IEEE Computer Society Election Opens on 3 August 2015

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Jul 20, 2015, 09:00 ET

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., July 20, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Voting for IEEE Computer Society's candidates for president-elect, first and second vice presidents, and Board of Governors will begin on Monday, 3 August 2015.

Only Computer Society members without an email address in their member record, or those who have opted out of IEEE email communications, will receive a paper ballot package. Those who receive paper ballots should return them by mail using the business reply envelope provided, or to the IEEE Technical Activities, Attn: SGA, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA.

All other members will receive a broadcast email message with voting instructions to access their Web ballot package information. Members (undergraduate students are not eligible to vote) in all regions can vote via the Web at the Computer Society's election site. For replacement ballots or to request a paper ballot, call +1-732-562-3904 or email [email protected].

The officers are elected to one-year terms and Board members to three-year terms, each beginning 1 January 2016. Candidate bio and position statements will be published in the August issue of Computer magazine, which is distributed to all members.

Jean-Luc Gaudiot and Hironori Kasahara will be on the ballot for 2016 President-Elect and 2017 President. The President oversees the Society's programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most Society program boards and committees.

Gaudiot, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, is a Fellow of IEEE and IEEE-CS Golden Core member. He also previously served as Vice President of Education Activities and Publications. Kasahara, a Professor of Computer Science at Waseda University in Tokyo, is a member of the IEEE-CS Board of Governors, has served as chair of the IEEE-CS Japan Chapter and a board member of the IEEE Tokyo Section.

Candidates for 2016 First Vice President are David Ebert and Hausi Muller. Ebert is a Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and Director of the Visual Analytics for Command Control and Interoperability Center, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence; an IEEE Fellow, and serves on the IEEE-CS Board of Governor's Executive Committee. Muller is the Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Engineering at University of Victoria, Canada, a member of IEEE-CS Board of Governors, and Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee of WF-IoT 2015, World Forum of Internet of Things.

The Second Vice President candidates are Gregory Byrd, and Nita Patel. Byrd is Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, a member of the IEEE-CS Board of Governors, and member-at-large of the Publications Board. Patel is the Systems and Software Engineering Director at L-3 Warrior Systems, serves on the IEEE-CS Board of Governors, and chairs the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference.

The 12 candidates for 2016-2018 terms on the Board of Governors are:

Hal Berghel, University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Ann DeMarle, Champlain College.
Sven Dietrich, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Fred Douglis, EMC Core Technologies Division.
Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, London.
Bruce McMillin, Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Cecilia Metra, University of Bologna, Italy.
Paul Nikolich, YAS Broadband Friends LLC.
Shmuel Shottan, Hitachi Data Systems.
Kunio Uchiyama, Hitachi, Ltd.
Andrew Wolfe, Wolfe Consulting, Santa Clara University, Turtle Beach.
Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano University.

Ballots must be returned no later than 12:00 noon EDT on Monday, 5 October 2015. Results will be announced in Computer's December issue.

About IEEE Computer Society

IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading membership organization for professionals in all aspects of modern computing - from cloud to big data, security to mobile, robotics to software defined systems, wearables to IoT. A true community for technology leaders, Computer Society provides resources to keep its members current in technology and moving forward in their professions - publications, a renowned digital library, a vast program of conferences, technical committees, and much more. The Computer Society also serves the profession at large through establishment of standards, professional qualifications and certifications, training and education programs, events on leading-edge technologies, conference publishing, and a wealth of other services and programs focused on advancing the science and art of computing. More information on IEEE Computer Society can be found at www.computer.org.

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