The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the longer term route of IEEE and is dedicated to making sure IEEE stays a robust and vibrant group—serving the wants of its members and the engineering and expertise neighborhood worldwide whereas fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing expertise for the advantage of humanity.
This text options IEEE Board of Directors members Bala S. Prasanna, Stefano Bregni, Charles M. Jackson, and H. Alan Mantooth.
IEEE Senior Member Bala S. Prasanna
Director, Area 1: Northeastern U.S.
Lubin Studios
Prasanna brings greater than 35 years of educational and company expertise in telecommunications, pc science, and digital transformation to his present roles. Within the educational realm, he has served as assistant professor of pc science on the State University of New York in Oswego and taught C and C++ programming at Morgan State University, in Baltimore.
His company profession has included influential roles within the telecom trade, the place he specialised within the design, growth, and deployment of community administration techniques. All through his profession, he has been devoted to mentorship, efficient communication, and management growth.
Prasanna holds a bachelor’s diploma in physics and mathematics in addition to a grasp’s diploma in arithmetic from Bangalore College, in India. He additionally earned a grasp’s diploma in pc science from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
He has held prime management positions in IEEE for greater than 25 years, together with serving on the IEEE-USA board of administrators as secretary/treasurer. He additionally served on the IEEE Region 1 government committee and board of governors and was the regional coordinator for Student Professional Awareness programs. He’s actively concerned with IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the respect society of IEEE.
Prasanna is captivated with IEEE’s humanitarian initiatives, particularly the IEEE MOVE program, which provides communities with power and communications capabilities in areas affected by widespread outages on account of natural disasters.
He obtained an IEEE Third Millennium Award, which acknowledged his excellent contributions to the IEEE and his subject.
Prasanna considers his efforts to mentor and encourage next-generation leaders to be his best accomplishment. He stays dedicated to skilled progress, neighborhood service, advocacy of impactful packages, and technological development.
IEEE Senior Member Stefano Bregni
Director, Division III
Stefano Bregni
Since 1999, Bregni has been a professor of telecommunications networks inside the electronics, information, and bioengineering department at Politecnico di Milano, in Italy, the place he additionally earned his grasp of science diploma in electronics engineering.
His analysis exercise has been primarily targeted on community synchronization and Internet visitors characterization. Community synchronization offers with the distribution of time and frequency over a community of clocks by utilizing communication hyperlinks amongst them. The objective is to make community components function synchronously. It has a direct influence on telecommunications operators and determines the standard of providers together with transmission techniques and networks for switching, computer systems, and cell providers.
He contributed to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)/International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) requirements on community synchronization. He wrote Synchronization of Digital Telecommunications Networks. As an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, he offered on synchronization ideas in academia and trade.
Bregni innovated clock characterization and measurement methodologies, redefined customary measures, and superior technical ideas all through academia and trade worldwide inside the IEEE Communications Society. He additionally utilized measures initially conceived for frequency stability characterization to the evaluation of Web visitors in communications networks to allow extra real looking system design.
He has been an energetic IEEE volunteer for greater than 25 years and has held a variety of prime management positions in IEEE ComSoc conferences, together with serving as technical program co-chair of flagship conferences IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC 2016) and IEEE Globecom 2023. He’s a co-founder of the IEEE ComSoc Student Competition, which is the principle ComSoc program awarding younger abilities. He has been editor in chief of the society’s Global Communications Newsletter since 2007.
Bregni has been acknowledged for his volunteerism with the 2019 IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service Award and the 2014 IEEE ComSoc Hal Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings and Conferences. He’s dedicated to advancing expertise and mentoring next-generation expertise within the subject.
IEEE Life Fellow Charles M. Jackson
Director, Division IV
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Jackson’s work has helped advance many area purposes, together with communications, radar, and Earth remark. Earlier than he retired in Might 2021, he targeted on specialised microwave and millimeter-wave applied sciences. He labored at a number of communication firms, making digital receivers and driving developments within the subject of phased array radar. He additionally labored within the aerospace trade, aiding with space-based packages, supporting technical growth, and testing the energy and safety of bodily and information-based belongings towards organizational threats.
Jackson is an energetic member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT-S) societies and has been printed within the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control journal. He’s a previous chair of the IEEE Conferences Committee, and he held quite a few positions in Region 6 (Western U.S.) and its MTT-S chapter. He holds 5 patents and has printed greater than 30 articles, together with items featured within the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Whereas recovering from most cancers, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind devices, significantly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets. He now makes use of 3D printing to make the devices and discusses his work in his Microwaves and Woodwinds presentation as a member of the MTT-S Speakers Bureau. His work has helped advance the sector’s understanding of acoustical instrument design.
IEEE Fellow H. Alan Mantooth
Director, Division II
College of Arkansas
All through his profession, Mantooth has been devoted to enabling higher efficiencies that cut back greenhouse gas emissions inside the energy-generation and transportation industries.
He obtained bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas, in addition to a doctoral diploma from Georgia Tech.
Mantooth presently leads the UA Power Group, a multidisciplinary group of researchers engaged on next-generation electric vehicles, renewable energy techniques, grid infrastructure, and cybersecurity. The UA Energy Group obtained an R&D Journal R&D 100 Award for its 250-kilowatt all-silicon carbide motor drive for hybrid aircraft.
Amongst his tasks on the energy group, Mantooth oversees services for semiconductor manufacturing, power electronics packaging, and medium voltage testing. He focuses on energy electronics for grid modernization, automobile electrification, and excessive surroundings electronics in a spread of purposes. His areas of focus embrace semiconductor system design and modeling, analog and mixed-signal IC design, CAD strategies, energy electronics design and packaging, and cybersecurity. The gadgets, circuits, and techniques assist enhance power grid efficiency and defend the grid from cyberattacks. Additionally they have industrial purposes for electrified plane, passenger autos, and heavy tools.
A longtime member and previous president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, Mantooth obtained the society’s Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Award, each in 2019.
Mantooth, named a Tech Titan of 2021 by Arkansas Money & Politics magazine, is an inductee of the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineering.
