committee, 2005-07, 2011-12. Compensation Committee, 2005-06. Employee Benefits Committee, 2005-06. National Engineers Week Committee, Chair, 2003-04. IEEE-USA Operating Committee, 2001-02, 1998-99. Presidential Blue Ribbon Committee on Board and Governance, 2000-01. Infrastructure Oversight Committee, 2007-08, 2000-01. New Initiatives Committee 2010-11. Initiative Review AdHoc Committee, 2001. Individual Benefits and Services Committee, Chair 2012-13, Member 2000-07, 2011-13. IEEE-USA Professional Activities Conference Committee (PACE): Chair, 1998; Vice-Chair, 1996; Member, 1994-98; Divisional Activities Committee, 1996-97; PACE, Council Chair, 1998-99. USAB PACE, Council Vice- Chair, 1996-97. PACE, Regional Activities Committee: Chair, 1996-97; Vice-Chair, 1993-95; Member, 1992-97. IEEE Foundation: Board of Directors, 2008-13; Treasurer, 2009-12; Director, 2008-13; Finance Committee, 2006-13 Corresponding Member, 2005-07; Grants Committee 2013: Life Members Committee 2010-11, 2013; IEEE Nominations and Appointments Committee 2012-14; MGA Nominations and Appointments Committee Chair 2013. REGION: Region 5: Executive Committee, 1988-2005; Past Director, 2002-03; Director, 2000-01; Quality Coordinator, 1996-99; E-Mail, Coordinator, 1990-96; PACE,
Chair, 1992-95; East Area Chair, 1988-91; Audit Committee, 1987. SOCIETY: Consumer Electronics Society Treasurer, 2013-14; Secretary 2014. SECTION: Lafayette Section: Membership Committee, Chair, 1995-97; Executive Committee, 1985-96, 1975-81; Chair, 1979; Vice Chair, 1978; Treasurer, 1976-77. AWARDS: IEEE-USA Citation of Honor 2003; Third Millennium Medal, 2000; Region 5 Outstanding Member, 1996; USAB Regional Professional Activities Award, 1996. Statement: I have been involved in IEEE as an active volunteer since joining as a student member in 1972. This involvement and commitment to the profession has allowed me to serve in several leadership positions including six years on the IEEE Board of Directors. I was also nominated twice by the IEEE board for the position of IEEE President-Elect. I have served as the CE Society Treasure for the past two years and as the Secretary for this year. I would like to utilize the skills and experience from my work in the telecommunications industry and service in IEEE leadership positions to serve the members of our Society. The Consumer Electronics Society has great potential to be an influential voice in the development and utilization of consumer electronics and I would like the opportunity to work with the society membership to develop and deploy processes to achieve this potential. I have a very good understanding of the IEEE structure and processes which can be used as a tremendous asset to our society as we grow the membership. In all of my past service to the profession I have always worked hard to improve the benefits of membership and member engagement opportunities and I commit to you that I will continue this approach in my future IEEE involvement. I request your support and vote in this election. Feel free to email me with questions or concerns on j.lillie@ieee.org. SCOTT LINFOOT (S 98-M 03-SM 09) Born in the UK, I attended The University of Reading where I received my BEng (Engineering Bachelors) in Electronic Engineering. Following on, I remained at The University of Reading to read my Ph.D., again, in Electronic Engineering which I successfully defended in 2003. I received my first Academic post at The University of Reading where I remained until 2005. In 2006, I joined the Engineering School at De Montfort University where I received promotion to Principle Lecturer the highest non-professorial position in a British University. In 2008, I formed my own company, MediaTag, where I eventually held the position of CEO. In 2013, I started my own consultancy company where I offer advice on solutions architecture, primarily in the Big Data Space. My professional background and expertise is very broad, starting with Digital Television and spectrum optimisation then moving to Digital Television and full supply chain representation and eventually, media production asset management and analytics. I have been an active member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society for over 16 years. I started as a Technical Program Committee member for the International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) and in 2004, was Technical Chair for the ISCE held in the UK. I then joined the TPC for the International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) Las Vegas and have been track chair on many occasions. More recently, I have joined the TPC of the GCCE and ICCE Berlin as an active participant at all conferences. From 2004-2007, I was the UK and Republic of Ireland CE Chapter Co-Founder and Vice President and then Chapter Chair from 2007 2010. I am still on the chapter committee. In 2007, I was elected to the CE Society Administrative Committee (Now Board of Governors (BoG)) where I held the role of Society Secretary and Chair of Governance and ran a project to update society documents starting with the Operations Manual and then society Constitution. From 2010-2011, I held the position of Treasurer of the CE BoG where I was responsible for preparation, negotiation and management of the society budget. I am an active, vocal participant of the BoG with a drive to improve member benefits throughout the whole of the IEEE. Statement: We are members of one of the smaller societies of the IEEE but I strongly feel that this is misleading. Consumer Electronics covers virtually all aspects of engineering which means that we should be one of the largest societies. My main observation is that IEEE members cannot easily see the value proposition in being a CE member while volunteers know what the society can offer. It is my intention over the next three years to make sure that there are a number of tangible benefits that can be bought to the CE Member. I am currently driving to get more professional courses run through the society so that members can get accreditation for other professional bodies (such as Scrum, TOGAF, Oracle, Microsoft, etc) through subsidised professional training. I am also keen to promote more social networking events. We try to promote these at conferences and there is always positive feedback. I feel that this should continue as engineering should not be just work, work, work.
Finally, I want to work with the membership to find out where we feel that technologies will lead us in the future. This has already started with my work with the Future Directions Committee which I am already a member. I have a lot of work to do over the next three years and I hope that my continued involvement with the society BoG will enable me to continue with these projects. TAKAKO NONAKA (M 06) has been a full-time lecture of Department of Materials and Human Environmental Sciences at Shonan Institute of Technology since April 2011. She is working as a researcher and a lecturer for 10 years. She has received her B.E., M.E., and D.E. Degrees from the Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1998, 2000 and 2004, respectively. She researched on modeling the human sensory evaluation of textiles and 2D designs as a visiting researcher at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic, from April to September 2004. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow of the High-Technology Research Center at Ryukoku University, Japan, from October 2004 to March 2006, and the Research Center for Information Communication Systems at Ryukoku University from May 2006 to March 2011. Her researches were related to modeling human visual characteristics and designing suitable user interfaces for small information devices based on human characteristics and system constructions. She is now engaged on researches and developments of sport gears and welfare devices based on technologies and knowledge about ergonomics, material engineering, media informatics, and human computer/machine interaction. She has published 11 transaction papers and 78 reviewed proceeding papers of IEEE, IEEJ, and so on. Dr. Takako Nonaka worked hard as the Technical Program Chair and treasurer of the IEEE 13th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE2009). She also worked as the International Advisor and HCI/UI Track Chair of IEEE 15th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE2011), and International Advisor and a member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference of Consumer Electronics in Berlin (ICCE-Berlin) since 2011 to now. She organized the 1st IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2012) as a conference chair, and kept working as one of the conference chairs of the 2nd conference, GCCE 2013. These new annual conferences are held in Japan in conjunction with CEATEC, one of the biggest consumer electronics shows in the world, and she is an Executive Committee Chair of GCCE 2014. She is working hard to call for papers and organize the ICCE 2015 as a Technical Program Co-chair, and support all conferences sponsored by CE society as Award Chair and WIE Chair since January 2014. She is also organizing some events to make networks of women engineers and researchers as a planning member of IEEE Japan Council Women in Engineering (IEEE JC WIE) since February 2014. IEEE Accomplishments: She has published a paper in the IEEE CE Transaction and 29 proceeding papers in the CE society sponsored conference proceedings. She received the following Paper Awards from CE Society and CE conference: ISCE 2006 People s Choice Best Paper Award (20th June) for the following paper: M. Matsuda, T. Nonaka, T. Hase. User Interface to Input Three-Dimensional Information with User s Palm Young Scientist Award for the IEEE 14th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2010) from IEEE Consumer Electronics Kansai Chapter. IEEE ISCE 2011 Outstanding Paper Commendations. She received the following service awards from CE Society: IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics Outstanding Service Award (June 2011). IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Early Career Award (January 2012). IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics Outstanding Service Award (2012 and 2013). YU YUAN (M 04-SM 10) is a veteran researcher and practitioner in the areas of Consumer Electronics, Vehicular Technology, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Internet of Things. Currently he is serving as the President & CEO of Cate Global, a multinational think tank focusing on bringing world-class expertise to clients and projects in China. Prior to this he had been leading the standards activities in IBM Research - China and was also a key contributor to IBM IoT Technology Center. Dr. Yu Yuan is experienced in the patent process and invention development. He has filed numerous patents and received many IBM Invention Achievement awards and IBM High Value Patent awards. Dr. Yu Yuan has published extensively in referred conferences and journals, and he has served on the program/organizing
committees of many major conferences (e.g. ICCE, ISCE, VTC, JRC, IV, ITSC, ICVES, FISTS, SOLI, ICEBE, VNC, ITST, IEVC, ICCVE, and VPPC). An enthusiastic participant in professional communities, he is currently serving as the Director of China Conferences of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, the Chair of Vehicular Technology Committee in IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, an IEEE-SA Standards Board Member, the Chair of Technical Committee on Software Infrastructure in IEEE ITS Society, the Publicity Chair of Land Transportation Division of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. Dr. Yu Yuan is a senior member of IEEE and a senior member of ACM. He is also a member of Sigma Xi, AAAS, SAE, ITE, and ASME. Dr. Yu Yuan has been engaged in extending IEEE CE Society's influence in China during the past years. He co-founded IEEE CE Society's first chapter in mainland China in 2008, and a Shenzhen chapter in 2012. He was a key contributor in the initiation of IEEE CE Society's two conferences in China: the ICCE-China in parallel with the China Electronics Fair every April, and the IEEE Global High Tech Congress on Electronics (GHTCE) in parallel with the China High Tech Fair every November. He also helped IEEE CE Society establish strategic collaborations with several important organizations in China. He is currently working on expanding IEEE CE Society's presence in Shanghai and Beijing. Statement: Being with IEEE CE Society for ten years, I am excited about IEEE CE Society's recent successes in conferences and publications. Considering the growing importance of consumer electronics in human life, I believe we are facing another significant growth in membership and influence. I have been working on and will continue to be committed to: - Developing membership and activities in China; - Facilitating the cooperation with sister communities and organizations; - Improving the awareness of IEEE CE Society's conferences and journals in growth markets and developing countries; - Increasing the communication between IEEE CE Society and China's CE industry. It will be my great honor and pleasure to be of service to IEEE CE Society members. Thanks a lot for your kind consideration. LARRY ZHANG (S 96-AM 96-M 05-SM 06) has worked in the semiconductor electronics industry for over 17 years. His experience includes research, design, product development, product definition and launch, product testing, quality and reliability, silicon device and chip characterization. Some of the products he has worked on include 2G GSM/3G WCDMA/4G LTE System-on-Chip (SoC) RF transceivers and baseband modems, ADSL CODECs, DRAM and FLASH Memories, high performance analog devices, high speed and high precision data converters, RFID, 802.15.4 ZigBee transceivers for low power wireless and sensors applications, GPS and Bluetooth transceivers, embedded processors and applications. He currently works for NVIDIA on wireless 2G/3G/4G LTE SoC RF modem test development in Dallas, Texas. Before joining NVIDIA he has worked for Texas Instruments, for more than 14 years until 2010. He has published more than 30 papers and filed more than 20 United States patents. Dr. Zhang has a Ph.D. in Materials Sciences from University of Minnesota, Twin cities in the US, and MS and BS in Physics from Lanzhou University in China. He has been active in many IEEE activities: Editor in Chief, IEEE RFID Virtual Journal, 2012-present; Editorial Advisory Member, IEEE Spectrum Chinese Edition, 2012-present; IEEE Consumer Electronics Society: past president 2009-2012, president 2009, board member: 2008-2012, Award chair 2008, VP China Strategy 2013-present; IEEE Dallas Section: past chair 2010, chair 2009, vice chair 2008, award chair 2007; ICEE: 2010 honorary chair, 2011 general Chair, 2012 co-general chair, ICEEE honorary chair 2010; IEEE R5 Green Tech Conference 2010 Technical chair; MTT Chapter chair 2008, program chair 2009-2011; ICCE-berlin 2012-2013 Advisor board; Keynote Speaker: IEEE GHTCE 2012, 2013, ICEE-China 2013, ICEE 2010, 2011, CECNET 2013; IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Dallas Chapter-treasurer 2013-present; Technical paper reviewer: ICCE, ISCE, ITC, Trans of CE, Trans. of Instrumentation and Measurement, and many other journals and conferences; IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award committee: 2009-2011 Statement: I have been active for IEEE and CE society for many years and I truly believe that Consumer Electronics industry is a key economic and technology enabler. I want to continuously work in this industry and participate in the science and technology advancement by facilitating the exchange of ideas and publications via CE Society involvement. Previous volunteer experience with CE society and other IEEE organizations give me a lot knowledge and confidence in helping the society to move in positive directions with good activities.