Austin
COMSOC/SP
Chapter
IEEE Central Texas Section
Spring Planning Meeting
Sep 8, 2012
San Marcos, TX
Austin COMSOC/SP
Leadership Team
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Fawzi Behmann (Chapter Chairman)
Hanan Potash (Vice Chair)
Kwok Wu (Treasurer)
Syed Shah (Secretary)
Mahdy Saedy (Technical Program, Mem. Dev.)
Blaine Khol (Web Master, Soc Media)
Frances Freeman (AT&T Liaison)
Saurabh Sureka (Member at-large)
Tim Raper (Member at-large)
IEEE Central Texas Section
f.behmann@ieee.org
potash@flash.net
kwok.wu@freescale.com
ijlalalishah@gmail.com
mahdy.saedy@gmail.com
blaine@blainekohl.com
ff283a@att.com
saurabh@ieee.org
traper1710@gmail.com
2013 Meetings
Date
Technical/
Admin
Topic
Speaker
L31
Jan 17
Technical
“RF Multicarrier Signaling and Antennas
Systems for Low SNR Broadband
Underwater Communications”
Dr. Brian Kelly, UT at San
Antonio
(Yes)
Feb 21
Technical
“Emerging Trends in Smart Networking”
Mr. Nikolay Guenov, Mr.
Stephen Turnbull, Dr.
Kowk Wu, Freescale
(Yes)
Mar 21
Technical
“Secure Elements: The Core of Your
Armor in the Wildlands of the Digital
Universe”
Mr. Bart Bombay and
Dr. Karen Lu, Gemalto
(Yes)
Apr 17
Technical
“From Circuits to Cancer”
Dr. Sani Nassif, IBM
Research, Austin
(Yes)
May 16
Technical
“Motion Video Processing with the ThreeDimensional Discrete Cosine
Transform (DCT)”
Dr. Raymond Westwater,
ATT
(Yes)
Jul 18
Technical
Dr. Choudur K.
Lakshminarayan, HP
Research, Austin
(Yes)
“Complex Event Processing of Bio-Signals
in Healthcare”
IEEE Central Texas Section
2013 Co-Sponsored Meetings
Date
Technical/ Topic
Admin
May 23
Technical
Aug 21
Technical
Aug 28
Technical
“Manage Your Career – Don’t Get Blinded by
Reality”
Professional
Several events (e.g. RWW, Congressional, NI
Week Texas Day)
Admin
Speaker
L31
“Do you want to be the next IEEE-USA
Congressional Fellow?”
Ms. Leslie Martinich,
founder of
Competitive Focus
(Yes)
“It’s a Brave New World Out There”
Mr. Dave Panos,
President
(Yes)
David
Smith, CEO, and
others
(Yes)
Several meetings (Jan 15, Apr 17, Jul 23, Aug 20)
Events:
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Support RWW Jan 21-23
Reach out to Texas MSTC , Feb. 2013
Support NI Week August 5-7, 2013
Support GlobalSIP 2013
Promotion of Globecom2014
IEEE Central Texas Section
Website / Social Media
http://sites.ieee.org/ct-comsp/
IEEE Central Texas Section
Website / Social Media
http://sites.ieee.org/ct-comsp/
IEEE Central Texas Section
2013 NIWEEK – Info table
IEEE Central Texas Section
Career Management
August 28, 2013
IEEE Central Texas Section
Globcom 2014 – First Digital conference that will bring
balance between technology advancement (Academia)
and Applications (Industry), providing a unique value
proposition.
HELP
Globecome14 is seeking out volunteers for helping,
leadership and experience in different areas. Below is
a list of available functional areas:
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Infrastructure IT (WiFi/Cellular) support
Creative Service support for backdrops, banners, posters, digital display, etc.
Collection & integration of content: Hotel, City, program, schedule, videos, photos, etc.
Update to: Website, Mobile app, social media, community – content Update
Promotion: Media, email, direct mail, printed material, social media
Registration support.
Coordination & Support with keynote speakers, session chairs, speakers and exhibits
Room Monitors & Tracking – scanning attendees to sessions
Schedule tracking (session/speakers/location)
Change notification and announcements
Public Relations: Communications message platform, press releases, invitation to Gov.
Officials, Invitation to media, briefing interviews
12. Greetings/Ushering, first aid, etc.
If you are interested to help, please send an email to f.behmann@ieee.org
identifying functional area of interest before Sept. 19 (PREPARTION METTING).
IEEE Central Texas Section
Thanks
IEEE Central Texas Section