Guiding principles
My whole platform, and all activities attempt to:
- Meet the needs of our diverse and international constituency;
- Promote the engagement of underrepresented groups such as women, students, and young professionals; and
- Enable and support sound ethical practices.
Position Statement (Summary)
IEEE has not kept pace with the changing profession. It must adjust or gradually diminish in relevance. We need to:
Increase IEEE's relevance to industry, and tie them better to academia and government, e.g.:
Increase IEEE's relevance to industry, and tie them better to academia and government, e.g.:
- Consulting services to corporate, government, e.g. cross-technology evaluation
- Practitioner reports, trend papers of timely, practical value
- Host modern events targeted to industry, culminating in Industry Congress
Innovate IEEE by introducing offerings, e.g.:
- Recruit members from 18M SW developers, talent mgmt., new member grades
- Tighter workflow connecting TAB and SA for right-timing of agile standards
- Corporate partnership with SMBs and startups in addition to enterprises
Expand global membership in Asia/Africa, strengthen Americas/Europe:
- Grow IEEE-USA into IEEE-Global-Policy, extend with IEEE-Asia, IEEE-Europe
- Collaborate with sister organizations, such as NAE, AAAI, ACM, ASM
Biography (Summary)
I am a catalyst of change, a technical leader in system software:
Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs
- –‘98-now at HP(E) Labs working on systems software
- at OSF Research Institute, Cambridge MA
- PhD at University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia
Working at the birthplace of Silicon Valley
- Regularly presents to CTO of HPE customers
- Exposed to dynamic industry, startups, VCs
Innovator
- 41 patents, 126 patent app, 2 books, >180 papers (scholar)
- Fellow of IEEE (2010), ACM Distinguished Engineer
Global reach, extensive management experience
- Managed teams in India, Brazil, Singapore, China, US
- Works with UIUC, Purdue, GaTech, ETH, Technion, etc.
- Managed OpenCirrus Cloud Computing Testbed with 16 global sites
I have the strong support of the HPE CTO and Lab VP. For more details see full bio.
Accomplishments (Summary)
(Past) Chair of Industry Engagement (2018) 2015-2017
- portfolio: Industry Advisory Board, Infrastructure Conference,
Confluence of AI & Cybersecurity, Industry Summit, etc. - formed Industry Engagement Committee
- worked closely with all VPs and management council
- working towards Industry Congress
Audit Committee Chair, 2018
- oversaw Global Spec; harmonized committee with MOUs
Computer Society President
- reduced financial deficit by 37%, new revenue sources
- introduced prestigious “Spirit of Computer Society” Award
- IEEE CS 2022 Report, Tech Trends, Computing Now,
Special Technical Communities; started 3 conferences - on Magazine/Transactions boards, 3 conferences PC chair