IEEE Industry Engagement Committee

Dr. Robert S. Fish is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is also President of the IEEE Standards Association, a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), and President of NETovations, LLC, a consulting company focused on the creation of communications and networking technology innovation. From 2007 to 2010, he was Chief Product Officer and Senior VP at Mformation, Inc. a company specializing in carrier software for mobile device management. From 1997 to 2007, Rob was Vice President and Managing Director of Panasonic US R&D laboratories. Prior to this, he was Executive Director, Multimedia Communications Research at Bellcore/Telcordia after starting his career at Bell Laboratories. Besides his many publications, Dr. Fish has been awarded 17 patents. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Dr. Fish is Steering Committee chair and Co-founder of ComSoc’s Consumer Communications and Networking Conference. He is the former chair of ComSoc’s GLOBECOM and ICC Management and Strategy Committee. Dr. Fish was the recipient of ComSoc’s MMTC Distinguished Service Award. Rob has also been Chair of IEEE SA’s Global Committee, and was a founding member of the IEEE SA Corporate Advisory Group. He co-edited a series in IEEE Communications Magazine on IEEE standards in communications and networking. Dr. Fish and his organizations have initiated and managed standards development activities in IEEE, ISO/IEC JTC1, 3GPP, OMA, IETF, ATSC, CableLabs, OSGi, etc. In 2016, Dr. Fish was awarded the Standards Medallion of the IEEE Standards Association.

Don is a Distinguished Engineer and Senior Staff Manager with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. He earned his Ph.D. from Caltech and is an IEEE fellow. He is a chief technologist, a researcher in power electronic systems, and an authority in space power management.

He is a frequent keynote speaker at top-tier national and international conferences on power electronics and energy systems. His accomplishments include 2 national standards, 4 industry firsts, 5 editorial positions, 7 professional educational and under/graduate courses, 23 patents and trade secrets, recipient of more than 30 awards, served on >70 industry and professional leadership positions, authored >100 research and technology articles and presentations, and >300 technology insertions and product developments with >1,800 space flight designs delivered without a single on-orbit failure. His Adiabatic Point-of-Load program has attracted US$15M customer funding in 5 years and his power product line values at greater than US$200M. His double forward technology was licensed to a major telecommunications company. His technology for in-space electric propulsion is being licensed to industry.

Mohamed Amin is an IEEE member & volunteer serving currently as IEEE R8 Careers subcommittee chair.

Amin is a professional telecommunication engineer working for Nokia as Senior Account manager. Previously he was working for Alcatel-Lucent as Services Business Development Manager on EMEA region with focus on IP routing services.

He served in several leading positions in IEEE Region 8 & IEEE Egypt section, starting by IEEE volunteer in Egyptian Engineering Day in 2006 till he was appointed by IEEE GOLD Egypt board as EED Chairman to lead one of the biggest IEEE engineering exhibition & conferences in its 10th round in 2011. Amin is also previous elected board member of IEEE Egypt Young Professionals Affinity Group.

In 2016, Amin received IEEE MGA Achievement Award due to his contribution among his IEEE R8 Action for Industry team for planning and implementing the IEEE Action for Industry Initiative, which has successfully increased member engagement and strengthened the relationship between IEEE and industry in Region 8 (EMEA).

In 2017, Amin has been awarded the highest award for sales professional in Nokia named as "President's Club Award" due to his professional leadership and business achievements.

In 2020, Amin was selected by Nokia as one of the 15 Global Ambassadors for Nokia.

Dr. Jessica Bian is an internationally recognized executive leader with decades of success proven through novel transformation strategies that have improved electrical power production, championed regulatory bodies' complex energy challenges, and repositioned agencies in the public sector through integration of renewable energy and deployment of new technologies. In addition, she has established and strengthened relations with stakeholders, partners, boards, and steering committees.

Dr. Bian is also a visionary technical leader and architect, has spearheaded electric industry's reliability metrics and grid risk assessment. Currently she is the Vice President of Grid Services at Grid-X Partners. Before that, she was with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington, DC. Previously, she was the Director of Performance Analysis at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Under her leadership, a total of 18 industry-wide reliability indicators were established to determine grid reliability, adequacy, and associated risks. She is widely recognized as a pioneer and trusted world leader in the field. Before joining NERC, Dr. Bian was with PJM, ERCOT and Westinghouse Electric. She earned her Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the Taiyuan University of Technology, China; Master of Science from the Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing, China; and Ph.D. from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Dr. Bian is the President-Elect (2020-2021) of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES). She is an IEEE Senior Member, and was the PES Secretary from 2016 to 2019.

Jenifer is a Mechatronics Engineer, who graduated from San Buenaventura University in Bogota Colombia. She also has an M.B.A. in International Enterprises from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. She currently works for Parker Hannifin Corp. Fortune 250 company, where she is the Territory Manager of the Caribbean, in charge of the Business Development programs in the area.

Jenifer is an IEEE Senior member, and has been part of IEEE as member and volunteer for 16 years. IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee Chair 2021, IEEE Region 9 Executive Committee Member - Secretary. Previously, IEEE Puerto Rico and Caribbean (PR&C) Section Chair (2018 – 2019), WIE Committee Member at Large (2019-2020), and Puerto Rico and Caribbean (PR&C) Section Technical Activities Chair (2020). She has been recognized with the IEEE MGA Achievement Award 2020, “For sustained and outstanding achievements in promoting Students, YP, and WIE membership development in Latin America and the Caribbean”, and the Oscar C. Fernández, IEEE Region 9 recognition to the outstanding volunteer in Latin America.

David Durocher (SBM '77 M '97 SM '99) received a BSEE at Oregon State University. He served as Global Mining, Metals, and Minerals Industry Manager during his 41 year career with Eaton serving in various product engineering, sales, and marketing roles. He has authored papers presented at conferences around the world, published in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, World Cement, Engineering & Mining Journal, Plant Engineering, and EC&M Magazine.

Roger Fujii has been an IEEE volunteer for 35 years. He is President of Fujii Systems, a executive management consulting firm to major corporations for large systems development. As Vice President/General Manager (retired) at Northrop Grumman, led a $1.086B engineering division responsible for achieving financial objectives for over 100 contracts, managing a 2,200 employee workforce, and delivering (R&D, engineering, manufacturing) specialized satellite and aircraft communication systems (F22/F35).

He developed the industry standard on the methodology for certifying critical software systems for all US nuclear weapon system software (Minutemen, Peacekeeper, Tomahawk Cruise Missile), radiation therapy devices and NASA manned space missions.

He was a guest professor at Xiamen University, China. Lectured at UCLA and Sacramento State University.

He published papers/books (chapter author), developed international standards, managed conferences, and served in IEEE/Society leadership and special committees. Served as 2016 Computer Society (CS) President, CS 1st Vice President, CS Vice President of Standards Activity Board, and CS Board of Governors. Served as IEEE Division VIII Director to Board of Directors. Lead the US Delegation to ISO/IEC International Software Engineering standards. Chairs IEEE Std 1012, Standard for System, Software and Hardware Verification and Validation. Currently chairs the IEEE Financial Transparency Group analyzing financial transparency issues and concerns.

Fujii is an IEEE Fellow, Golden Core member, and graduate of UC Berkeley (BS/MS EECS) with thesis on “Optimizing Algorithm for Pattern Recognition of Handwritten Characters.” Have M.B.A. certifications from Harvard, UCLA and Darden (Virginia). Served on National Academy of Sciences National Research Council - “Oversight of Space Shuttle Flight Software.”

Dr. Rakesh Kumar is a semiconductor industry veteran with a distinguished technical industry career, is an entrepreneur, and an educator. He is the founder of two start-ups and made many technical and leadership contributions at Cadence, Unisys, and Motorola. He developed leading semiconductor technologies. As VP&GM at Cadence he built a successful Silicon Technology services business championing the integration of silicon, design and EDA in chip and system design. He enabled the Fabless industry revolution and authored "Fabless Semiconductor Implementation". He is an IEEE Life Fellow, was inducted into the Technical Activities Hall of Honor. His many IEEE contributions include Chair of the Roadmaps Committee, Co-Chair of DataPort, past President of SSCS, TA Chair for 3 Sections Congress events. He teaches Entrepreneurship at UC San Diego.

He received the Ph.D. M.S. and B.S. diplomas in EE in 1974, 1971 and 1969 respectively, and an Executive "MBA" from UCSD in 1989.

Dr. Kumar is well respected in the industry, and is well connected to industry executives as well as technical contributors. In addition he works well with and understands the needs of researchers. He will be an excellent contributor to the IEEE Industry Engagement Committee.

Timothy Lee, currently a Boeing Technical Fellow, is responsible for the development of RF and digital electronics for advanced communications networks and sensor systems, Al/ML applications and edge processing at The Boeing Company (1998- Present). He is leading the development of state- of- the- art hardware which are based on CMOS/SiGe, GaAs, lnP and GaN integrated circuits and devices. Current interests include techniques to overcome the End of Moore's Law which includes novel semiconductor device technologies, 2.5D/3D heterogeneous integration, hardware designs for 5G millimeter- wave systems and trusted microelectronics. He has 38 years of professional experience with broad technical and managerial responsibilities. As Design Manager, he was responsible for design, production, and facilities. He created a fabless Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) design center that delivered MMIC products for insertion into many commercial and government programs including the US Air Force's Wideband Global SatCom (WGS) satellites. While at MACOM (1983- 1998), he led the development of millimeter- wave MMIC commercial products. At COMSAT Laboratories (1978- 1993), he designed MMIC components, and co- developed a 0.2- micron T- gate PHEMT foundry process. Tim holds SB EE and SM EE degrees (1981) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree (2008) in Systems Architecture and Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Bruno Meyer is Business Development Manager at RTE. From 2011 until 2016, he was CEO of ARTERIA, the telecommunications subsidiary of RTE. There he launched new products, increased the revenue by 50% and doubled the profits.

He joined EDF in 1985. There he lead several departments. He has been responsible for EDF’s R&D on Transmission & Distribution (40 M USD) after being department director with a 150 strong team, covering the fields of power systems dynamics, economics, design, and technology. He has published more than 40 scientific papers including a book.

Throughout his career he has favored innovation but always being result driven. He has shown a capacity to detect and foster new activities. He has demonstrated a capacity to build partnership at national and international levels, with industry, consultants and academics. Member of the Boards of the French Society of Electrical Engineers (SEE) and of the French CIGRE National Committee. I was awarded CIGRE’s Technical Committee Award.

Dejan is a distinguished technologist and director at Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA [1998-present]. Previously, he worked in the OSF Research Institute, Cambridge, MA [1994-1998] and Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia [1983-1991]. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993); and his MSc/BSc from Belgrade University, Serbia (1983/86). Dejan was a managing director of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing testbed (2007-2011). Dejan has over 200 papers, 2 books, and 61 allowed/granted patents. Dejan is an IEEE Fellow (2010), ACM Distinguished Engineer (2008), and HKN and USENIX member. Dejan was on 8 Ph.D. thesis committees and he taught a Cloud Management course in San Jose State University. He mentored over 50 interns. Dejan was president of the IEEE Computer Society (2014) and he was an IEEE Presidential Candidate (2019). He is chair of the SCV Corporate Liaison Program (2020). Dejan served on the IEEE Board (Division Director VIII, 2017-2018), Audit Committee (2017-2019, Chair 2018), New Initiatives Committee (2017-2018), Fellows Committee (2016), Awards Board (2018), and the Industry Engagement Committee (2018-2020). Dejan was editor-in-chief of IEEE Computing Now (2008-2012) and Distributed Systems Online (2008-2009) and he has served on many editorial boards and TPCs.

Matt Scott is the CEO and co-founder of Malong Technologies, a VC-backed, award-winning computer vision company. Malong produces leading product recognition technologies for the retail industry. Established in 2014, Malong now has 150+ employees, is an Accenture portfolio company and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Malong was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and a Gartner Cool Vendor for AI in Computer Vision.

Matt started Malong’s Research group. The group actively publishes state-of-the-art research, open source, collaborates with university and commercial research organizations, sponsors conferences, has a postdoc program, and launches open datasets and competitions to help advance computer vision research in the scientific community.

Matt has 15+ years R&D experience in computer vision and machine learning. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEEE), has published 100+ international patents and 25+ academic papers, including coverfeatured articles in IEEE Computer and The Proceedings of the IEEE. In IEEE CVPR’17, Matt and his team won first place in the WebVision Challenge.

Prior to Malong, Matt was at Microsoft for 10 years, working in Microsoft Research as an R&D lead on computer vision, machine learning, and NLP. At Microsoft, he received the Gold Star Award, Engineering Excellence Award, Microsoft Research Asia Collaborator of the Year, and 18 Research to Product Technical Transfer Awards. In 2018, Matt won Fast Company’s MCP100 award. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Discovery Channel, among other outlets.

Mayumi Suzuki is working on areas of healthcare infomatics at Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, as a researcher from 2011 April. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009 March and also received a Master of Engineering degree from Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, in 2011 March. She received the IEEE Region10 Young Professionals Affinity Group Award in 2017 as a Tokyo Young Professionals Chair and IEEE Region10 Young Professionals Volunteer Award - Industry in 2018. She was the Japan Council Educational Activities Coordinator, managing events and strategy for the Japan Council Educational Activities and 9 Sections in Japan. She organized the Japan SYWL workshop twice as Japan SYWL Workshop committee leader as Tokyo YP Chair.