Committee

Organizing Committee

General Chair: George Schmelzer, Hawaiian Telcom (Retired), Hawai’i, USA

Program Co-Chair: Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA

Program Co-Chair: Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies (Retired), USA

Local Arrangement Chair: Steve Minikami, IEEE Hawai’i Section

Member: Rob Fish, Princeton University, USA

Member: Joel Myers, DOMILA Limited, UK

Program Manager: Patrick Russoniello, IEEE, USA

Program Committee

Francis Alueta, Hawaiian Telcom, Hawai’i, USA

Celia Desmond, World Class Communications, Canada

Elizabeth Fife, University of Southern California, USA

Russell Hsing, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Heather Hudson, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

Narendra Mangra, Globenet, LLC, USA

Loukas Paraschis, IEEE Communications Society, USA

R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Jason Thune, Hawaiian Telcom, Hawai’i, USA

Tao Zhang, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Georges Zissis, Toulouse 3 University, France

John Verboncoeur, Michigan State University, USA

Stephen Weinstein, NEC Labs (Retired), USA

Steering Committee

Chair: Rob Fish, Princeton University, USA

Member: Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA

Member: Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies (Retired), USA

Program Manager: Patrick Russoniello, IEEE, USA

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Smart Lighting fits perfectly with the IEEE mission for Advancing Technology for Humanity because artificial light generation is an inherent need of human beings and society. This project seeks to understand the interactions between the components of a complex SL system including the end-user behavior and evaluating the impacts on energy, environment and resources.
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The Telepresence small project aims to create a technical community to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration and coordination to advance research, standardization, and development of engineering and technology to advance the development of telepresence and to facilitate its integration in products and services improving work productivity, enabling remote work with high conditions of human supervision, emphasizing human-oriented added value and increasing quality of life.
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This small project consolidates various distributed LEO SatS activities and provides a focus on education and awareness. The intended impact of this small project is to:

1. Attract high-quality university and college students to IEEE through the collaboration with young and seasoned professionals.

2. Attract talented high-school students to provide them with the activities that they would not have otherwise.

3. Increase cooperation in LEO SatS between professionals in academia, industry, military, and government.

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