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Spring Planning MeetingJanuary 25, 2014 San Marcos, TX

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2013 Austin Chapter Elected Leadership

Team Fawzi Behmann (Chapter Chairman) Hanan Potash (Vice Chair) Kwok Wu (Treasurer) Syed Shah (Secretary) Mahdy Saedy (Technical Program, Mem. Dev.) Blaine Kohl (Webmaster, Social Media) Frances Freeman (AT&T Liaison) Historian (Avinash Naidu ) Saurabh Sureka (Member at-large) Tim Raper (Member at-large)

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18 Technical Meetings 13 Non-Technical 7 Professional 5 Administrative/strategy/planning meetings 2 Outreach Activities – ICC/GLOBECOM

2013 Theme – Advancement of Technology in Healthcare (6 sessions)

3 DS/DL – Dr. Metin Akay, Dr. Robert Heath, Dr. Yonina C. Eldar

Collaboration with different societies/externally (5 sessions)CAS/SSC/CEDA, CS, CN, IM, Linux Foundation, Power.org, TMC, and WIE

New website & Social Media

Election

Attendee feedback survey, draw prizes, guest appreciation

2013 Record of Activities

2013 Technical Meetings/Speakers (18)Jan: “RF Multicarrier Signaling and Antennas Systems for Low SNR Broadband Underwater Communications”

Dr. Brian Kelly, UT at San Antonio

Feb: “Bridging Design to Test with NI Software Defined Radio (SDR) Platforms” Dr. Nikhil Kindargi, NI

Mar: “Secure Elements: The Core of Your Armor in the Wildlands of the Digital Universe”Mr. Bart Bombay and Dr. Karen Lu, Gemalto

Apr: “From Circuits to Cancer”Dr. Sani Nassif, IBM Research, Austin

May: “Motion Video Processing with the Three-Dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)”Dr. Raymond Westwater, ATT

May: “Do you want to be the next IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow?”Ms. Leslie Martinich, founder of Competitive Focus

July: “Complex Event Processing of Bio-Signals in Healthcare” Dr. Choudur K. Lakshminarayan, HP Research, Austin

August “Start-up 2013 – It’s a Brave New World Out There”Dave Panos, Co-Founder and CEO of social media tools pioneer Pluck

August “Manage Your Career – Don’t Get Blindsided by Reality” Workshop (1-6pm)5 speakers

September ”The hyperscale cloud: A new era of elastic and efficient computing”Ripal Nathuji, Cloud architect at Calxeda

October "Evolution of SDN in the Next Generation Cloud ” – Luncheon SeminarFreescale, IBM, Futureware

October “What is the Role of MIMO in Future Cellular Networks: Massive? Coordinated? mmWave?” Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Robert Heath, UT Austin – Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Signal Processing Society

October (4) “Advances in Neural Engineering Research and Education” at IBM, HP, Interview with Health Talk, COMSOC/SP/CS Distinguished Speaker Dr. Metin Akay, Founder Bio Medical Dept., UH

December: "Defying Nyquist in Analog to Digital Conversion”Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Yonina C. Eldar, Haifa, Israel

December: "Improving Healthcare Delivery Through University-Industry Collaboration”Prof. Jonathan F. Bard , The University of Texas

2013 Non-Technical Meetings (13)JAN(5): “RWW 2013 Conference & Exhibits”

- COMSOC/SP Exhibit - Plenary Session – Speaking on behalf of COMSOC President- Welcoming Reception - ETS Technical Tour- Banquet & Awards

AUG: “COMSOC/SP - GLOBAL SIP 2013 Meeting with UT”(Marketing Chair, GLOBESIP Marketing Flyer, Sliver Sponsor, ….)

SEP: “Speaker/Officers Appreciation Dinner”

OCT (2): D.S. Dr. Akay lunch with IBM D.S. Dr. Akay dinner with COMSOC/SP/CS

DEC (3): IEEE GLOBESIP 2013- Exhibit Dec 5- Exhibit Dec 6- Exhibit Dec 7

DEC: COMSOC/SP EOY MTG

2013 Professional (7) / ADMIN (6)

FEB: EWEEK -“Emerging Trends in Smart Networking” Mr. Nikolay Guenov, Mr. Stephen Turnbull, Dr. Kowk Wu, Freescale

APR (2): “R5 Meeting”- April 6 – Annual Meeting- April 7 – PACE Training

AUG (3): NI - Aug 5 - Aug 6 – Texas Day - Aug 7

2013 Professional (7)

2013 ADMIN (5)JAN: COMSOC/SP

APR: COMSOC/SP

JUL: COMSOC/SPAUG: COMSOC/SPSEP: COMSOC/SP

2013 Outreach GLOBECOM/ICC

• 2013 ICC (June, 2013)• Promote Gobecom2014

• IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 (Dec. 9-13) • Promote GLOBECOM 2014

2013 Theme/Topics/Speakers/ApplicationsAdvancement of Technology in healthcare

2013 Topics/Speakers/Applications:Apr. “From Circuits to Cancer”

Dr. Sani Nassif, IBM Research, Austin Application: Impact of computer processing power to precision in treating cancer

July. “Complex Event Processing of Bio-Signals in Healthcare”Dr. Choudur K. Lakshminarayan, Principal HP Research, AustinApplication: Automated discovery of heart conditions and remote delivery of healthcare

Oct. “Advances in Neural Engineering Research and Education” D.S. Dr. Metin Akay, Founder Bio Medical Dept., UHApplication: Future trends towards science of medical health

Nov. “Ageing and Brain Science” Mr. Wayne Caswell, Founder and Senior Editor of Modern Health TalkApplication: Brings complex scientific topics in healthcare to layman terms for the elderlycommunity

Dec. "Defying Nyquist in Analog to Digital Conversion"D.L. Prof. Professor Yonina C. Eldar, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Application: Medical images - Advancement in lowering sampling rates and maintaining sameresolution

Dec. "Improving Healthcare Delivery Through University-Industry Collaboration"Prof. Jonathan F. Bard , The University of TexasApplication: “Operations Research” best of practices contribution to Healthcare solutions

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Website / Social Mediahttp://sites.ieee.org/ct-comsp/

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2013 NIWEEK – Info table

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• Globcom 2014 – First Digital conference that will bring blend between technology advancement (Academia) and Applications (Industry), providing a unique value proposition.

6 Keynote Speakers20 Tracks Sessions/DayShowcase technology on exhibit floorSocial ProgramTarget 2K Attendees WorldwideAustin Downtown Hilton

www.ieee-globecom.org/2014Companies signed up include: AT&T, NI, Cisco, Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent

Opportunities to sign-up as:> Volunteer> Speaker> Patron/Exhibitor

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