Explore IEEE Board’s Impactful Leadership

The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the long run path 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 expertise neighborhood worldwide whereas fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing expertise for the good thing about humanity.

This text options IEEE Board of Administrators members Takako Hashimoto, W. Clem Karl, and Yong Lian.

IEEE Senior Member Takako Hashimoto

Director, Area 10: Asia Pacific

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Hashimoto is a professor and deputy to the president at Chiba University of Commerce, in Ichikawa Metropolis, Japan, the place she makes a speciality of data science, artificial intelligence, and knowledge methods. Hashimoto can also be concerned with growing strategies to investigate large-scale social media knowledge to grasp public perceptions and determine rising subjects.

A key focus of Hashimoto’s work has concerned the evaluation of public sentiment and knowledge diffusion associated to main world occasions, such because the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and political elections. Her analysis on this space has contributed to a greater understanding of how misinformation spreads and the way public belief in establishments evolve over time, enabling organizations to reply extra successfully to societal wants and issues.

An lively member of the IEEE Computer Society, Hashimoto obtained the 2022 IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member Award, the 2019 IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award, and the 2019 IEEE Region 10 Women in Engineering Excellent Volunteer Award. She served on the IEEE Laptop Society’s board of governors from 2021 to 2023 and was chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee in 2015 and 2016.

Because the IEEE Region 10 director, Hashimoto is targeted on fostering collaboration, engagement, and professional development throughout the Asia Pacific area. She is moreover dedicated to selling involvement within the science, expertise, engineering, and mathematics fields and actively helps initiatives that empower all engineers and scientists. By means of her management roles in IEEE, she strives to create an atmosphere that nurtures many views and helps drive innovation and progress in expertise and engineering.

IEEE Life Fellow W. Clem Karl

Director and vice chairman, Publication Companies and Merchandise

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A professor and chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Karl has researched computational imaging and statistical sign and image processing with purposes in safety and medical imaging.

Particularly, Karl’s work has contributed to the development of quite a lot of sensible purposes together with airport checkpoint screening and tomographic cardiac imaging, via which 3D pictures of the guts, blood vessels, and surrounding constructions may also help diagnose coronary heart situations similar to blockages within the coronary arteries. In his work on airport checkpoint baggage-screening expertise, his algorithms have decreased the variety of false alarms and elevated the variety of suitcases processed. For medical purposes, his approaches have sought to scale back affected person doses of medicine and have enhanced the detection of irregular situations.

A longtime lively IEEE volunteer, Karl is a member of the IEEE Computer, IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology, and IEEE Signal Processing societies. He has authored greater than 250 journal and convention articles and has contributed to a variety of books together with Multi-Sensor Picture Fusion and Its Purposes, The Handbook of Picture and Video Processing, and Compressed Sensing and Sparse Filtering. He was the inaugural editor in chief and a cofounder of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, and he was editor in chief of the month-to-month journal IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

Karl has served in positions associated to IEEE publications for greater than 20 years. In his function as vice chairman of Publication Services and Products, he goals to keep up IEEE publications because the trusted repository of the scientific document.

IEEE Fellow Yong Lian

Director, Division I

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Lian has been a technical chief and pioneer in biomedical circuits and methods for greater than 40 years. His groundbreaking improvements have led to self-powered, miniaturized biomedical sensors that allow steady, real-time health monitoring. These developments have significantly enhanced the adoption and efficacy of wearable and implantable medical devices for these with continual diseases. His gadgets permit for early detection and well timed intervention with out frequent hospital visits. By making long-term, real-time monitoring extra accessible, his work is revolutionizing affected person care and lessening the burden on the health care system.

Lian is a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems, IEEE Electron Devices, and IEEE Solid-State Circuits societies in addition to the IEEE Standards Association. An lively volunteer, he was the 2018–2019 president of the IEEE Circuits and Programs Society. From 2022 to 2024 he was a member-at-large for the IEEE Publication Services and Products board.

He has coauthored greater than 340 papers, one ebook, and 4 ebook chapters, and he holds 20 patents. He has obtained 18 analysis awards and a number of other honors. Amongst his most up-to-date recognitions, he was the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s Meritorious Service Award, the 2023 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s Mac Van Valkenburg Award, and the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award.

Lian has performed a pivotal function in shaping the biomedical engineering neighborhood. In 2003 he helped discovered the IEEE Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) technical committee, and in 2004 launched the IEEE BioCAS Convention. He additionally helped launch IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Extra lately, he based the IEEE Standards Workshop on AI for Healthcare to advertise the mixing of synthetic intelligence into medical purposes.

As IEEE Division 1 director, Lian is spearheading efforts to reinforce collaboration amongst societies and councils. He’s main initiatives to develop IEEE requirements for versatile and wearable biomedical gadgets in his effort to advance well being care innovation and lay the groundwork for next-generation medical technology.