From the Editor ................................................................................................................................ 2
Conferences and Call for Papers ....................................................................................................... 4
Introducing Our New CRFID Adcom Members ................................................................................. 6
Zhi Ning Chen ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Magdy Bayoumi ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Rui Zhang ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Jean-Luc Gaudiot .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
In Remembrance .............................................................................................................................. 8
Official CRFID Social Media Profiles .................................................................................................. 9
Membership in the Council on RFID .................................................................................................. 9
CRFID Member Societies ................................................................................................................ 10

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Happy new year, everyone!
2015 was certainly an interesting and productive year . In mid-June the Council on RFID came into existence and since last January, six new member societies were added. Additionally,
CRFID was approved in November to sponsor the IEEE Journal on RFID; expected to be published in 2017.
Going forward in 2016 , more and more exciting things are ahead of us! The organizing committees for IEEE RFID 2016 (held in May in Orlando) and RFID-TA 2016 (held in
September in Guangzhou) are already hard at work. In January, CRFID was approved for its first official chapter, namely the “IEEE Singapore Section Council on RFID Chapter."
As much as I have enjoyed serving the position of the newsletter editor and would like to continue doing so, I need to pass on this honorary service to someone who can devote the full time it deserves. Given this chance, I would like to congratulate Prof. Shashikant Patil for accepting the position of the new Editor-in-Chief ! We are looking forward to Shashikant’s effort to make this newsletter grow further.
Vasileios Lakafosis
Information for Contributors: Announcements, feature articles, book and meetings reviews, opinions, professional activities, report abstracts, letters to the editor, and other material of interest to the CRFID community are solicited. Please submit electronic material for consideration to the Editor-in-Chief at.
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National University of Singapore Professor Chen Zhi Ning was the representative from Antennas & Propagation Society. He was chosen by the CRFID Adcom 8/27/2015 meeting to be the VP
Member Services. This position provides guidance and oversight for any member services which includes, but not limited to:
Chapter support, creation and funding; distinguished lecture program; educational activities; and cooperation with both IEEE and non-IEEE entities.
University of Louisiana Professor Magdy Bayoumi was selected as VP Technical Activities. He provides direction for the Technical
Activities of the Council, including but not limited to technical studies, standards, policies, guidance, and other products and services. The CRFID Technical Activities Committee may also sponsor technical committees.
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Rui (elezhang@nus.edu.sg) 
 received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2007.
He is now an associate professor with the ECE Department
of National
University of Singapore. His current 
 research interests include energy-efficient and energy-harvesting
 enabled wireless communications, wireless information
and power transfer, and wireless 5G techniques. He was the recipient of the 6th IEEE
ComSoc
Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award in 2011, and the
co-recipient of the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in
Wireless 
 Communications in 2015. He is now an Editor for
IEEE 
 Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE
Transactions
on Signal Processing, and IEEE Journal on
Selected
Areas in Communications. He was listed as a Thomson
Reuters Highly Cited
Researcher in 2015.
Professor Jean-Luc Gaudiot received the Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electronique et
Electrotechnique, Paris, France in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California,
Los Angeles in 1977 and 1982, respectively.
He is currently a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science Department at the University of California,
Irvine. He was Chair of the Department from 2003 to 2009.
During his tenure, the department underwent significant changes.
These include the hiring of twelve new faculty members (three senior professors) and the remarkable rise in the US News and
World Report® rankings of the Computer Engineering program from 42 to 28 (46 to 36 for the Electrical Engineering program). He is the President-Elect,
Computer Society.
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Our colleague and friend Bill Gruver passed away on Monday
February 29, 2016 in his home. The service was held on
Sunday, March 13th at 3:00 pm, at Christ Church Cathedral,
Vancouver.
Bill, our representative from the Systems, Man and
Cybernetics Society, was one of the original supporters of
RFID in IEEE.
B ill was integral to the founding of CRFID. He loved working with students and urged them to engage in
RFID-related educational disciplines. He traveled frequently to East Asia. He was part of our small group that organized the very first RFID-TA in Guangzhou. Bill provided us the structure and outline for our Distinguished
Lecturer program. More recently, he urged CRFID to connect with social media, especially Wiebo and Wechat in
China.
On recognizing Bill and his contributions, CRFID plans on contributing to the new Engineering
Science Student Award being established at SFU in Bill’s honor in lieu of flowers.
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If you haven’t already, please sign up for our Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. www.facebook.com/IEEECRFID www.twitter.com/IEEECRFID www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=4325405
Additionally, CRFID is up on Wechat (for mobile) and Sina Weibo in China!
The CRFID is open to any IEEE member -- scientist, engineer or practitioner -- who is interested in RFID research and applications. Membership in the Council’s community is available only to
IEEE members. And it is FREE!
Join the Council on RFID
For a subscription to the RFID Virtual Journal go to http://goo.gl/VuAn5R . It is free to members of
CRFID member societies.
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