IEEE Future Networks World Forum
13–15 November 2023 // Baltimore, MD, USA
Imagining the Network of the Future

Student Leadership Summit

Date and Time

Monday, 13 November 2023

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

 

Registrations

ADVANCE One-Day Pass ONLY Registration (*)

Advance Registration

Amount

Student IEEE/ComSoc Society Member

$25.00

Student Non-IEEE/Society Member

$125.00

 

ADVANCE Three-Day Pass Registration (*)

Advance Registration

Amount

Student IEEE/ComSoc Society Member

$75.00

Student Non-IEEE/Society Member

$450.00

 

(*The registration includes lunch, break, and reception)

Register Here

(Become an IEEE ComSoc student member today and get the additional discount; click here).

 

Invited Speakers and Panelists in the Student Leadership Summit

Invited Speakers - Day 1, Monday 13 Novemeber SESSION 1 14:00 - 15:30 // Eastern Standard Time (EST) - Student Leadership Tech Track

  • Sherman Shen, President, ComSoc, Opening Remarks
  • Semih Aslan, Texas State University, Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Electrical Engineering Leveraging ML Techniques and WSN
  • John Baras, UMD, Exciting Careers: Future Communication Networks and Their Impact on Society, Life, Work and Economy
  • Tim Lee, Boeing, R&D Opportunities Enabled by US CHIPS Act Funded Programs
  • Bill Tonti, FDC (Future Direction), The Ingredients of a US Patent
  • Kit August, IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Board, IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Board (HTB) & the Special Interest Group for Humanitarian Technologies (SIGHT) Taenzer Program: Accessible Technology for All

Invited Speakers - Day 1, Monday 13 November SESSION 2 16:00 - 17:30 // Eastern Standard Time (EST) - Student Leadership Tech Track

  • Bhanu Sood, NASA, Beyond the Cutting Edge: Unleashing Innovation and Opportunity at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for the Future of Space Exploration and Science
  • Christine Girtain, Toms River High School North and South in Toms River, Creating a K-Industry STEM Pipeline
  • James Starks, Texas State University, NSF SBIR/STTR Seed Fund - Student Perspective
  • Anupam Joshi, UMBC, Exploring Cybersecurity for AI, and AI for CyberSecurity
  • Caitlin Broccoli, JHU, Telling Your Story & Other Skills for Success
  • Drew Lowery, Lead Scientist and Chief Technology Officer of Plasma Igniter, LLC, IEEE as Your Professional Home

Panelists - Day 2, Tuesday 14 Novemeber 17:30 - 18:30 // Eastern Standard Time (EST) - Young Professionals & Student Mentorship Forum

  • Fawzi Behmann, TelNet Management Consulting Inc.
  • Ashutosh Dutta, JHU/APL
  • Kathleen Kramer, University of San Diego
  • Emre Ayranci, muRata pSemi
  • Kafi Hassan, T-Mobile
  • Rakesh Kumar, IEEE DataPort Chair

6G Roadmap and Agriculture - Day 3, Wednesday 15 Novemeber 14:00 - 15:30 // Eastern Standard Time (EST) - Advanced Agriculture Ecosystem for Urban & Rural Environments

  • Fawzi Behmann (Moderator) President of TelNet Management consulting Inc. Texas, USA
  • Prof. Semih Aslan Associate Professor Program Coordinator, Electrical Engineering Director, SMART Lab Ingram School of Engineering , Texas State University, Texas
  • Narendra Mangra Principal, GlobeNet
  • Dr. Ashutosh Dutta Chief 5G Strategist JHU/APL, Chair at IEEE Future Networks Technical Community 
  • Thomas Olsen Project Manager at Phoenix Contact USA
  • Frederica Darema Senior Science and Technology Advisor at NSF

Overview

The Student Leadership Summit s sponsored by ComSoc and consists of (2) 90-minute sessions with an Invited Keynote and five presentations to be followed by a panel discussion.

Topics may include:

  • Resume development and interviewing.
    • How to make your resume stand out from 100 other comparable ones.
    • The view from the other side of the table.
    • Professional Networking - what works for advancing your career within and outside your company or university.
  • Your Career in 5 Years.
  • Giving Back to the Profession.

Registrations

ADVANCE One-Day Pass ONLY Registration (*)

Advance Registration

Amount

Student IEEE/ComSoc Society Member

$25.00

Student Non-IEEE/Society Member

$125.00

 

ADVANCE Three-Day Pass Registration (*)

Advance Registration

Amount

Student IEEE/ComSoc Society Member

$75.00

Student Non-IEEE/Society Member

$450.00

 

(*The registration includes lunch, break, and reception)

Register Here

(Become an IEEE ComSoc student member today and get the additional discount; click here).

 

Not a ComSoc student member?

Both new and current IEEE student and graduate student members can add-on a new 2024 ComSoc membership before 31 December 2023 to enjoy benefits through 31 December 2024. Visit www.comsoc.org/join for more information

Student Travel Grants Available

Apply by 10 November 2023

ComSoc offers a number of grants to students who plan on attending the ComSoc Student Leadership Tech Track at the Future Network World Forum. Each grant is up to US$500 but no more than the actual travel expenses.

Apply for a ComSoc Grant

Book Your Hotel

A discounted group rate is currently available for FNWF 23 at Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor, discount expires on 9 November 2023, at 4:00 PM EST. We highly recommend making your reservation as soon as possible, as space is limited. For more information and to access the booking link, please visit https://fnwf2023.ieee.org/hotel-travel/hotel

 

VISA letter request

If you require a Visa Letter of Invitation from the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), please complete the Visa Letter Request Form and select your conference:

https://fnwf2023.ieee.org/hotel-travel/visa-letter-request

 

Contact us

If you have any questions regarding the IEEE FNWF Students Leadership Track, contact 

SHORT BIO OF ORGANIZER, KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, AND PANELISTS

Dr. Semih Aslan, an accomplished academic and professional, currently serves as an Associate Professor and the Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator within the Ingram School of Engineering. His extensive career includes a significant role as a Senior FPGA Design Engineer in the Motorola LTE Division and a post-doctoral researcher at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Aslan worked with minority students for over ten years as a full-time instructor on the west side of Chicago. Furthermore, he holds the distinction of being the founding director of the esteemed System Modeling and Renewable Technology (SMART) Lab, an integral part of the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. Dr. Aslan's distinguished research pursuits encompass a wide spectrum of vital areas, including but not limited to renewable energy, sensor modeling, signal conditioning, embedded systems, Machine Learning, and hardware optimization.

 

Kathleen A. Kramer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society (AESS), and an active member of MTT-S and SPS, among others. She has worked as a Member of Technical Staff at several companies including ViaSat, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Communications Research. Her technical interests are in multisensor data fusion and applications of neural and fuzzy systems to navigation and data security. She is also internationally known as a leader in accreditation and has been named a Fellow of ABET. She is the 2024 IEEE President Elect, and has a record of leadership across IEEE, emphasizing especially advancing Women in Engineering, Young Professionals, and Student Activities. She received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering magna cum laude with a second major in physics from Loyola Marymount University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

 

Emre Ayranci is the Director of RFIC Design at Murata pSemi in San Diego focusing on 5G RF front end ICs for flagship smartphones with over 30 granted and pending patents, after experiences at Intel, Broadcom, Marvel, German Aerospace Center and a startup as a lead designer for 10-100Gb/s wireline and wireless transceivers. He is the Future Networks Steering & Strategy committee SSCS rep, FNWF general co-chair, IEEE YP past chair, MGA SPC training strategy lead and R6 SPC chair. He has served at several IEEE leadership positions such as SSCS YP Committee Chair, SSCS Secretary/ Governance Chair, IEEE YP Vice Chair/TAB YP rep, Benelux YP and Professional activities Chair, Denmark student rep, founder and chair of Technical University of Denmark and Sabanci University student branches. He is the author and co-author of several ISSCC and JSSC papers, a data converter book chapter, IEEE R8 SPC finalist and IEEE Denmark SPC best paper award recipient.

 

Fawzi is currently the founder and president of TelNet Management Consulting Inc. offering international professional services in the areas of technology trends; positioning and building smart networking ecosystem solutions in key markets. Prior, Fawzi held various executive and leadership positions with Tier 1 companies in the areas of communications and networking in Canada and US. He championed the development of Telecom Network Management systems, led efforts in rolling out product releases for network edge and core and marketing SoC product line and roadmap.
 
 
Fawzi is a distinguished Lecturer and keynote speaker at several national and international conferences and events. He has several publications, co-authored a book “Collaborative Internet of Things for Future Smart Connected Life and Business” published by Wiley. Fawzi is a Co-founder of “IoT in Healthcare ConsortiumÔ” of Intelligent Health Association (IHA) and is a faculty advisor with Texas State school of Engineering with Capstone Senior Design program. 
 

Fawzi is serving second term as ComSoc North America Director and ComSoc BoG member, and board, MGA-C and IOB board member. He is a voting member of IEEE Conference Committee & finance Ad Hoc committee, FNTC SC Chair elect, Co-Chair of Future Network Education working group, Co-Chair of IEEE Transdisciplinary Framework working group. Fawzi chaired several conferences, summits, and panels. Among the most recent is the General Chair of IEEE WCNC 2022. Fawzi received multiple awards for his professional leadership, including the IEEE USA professional leadership award, IEEE Communications Society NAB Exceptional Service Award, and several regional outstanding services award. Fawzi has MBA, master’s in computer science, bachelor’s in science with Honours in Mathematics with Distinction.

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