IEEE CRFID NEWSLETTER Issue #2, April 6, 2015 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Vasileios Lakafosis In this Issue: From the Editor... 2 Computer, ITSS, and UFFC Societies Join IEEE CRFID in 2015... 3 Conferences and Call for Papers... 4 Less than two weeks until RFID 2015... 4... 5 Meet the CFRID officers!... 6 Gregory D. Durgin... 6 Gisele Bennett... 6 Apostolos Georgiadis... 7 William Lumpkins... 7 Emily Sopensky... 8 Shahriar Mirabbasi... 8 Paul Hartmann... 9 Larry Zhang... 9 Daniel W. Engels... 10 Vasileios Lakafosis... 10 CRFID Technical Community Membership... 12 2015 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, including reprinting /republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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Computer, ITSS, and UFFC Societies Join IEEE CRFID in 2015 By Emily Sopensky, 2015 CRFID Chair With the new year, we are delighted to welcome our three newest member to the CRFID; the Computer society, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, and the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control society. CRFID now comprises 12 member societies. The representatives assigned for each society are: IEEE Computer Society o Jean-Luc Gaudiot o Chuck Walrad IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society o Wei-Bin Zhang o Liuqing Yang IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society o Donald Malocha Welcome! http://www.ieee-rfid.org/2015/02/19/crfid-member-societies/ 3
Conferences and Call for Papers Less than two weeks until RFID 2015 By Dr. Matthew Trotter, IEEE RFID 2015 Publicity Chair This year's IEEE RFID conference has tremendous content lined up. Check it out for yourself and register for the conference if you haven't already! Keynote Speaker - Dina Katabi, MIT Invited Speaker - Fred Tubb, icontrol Inc. Rectenna Spinout - Student teams build hand-crafted rectennas (rectifier + antenna) and compete to see which can spin a motor the fastest! $500 cash prize to the winner. Tutorials and Workshops - Learn more about the burgeoning world of RFID: Tutorial: Backscatter Communication Techniques for Internet of Things (3 professional development hours!) Tutorial: Near-Field Wireless Technology (3 professional development hours!) Workshop: Bluetooth Low Energy & BLE Beacons for Active RFID Applications Workshop: Energy Harvesting and Transfer Present and Future Conference Program - Download the conference program via the Guidebook app straight to your mobile device TODAY! Simply visit http://guidebook.com/getit to download Guidebook. Then, search for "IEEE RFID 2015" within Guidebook to see the upcoming program! Go ahead and register now if you haven't already. See you in beautiful San Diego, California, USA! 4
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Meet the CFRID officers! Gregory D. Durgin Dr. Durgin is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is a senior member of the IEEE and currently serves as both vice chair of educational outreach and as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Technical Committee on RFID. Gisele Bennett Dr. Bennett is a Regents Researcher, the director of the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, and a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She founded the Logistics and Maintenance Applied Research Center (LandMARC), a multi-disciplinary center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As the director of the Electro-Optical Systems laboratory, she manages 168 researchers, scientists, and students in a diverse applied research environment. Dr. Bennett s past and current activities include editorial or officer positions with the Optical Society (OSA), SPIE, and IEEE. She is a member of the US Army Science Board, a Fellow in the Optical Society (OSA) and SPIE (International Society for Optics and 6
Photonics) and a senior member of IEEE. She is one of the first ten fellows chosen for Georgia Tech s University Leadership program. Dr. Bennett has patents related to RFID and container security as well as over 90 publications in books or book chapters, refereed journals, technical reports, and workshops. Her doctorate is in Electrical Engineering and a certificate in Management of Technology from Georgia Tech. Dr. Bennett is Secretary/Treasurer IEEE CRFID. Apostolos Georgiadis Dr. Georgiadis is a Senior Researcher at the Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions den Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain. His research interests are in the field of energy harvesting and RFID-enabled sensing and additive manufacturing. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CRFID, and the 2015 Vice Chair Conferences. William Lumpkins William Lumpkins, Senior Member of IEEE is the Vice-President of Engineering at O & S Services, an Engineering Services company specializing in Consumer Product development with bringing ideas in the U.S. to fruition and bridging the manufacturing process into the Far East. William served as the IEEE Committee on RFID Chair (2013-2014) and as the IEEE Systems Man & Cybernetics Standards Chair and the IEEE Sensors Council Standards Chair. He served in the United States Navy 7
from 1987 ~ 1996. During his active duty and while serving aboard the USS Carl Vinson, William actively studied Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and received his BS from New York University, Albany, 1996. William s research interests are AI in the Home/Vehicle, IoT, Cloud Computing, Security Systems, and RF Energy Harvesting. Emily Sopensky A business consultant, Emily Sopensky specializes in strategies for technology companies. In 1995 she began working for Texas Instruments on RFID. After 20 years in Central Texas, she became the second IEEE-USA Fellow to the U.S. State Department in 2004, and relocated to Arlington, Virginia. Besides organizing IEEE s RFID interests across OUs, Ms. Sopensky has held numerous positions in societal, regional, technical and corporate IEEE activities. She is Chair, IEEE CRFID. Shahriar Mirabasi Shahriar Mirabbasi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia. His research interests include analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuit and system design for wireless and wireline date communication, sensor interface, RFID, and biomedical applications. Professor Mirabbasi is CRFID Vice Chair Publications. 8
Paul Hartmann Paul is President of RF SAW, Inc. Paul s previous positions include Founding Vice President of Engineering and CTO for Applied Digital Access in San Diego and Director of Advanced Technology for Rockwell International in Dallas. Paul is a Senior Life Member of IEEE and the founding chair of The IEEE Technical Committee on RFID (CRFID). Larry Zhang Dr. Larry Zhang has worked in the semiconductor electronics industry for over 20 years. His experience includes research, design, product development, product definition and launch, product testing, quality and reliability, silicon device and chip characterization. He currently works for NVIDIA on wireless 2G/3G/4G LTE system-on-chip (SoC) RF modem development in Dallas, Texas. Before joining NVIDIA he has worked for Texas Instruments, for 15 years. He has published more than 30 papers and filed more than 20 United States patents. Dr. Zhang has a PhD in Materials Sciences from University of Minnesota, Twin cities in the US, and MS and BS in Physics from Lanzhou University in China. 9
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, President of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society 2009, Chair, IEEE Dallas section Chair. Keynote Speakers for many IEEE Conferences on Wireless Communications and Consumer Electronics. Daniel W. Engels Matthew Trotter Vasileios Lakafosis Vasileios Lakafosis is a Software Engineer and Researcher with the Locator / ID Separation Protocol Team, in Core Software Group of Cisco Systems and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE CRFID Newsletter. Dr. Lakafosis' cross-disciplinary research interests range from novel networking protocols in the areas of core routing and wireless mobile ad hoc, mesh, and sensor networks to RF security authentication, perpetual ambient RF energy harvesting communication systems, wireless localization techniques, and distributed computing in delay tolerant and opportunistic networks. Dr. Lakafosis' PhD Thesis research work was listed among the 25 technologies in all categories featured in the November 2011 20-year anniversary issue. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2012 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MOBIHOC). 10
Vasileios is a member of IEEE, ACM, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) National Honor Society for Electrical Engineers and the Technical Chamber of Greece. 11
CRFID Technical Community Membership The CRFID technical community is open to any IEEE member -- scientists, engineers and practitioners -- who is interested in in RFID research and applications. CRFID Member Societies 12