Chapters & Membership

How does the program work?

• CMD has contacted potential speakers from the following set of IAS volunteers. There were no objections from the volunteers about receiving invitations from chapters. You may find the name, affiliation, and email address of each speaker by opening the respective link below. Some of the volunteers have already provided their presentation topic and are listed under their respective department. This list will be updated continuously as more topics are confirmed by the speakers. There are also the potential speakers and the former presenters listed.
  • IAS Society Officers
    • Wei-Jen Lee, IAS President
    • David Eng, IAS President Elect
    • Georges Zissis, IAS Past President
    • Tomy Sebastian, IAS Past President
  • IAS Executive Office
    • Patrick McCarren, IAS Executive Director
  • IAS Ex-Officio & Sister Society Liaisons
    • David B. Durocher
  • IAS Technical Departments
  • IAS Technical Committees Sponsored Presentations
    • Daniel Roberts, PI Department, Electrical Safety Committee (2)
    • David B. Durocher, PI Department, Metals Industry Committee
    • Thomas J. Dionise, PI Department, Metals Industry Committee (2)
    • Sam Morello, PI Department, Metals Industry Committee
  • IAS Operating Department Chairs
    • Akshay Rathore, Awards Department Chair
  • IAS Standing Committee Chairs
  • IAS Members-At-Large
  • IAS Distinguished and Prominent Lecturers 2019-2020
    • Anthony C. Davies, IAS PL, UK
    • Pablo Simon Narvaez, IAS DL, USA
    • Jose Alfonso Antonino-Daviu, IAS DL, Spain
    • Pia Torres, IAS DL, Argentina
  • IAS Distinguished Lecturers, Nominated for 2021
    • Jianxin Shen
    • David Torrey
    • Yongsug Suh
    • Vinod Khadkikar
  • IAS Chapters and Membership Department (CMD)
    • Richard Cselko
    • Peter Magyar
    • Lesley Arakkal
  • IAS Young Professionals & Alumni of CMD - Technical Presentations
    • Yanni Zhong
    • Richard Cselko (3)
    • Rajesh M. Pindoriya
    • Adil Usman
    • Kalpana Chauhan
    • Rajeev Kumar Chauhan
    • Radwa Abdalaal
    • Nishad Mendis (2)
    • You Lin
    • Johanna Castellanos
    • Yao Yingbei
    • Anandhu S. Kumar (2)
    • Pía Torres
    IAS Young Professionals & Alumni of CMD - Non-Technical Presentations
    • Lesley Arakkal
    • Sumit Chhabria (2)
    • Megha Tak
    • You Lin
    • Liu Xiaoyi
    • Johanna Castellanos
    • Pooja Singh (2)
    • Akshay Krishnan
    • Yanni Zhong
    • Yao Yingbei
    • Anandhu S. Kumar 
    • Pía Torres (6)
    • Anish M.S.
  • Guest Speakers
    • Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Labs, USA
    • Costas Stasopoulos, Energy Authority of Cyprus, Cyprus
    • Jaison Mathew, Govt. Engineering College Thrissur, Kerala, India
  • Virtual Meeting Sessions
    • Offered with keynote speakers as well as IAS YP and alumni of CMD speakers on following topics
      • IEEE Networking
        • Keynote and YP presentations, Dec 05
  • Technical Presentation Sessions
    • Offered with keynote speakers as well as IAS YP and alumni of CMD speakers on following topics
      • Electrical Lighting
        • Saturday Virtual Meeting Series on Electrical Lighting, Oct 10, 17 and 24
      • Electrical Machines
        • Tuesday Virtual Meeting Series on Electrical Machines, Sep 08 and Sep 15
      • Engineering & Methods and Tools
        • Virtual Meeting Series, Oct 29 and Nov 19
      • Power and Energy 
        • Monday Virtual Meeting Series on Power and Energy, Sep 07, 14, 21, 28 and Oct 05
• • Virtual Panel Discussion Sessions 
    • Offered with IAS YP and alumni of CMD speakers on following topics. First Discussion Session Series will be held at RIT on Sep 05, 12 and 19
      • Professional career experiences
      • Covid, social and humanitarian experiences
      • IEEE career, leadership and WIE experiences
• Chapter contacts the required speaker individually via email with subject "Invitation for Chapters Virtual Meeting" in copy to the Program Coordinators Lesley Arakkal, IAS CMD Chair & Peter Magyar, IAS Director of Chapter Development. 
• Having received the invitation the invitee may refuse or accept it. There is no compulsion to accept any invitation.
• If the invitee accepts the invitation, the speaker and the chapter make an agreement on topics, date and time as well as on the online platform (WebEx, Google Meet, etc) for the virtual event. The topic can be either a technical presentation or general information about the department / committee program, conferences or participation in the committee activity.
• The participation should be open for anybody and free of charge. CMD or Chapter cannot reimburse the speakers for giving a presentation. 
• The Chapter informs CMD about the event. Details about the event will be published on the CMD webpage. The Chapter may report the event also in the CMD Newsletter with participation opportunity in the Most Happening IAS Chapter Contest too.
• As part of the IEEE MGA vTools, chapter chairs can request a WebEx meeting link to be created for their event. Pease see link:  https://site.ieee.org/vtools/webex-meeting-registration/. The chairs will receive the link within 3 working days.

Privacy and Copyright Instructions

• The events of the Virtual Chapters Meeting Program should be held in compliance with the data protection and personal privacy right regulations.
• Collecting unnecessary personal data e.g. IEEE membership number in the meeting registration form should be avoided.
• Prior to the recording of any meeting, the hosts of the meeting should advise all participants that the meeting will be recorded.
  • Recording and especially live streaming of the events might violate personal privacy.  
  • Recording the presentation is a violation of the copyright of the author.
• If presentations will be recorded as part of the meeting, written permission from the presenters shall be obtained prior to the presentation by using the Release Form. 

Meeting Overview 

- 2020 Chapter Activity First Half Year

- 2020 Chapter Activity Second Half Year