The IEEE Board of Administrators shapes the long run route of IEEE and is dedicated to making sure IEEE stays a powerful and vibrant group—serving the wants of its members and the engineering and know-how neighborhood worldwide—whereas fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing know-how for the advantage of humanity.
This text options IEEE Board of Administrators members Sergio Benedetto, Jenifer Castillo, and Fred Schindler.
IEEE Life Fellow Sergio Benedetto
Vice President, Publication Companies and Merchandise
Sergio Bregni
Benedetto is a professor emeritus at Politecnico di Torino, in Turin, Italy. His analysis in digital communications has contributed to the idea of error-correcting codes, which yield efficiency near the Shannon concept limits and, in accordance with Benedetto, clarify “the astonishing efficiency” of turbo codes. Benedetto has collaborated with the European House Company and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design codes that are actually commonplace for satellite tv for pc communications.
As an lively member of the IEEE Communications Society and in positions he has held associated to IEEE publications for greater than 20 years, Benedetto has seen IEEE’s most invaluable asset at work—nice scientists within the IEEE area of pursuits prepared to serve their neighborhood as volunteers.
Benedetto has been lively in digital communications for greater than 40 years. He has coauthored 5 books and greater than 250 papers. His publications have acquired greater than 20,000 citations. He’s an IEEE Life Fellow and a member of the Academy of Science of Turin. He has acquired quite a few worldwide awards all through his profession, together with the 2008 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Award.
IEEE Senior Member Jenifer Castillo
Director, Area 9: Latin America
Lufthansa Technik
Castillo is a gross sales and key account supervisor in Puerto Rico for a number one upkeep, restore, and overhaul providers supplier within the aviation trade. In her function, she heads tasks, together with negotiating and executing contracts, and considers prospects’ wants whereas prioritizing aviation trade security. Or, as Castillo likes to say, she “performs with planes on the attractive island of Puerto Rico.”
A member of the IEEE Aerospace and Digital Methods Society and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Castillo has been an lively IEEE volunteer for a few years. She was the primary Latina to chair the IEEE Ladies in Engineering committee, bringing a unique perspective to the group. Throughout her 2021-2022 time period, she launched a number of advantages, together with two awards and a global scholarship, whereas nurturing a world volunteer community supporting girls’s development in science, know-how, engineering and arithmetic fields.
Castillo helped discovered IEEE MOVE Puerto Rico, which is a conveyable model of the IEEE-USA MOVE program that gives communities affected by pure disasters with energy and Web entry in areas. The catastrophe response throughout hurricane Maria, supported by the IEEE Basis, was the turning level for the native sections to advertise this initiative that enabled volunteers to help the Purple Cross’ response and restoration efforts.
Castillo has been a member of the IEEE Business Engagement Committee and chair of the IEEE Puerto Rico and Caribbean Part. In 2020, she was acknowledged with the IEEE Member and Geographic Actions Achievement Award for “sustained and excellent achievements in selling college students, IEEE Younger Professionals, and IEEE WIE membership improvement in Latin America and the Caribbean.” She was honored with the IEEE Area 9 Oscar C. Fernández Excellent Volunteer Award in 2020.
IEEE Life Fellow Manfred “Fred” Schindler
Vice President, Technical Actions
Schindler has spent his profession in trade engaged on RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave semiconductors. He has led the event of superior RF semiconductor merchandise for industrial and protection functions. “Taking a know-how from the lab and seeing it by way of to high-volume manufacturing is rewarding,” he says, “particularly realizing that just about everybody carries a tool utilizing the applied sciences we developed.”
A member of the IEEE Microwave Concept and Know-how Society (IEEE MTT-S), Schindler served as its president in 2003. He additionally has served as chair of each the IEEE Conferences Committee and the IEEE Worldwide Microwave Convention. As vice chairman of Technical Actions, he’s working to beat structural limitations amongst established communities to make sure IEEE’s future stability and success.
Schindler holds 11 patents and has revealed greater than 40 technical articles. He based the IEEE Radio and Wi-fi Symposium, and has contributed a column on microwave enterprise to IEEE Microwave Journal since 2011. He acquired the 2018 IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Service Award for his efforts benefiting the society and the microwave occupation.