The IEEE Board of Administrators has nominated Life Fellow Thomas Coughlin and Senior Members Kathleen Kramer and Maike Luiken as candidates for IEEE president-elect. IEEE Life Fellow Kazuhiro Kosuge is looking for to be a petition candidate.
Different members who wish to change into a petition candidate nonetheless could achieve this by submitting their intention to elections@ieee.org by 8 April.
The winner of this yr’s election will function IEEE president in 2024.
Life Fellow Thomas Coughlin
Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators
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Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates, in San Jose, Calif., which supplies market and expertise evaluation in addition to information storage, reminiscence expertise, and enterprise consulting companies. He has greater than 40 years of expertise within the information storage trade and has been a advisor for greater than 20 years. He has been granted six patents.
Earlier than beginning his personal firm, Coughlin held senior management positions in Ampex, Micropolis, and SyQuest.
He’s the creator of Digital Storage in Shopper Electronics: The Important Information, which is in its second version. He’s a daily contributor on digital storage for the Forbes weblog and different information retailers.
In 2019 he was IEEE-USA president in addition to IEEE Area 6 director. He additionally was chair of the IEEE New Initiatives and Public Visibility committees. He was vp of operations and planning for the IEEE Shopper Expertise Society and served as normal chair of the 2011 Sections Congress in San Francisco.
He’s an energetic member of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Part, which he chaired, and has been concerned with a number of societies, requirements teams, and the IEEE Future Instructions committee.
As a distinguished lecturer for the Shopper Expertise Society and IEEE Scholar Actions, he has spoken on digital storage in client electronics, digital storage and reminiscence for synthetic intelligence, and the way college students could make IEEE their “skilled residence.”
Coughlin is a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) honor society.
He has obtained a number of recognitions together with the 2020 IEEE Member and Geographic Actions Management Award.
Coughlin is energetic in a number of different skilled organizations together with the Society of Movement Image and Tv Engineers and the Storage Networking Trade Affiliation.
Senior Member Kathleen Kramer
Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators
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Kramer is a professor {of electrical} engineering on the College of San Diego, the place she served as chair of the EE division and director of engineering from 2004 to 2013. As director she supplied educational management for all the college’s engineering packages.
Her areas of curiosity embody multisensor information fusion, clever techniques, and cybersecurity in aerospace techniques. She has authored or co-authored greater than 100 publications.
Kramer has labored for a number of firms together with Bell Communications Analysis, Hewlett-Packard, and Viasat.
She served because the 2017–2018 director of IEEE Area 6 and was the 2019–2021 IEEE secretary. In that place, she chaired the IEEE Governance Committee and helped make main modifications together with centralizing ethics conduct reporting, strengthened processes to deal with ethics and member conduct, and improved the method used to periodically evaluate every of the person committees and main boards of the IEEE.
She has held a number of management positions within the IEEE San Diego Part, together with chair, secretary, and treasurer. Her first place with the part was advisor to the IEEE College of San Diego Scholar Department.
Kramer is an energetic chief inside the IEEE Aerospace and Digital Methods Society. She at the moment heads its technical operations panel on cybersecurity. From 2016 to 2018 she served as vp of training.
She is a distinguished lecturer for the society and has given talks on sign processing, multisensor information fusion, and neural techniques.
Kramer serves as an IEEE commissioner inside ABET, the worldwide accrediting group for tutorial packages in utilized science, computing, engineering, and expertise. She has contributed to a number of advances for graduate packages, cybersecurity, mechatronics, and robotics.
Life Fellow Kazuhiro Kosuge
Searching for petition candidacy
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Kosuge is a professor of robotic techniques on the College of Hong Kong’s electrical and digital engineering division. He has been conducting robotics analysis for greater than 35 years, has revealed greater than 390 technical papers, and has been granted greater than 70 patents.
He started his engineering profession as a analysis workers member within the manufacturing engineering division of Japanese automotive producer Denso. After two years, he joined the Tokyo Institute of Expertise’s division of management engineering as a analysis affiliate. In 1989 and 1990, he was a visiting analysis scientist at MIT. After he returned to Japan, he started his educational profession at Nagoya College as an affiliate professor.
In 1995 Kosuge left Nagoya and joined Tohoku College, in Sendai, Japan, as a school member within the machine intelligence and system engineering division. He’s at the moment director of the college’s Transformative AI and Robotics Worldwide Analysis Middle.
An IEEE-HKN member, he has held a number of IEEE management positions together with 2020 vp of Technical Actions, 2015–2016 Division X director, and 2010–2011 president of the Robotics and Automation Society.
He has served in a number of advisory roles for Japan, together with science advisor to the Ministry of Schooling, Tradition, Sports activities, Science, and Expertise’s Analysis Promotion Bureau from 2010 to 2014. He was a senior program officer of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2007 to 2010. In 2005 he was appointed as a Fellow of the Japan Science and Expertise Company’s Middle for Analysis and Growth Technique.
Amongst his honors and awards are the purple-ribbon Medal of Honor in 2018 from the emperor of Japan.
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Senior Member Maike Luiken
Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators
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Luiken’s profession in academia spans 30 years, and she or he has greater than 20 years of expertise in trade. She is co-owner of Carbovate Growth, in Sarnia, Ont., Canada, and is managing director of its R&D division. She is also an adjunct analysis professor at Western College in London, additionally in Ontario.
Her areas of curiosity embody energy and vitality, data and communications expertise, how progress in a single area permits advances in different disciplines and sectors, and the way the deployment of applied sciences contributes—or doesn’t contribute—to sustainable growth.
In 2001 she joined the Nationwide Capital Institute of Telecommunications in Ottawa as vp of analysis alliances. There she was liable for a large space check community and its upgrades. Whereas on the firm, she based two analysis alliance networks that spanned throughout trade, enterprise, authorities, and academia within the areas of wi-fi and photonics.
She joined Lambton School, in Sarnia, in 2005 and served as dean of its expertise faculty in addition to of utilized analysis and innovation. She led the enlargement of utilized analysis carried out on the faculty and helped Lambton change into one of many prime three analysis faculties in Canada.
In 2013 she based the Bluewater Expertise Entry Centre (now the Lambton Manufacturing Innovation Centre). It supplies utilized analysis companies to trade whereas providing college students and school alternatives to develop options for trade issues.
Luiken, an IEEE-HKN member, was final yr’s vp of IEEE Member and Geographic Actions. She was president of IEEE Canada in 2018 and 2019, when she additionally served as Area 7 director.
She has served on quite a few IEEE boards and committees together with the IEEE Board of Administrators, the Canadian Basis, Member and Geographic Actions, and the Web Initiative.