PROGRESS
PROmotinG DiveRsity in Signal ProcESSing: PROGRESS
PROmotinG DiveRsity in Signal ProcESSing: PROGRESS
Program
University of Texas at Austin, USA
IEEE Signal Processing Society President
Panelists
IEEE Signal Processing Society VP Membership
IEEE Signal Processing Society Women in Signal Processing Committee Chair
China Focused
India Focused
IEEE Signal Processing Society Women in Signal Processing Committee Chair
Associate Professor,
C.K.P. College of Engg. and Tech.
Surat, Gujarat
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Description
Dr. Kovacevic will share her personal story and thoughts on how her thinking transformed on the subject over the years starting as a little “math geek”, through high-school and university years, followed by PhD at Columbia University and her career since. She will share how the position of Department Head of ECE at Carnegie Mellon helped evolve her thinking and what she is doing as the Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Jelena Kovačević received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. She then joined Bell Labs, followed by Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, where she was currently the Hamerschlag University Professor and Head of the Department of ECE, and a Professor of BME. She is currently the William R. Berkley Professor and Dean of the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. She received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award, Dowd Fellowship at CMU, Belgrade October Prize, and the E.I. Jury Award at Columbia University. She has co-authored a number of award-winning papers and is a coauthor of the textbooks Wavelets and Subband Coding and Foundations of Signal Processing. Dr. Kovačević is the Fellow of the IEEE and was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. She was a keynote speaker at a number of meetings and has been involved in organizing numerous conferences. Her research interests include applying data science to a number of domains such as biology, medicine and smart infrastructure; she is an authority on multiresolution techniques, such as wavelets and frames.
Panelists
Description
For some, the path to a career in academia is straight and narrow. They have clearly defined goals and objectives that guide them from undergraduate students to Ph.D. students and finally to a faculty position. For others, like me, the path to a faculty position involves many turns, since the final objectives may be somewhat blurry. In this talk, I will discuss how a career in academia is possible, even when you may be unsure of your overall goals. In particular, I will discuss how weighing different career options (e.g. industry vs academia, Master’s vs Ph.D., etc.) can be helpful to you as you navigate a career in academia. Along the way, I will discuss my engineering experiences and corresponding research efforts.
Donald Williamson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University (IU), where he is also a member of the Data Science and Cognitive Science programs. He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from The Ohio State University, a M.S. in electrical engineering from Drexel University and his B.E.E. from the University of Delaware. Prior to earning his Ph.D., he was a Member of the Engineering Staff at Lockheed Martin. His research interests are at the intersections of speech, human computer interaction, machine learning, and signal processing. He is the recipient of a Toyota Research Institute award, an IU Faculty Research Support Program award, and two NSF awards, including an NSF CRII and NSF CAREER award.
Panelists
Editor-in-chief: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Past President, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia, Canada
Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs and Programs, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Emerita Professor, Arizona State University
Speakers
Panelists
IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain
Panelists
University of Virginia, USA
Panelists
China-focused Breakout Room
India-focused Breakout Room
ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
http://advance.uncc.edu
Description
This workshop is designed to begin a conversation about the biases we hold but are not consciously aware of and how this may impact how we interact, review and process information about others. The content encourages:
- developing an understanding of inherent bias;
- developing an understanding of microaggressions;
- enhance our understanding of our own and others actions;
- an awareness of how this impacts self and others
Dr. Yvette Huet is the Director of the UNC Charlotte ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office and a Professor of Kinesiology. Her research interests include women and faculty of color in the academy; mentoring; the role of estrogen in immune function and liver disease; the effects of neonatal exposure to environmental estrogens on adult disease; and the roles of nitric oxide in early pregnancy. Dr. Huet earned her B.S. in Human Biology: Microbiology from the University of Kansas; her Ph.D. (with Honors) in physiology from the University of Kansas Medical Center (the first Latina to do so); and had a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Monsanto Company in Missouri. Her honors include a National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities. She has served in many other leadership roles at UNC Charlotte, including as Coordinator of faculty development, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and Interim Chair, Kinesiology.
Description
On February 18th, 2021, the Perseverance rover touched down safely on the surface of Mars. Those final “7 minutes of terror” were preceded with years of hard work from the diverse team that formed the Mars 2020 Entry, Descent, and Landing team. This talk gives a glimpse into the personal life journey of Perseverance landing mission commentator, Dr. Swati Mohan. Dr. Mohan reflects on the life lessons that have helped her get to where she is today: 1) knowing yourself, 2) creating a support system, and 3) actively doing your best. These three tenets are described using stories from her past to highlight the importance in shaping her path, to JPL and to the Mars 2020 Entry, Descent, and Landing team.
Dr. Swati Mohan joined NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory first in 2004, after completing her B.S from Cornell University in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. After working as a systems engineer on Cassini during Saturn Orbit Insertion and Huygens Probe release, she returned to graduate school in 2005 to MIT. Dr. Mohan received her M.S. and Ph.D in Aeronautics/Astronautics from the MIT Space Systems Laboratory. Since her return to JPL in 2010, Dr. Mohan has worked on multiple missions such as GRAIL and OCO-3. Swati also co-founded and manages the Small Satellite Dynamics Testbed. For the past 8 years, she has been the Lead Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Systems Engineer for Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, focusing on Cruise and EDL. For the last year, her role was the Mars 2020 Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Operations Lead. Dr. Mohan was the mission commentator for the landing of the Perseverance rover on February 18, 2021. She is currently the supervisor for the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Systems Engineering group at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Panelists
IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors
Panelists
IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors
National Science Foundation, USA