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The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) elected new officers at its Annual Meeting held August 20 in Birmingham in conjunction with its 2012 International Conference on Nanotechnology.
Representatives of the twenty-one IEEE Societies who are Council members gather annually to conduct Council business and elect officers. This year three positions were up for election: President-elect 2012-13, Vice-President for Conferences 2013-14, and Vice-President for Finance 2013-14.
Prof. Ari Requicha, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and the Gordon Marshall Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern California was elected President-elect; he will take office January 1, 2013 and will become President in 2014-15. Prof. James Morris, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State University, Oregon, was elected Vice-President for Conferences; he will take office January 1, 2013. Xiaoping Yun, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterrey, California, was re-elected Vice-President for Finance 2013-14.
 Ari Requicha |
Requicha is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and the Gordon Marshall Chair in Engineering at USC, and was the founding director of USC’s Laboratory for Molecular Robotics. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM and the AAAS. He is listed in the ISI Web of Knowledge as a highly cited researcher. Requicha received the USC Senior Research Award; the first-ever Pierre Bezier Award; the Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; and the Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC). He is currently serving as the NTC Vice-President for Publications, and was Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2007- 2010. |
 Jim Morris |
Morris is currently a Professor at Portland State University, where his research interests are in electronics packaging and nanotechnology. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEEE Components Packaging & Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Society Board of Governors. Morris represents CPMT on the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, and serves as NTC Awards Chair, chair of the Nanopackaging Technical Committee, and as the nanopackaging column editor for IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine. He served as the General Chair of the 2011 International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO 2011), and was previously CPMT Treasurer (1990-97) and VP for Conferences (1998-2003). Morris has edited four books on electronics packaging, including one on nanopackaging, and co-authored a fifth, and has two co-edited books on nanodevices nearing completion. |
 Xiaoping Yun |
Yun is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He has actively volunteered in IEEE as a society/council officer and conferences organizer. Yun was Finance Chair of the First IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO 2001), and has served NTC as Vice President of Finance in 2004-06 and 2011-12. Yun served as General Chair of the 2010 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2010), and was a Member of the NTC Fellow Evaluation Committee in 2006-07. He was Treasurer of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) in 2004-2010. |