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Austin COMSOC/SP Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting January 26, 2013 San Marcos, TX. 2013 Austin Chapter Elected Leadership Team. Fawzi Behmann (Chapter Chairman) Hanan Potash (Vice Chair) Frances Freeman (AT&T Liaison) Kwok Wu (Treasurer) Syed Shah (Secretary)
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AustinCOMSOC/SPChapterIEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning MeetingJanuary 26, 2013 San Marcos, TX
2013 Austin Chapter Elected Leadership Team • Fawzi Behmann (Chapter Chairman) • Hanan Potash (Vice Chair) • Frances Freeman (AT&T Liaison) • Kwok Wu (Treasurer) • Syed Shah (Secretary) • Mahdy Saedy (Technical Program, Mem. Dev.) • Richard Penshorn (Web Master, Soc Media) • Behrang Nosrat-Makouei (University Outreach) • Saurabh Sureka (Member at-large) • Tim Raper (Member at-large)
2012 Record of Activities 12 Technical Meetings 9 Administrative/strategy/planning meetings 2 Non-Technical 2 Professional 6 Outreach Activities Plus Home Networking Summit DLT – Dr. Mischa Dohler, Barcelona Spain Other Advancement from 2011 • Migrate website from Infuseweb to IEEE (Feb) • Migrate website from IEEE to IEEE Word Press (May) • Enhancement of booth presentation: Collaterals, Chapter banner & Table cloth New website & Social Media Election Attendee feedback survey, draw prizes, guest appreciation
Chapter Monthly Technical Meetings Q1 • Feb. 16 @ AT&T “Making of a Multicore Processor”, Dr. Syed Shah, Director of Systems, Lattice • Mar. 15 @ AT&T “The Future of Smart Secured Networking and Smart Converged Gateways for Smart Cloud Services”, Dr. Kwok Wu, Head of Embedded Software and Systems Solutions, Freescale Q2 • Apr. 19 @ AT&T “Defined Radios Accelerate Wireless Research” Mr. James Kimery, Director of Marketing, National Instruments • May 17 @ AT&T “The Stampede Supercomputer: The Evolution of High Performance Computing “ Dr. Dan Stanzione, Deputy Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center • May 24 @ AT&T “Heterogeneous Processors, Hybrid Systems and Big Data“ Dr. Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory Q3 • July 19 @ AT&T “Objective Video Quality Assessment for Multi Bit Rate Adaptive Streaming” Dr. Prabhu Hosur, AT&T Labs • Aug. 16 @ AT&T “Fan Control and Temperature Sensing“ Dr. Ali Akbar Merrikh, AMD • Sept. 20 @ AT&T “Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)-based architectural framework for Water Management Application” Dr. Syed Shah, Director of Systems, Lattice Semiconductor
Chapter MonthlyTechnical Meetings Q4 • Oct. 18 @ AT&T “Cyber Security and the new Threat Landscape with BYOD“ Mr. PaulMeding, Sr. Security Analyst, AT&T • Nov. 13 @ UT “10x Beyond LTE-A – Business Case, Technologies, Challenges for Emerging 5G Networks” Dr. Misca Dohler, Director CTTC • Nov 13 @ Freescale “10x Beyond LTE-A – Business Case, Technologies, Challenges for Emerging 5G Networks” Dr. Misch Dohler, Director CTTC • Dec 20 @ AT&T “Low Complexity Scalable Video Encoding” Mr. Rashid Jillani, Encoding Engineer, AT&T 9 Administrative/Strategy/Planning Meetings • Feb 16 • Mar 15 • Apr 19 • May 17 • Jul 19 • Aug 16 • Sep 20 • Oct 8 • Oct 27 2 Non Technical Functions • Jan 26 Address UT IEEE Students • Feb 1 Address UT IEEE COMSOC Students 2 Professional Functions • Aug 7 NI Texas Day • Nov 12 Austin Home Networking Summit
Austin Chapter Updates • Feb. 6, Outreach program: Career Fair “Coast-To-Coast” • Feb 23-24, Support CTS/eWeek • Jun 11-15, Support Globecom2014 @ ICC12 • August 6-9 “NI Week – Texas Day“ • NOV 12 Home Networking Summit & Distinguished Guest Lecturer • Nov 13 Distinguished Lecture – Dr. Mischa Dohler addressing UT and COMSOC/SP Chapter
Austin Career FairFeb. 6, 2012 Holiday Inn Austin Midtown
NIWEEK CTS
Austin Home Networking Summit Date: Nov.12, 2012, Location: 7700 Parmer Theme: IOT for Home Networking Solutions Objectives: The objectives of the workshop is to provide a forum of learning, dialog and networking regarding home networking marketing and technological trends, evolved architecture solutions and services and identify and demonstrate what is currently available. • AM • Keynote Speaker – Dr. Mischa Dolher • Home Networking Landscape, Technology and Standards • Home Networking Technology & Architecture • Available Products • PM • Panel on Home Networking Solutions • Home Networking Enabling Software • Development Kits and Reference solutions • Tips on Maintaining secure home networks
Sponsors/Supporters Austin Chapter San Antonio Chapter
17 Companies/Institutions/Associations ATT CTTC Cisco Digi Int’l Freescale HBMG Hitachi IBM COMSOC IHS/IMS NI Oracle Servergy Sigma Designs ThinkEco UT Vision Invent
2013 Jan 15 Chapter Admin/Strategy/Planning Meeting Jan 17 Dr. Brian Kelly, UTSA "RF Multicarrier Signaling and Antennas Systems for Low SNR Broadband Underwater Communications” Jan 20-23 RWW, Austin RWW 2013 Plenary Session – January 22: Jan-Erik Mueller RWW 2013 General Chair Karl Varian RWW 2013 TPC Chair Mahdu Gupta MTT Fawzi Behmann ComSoc Robert Nevets APS Jung-Chih Chiao EMBS James Truchard NI CEO, Plenary Speaker Dietmar Kissinger EuMW 2013 Takao Inoue RWW 2014 370 in attendance