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The IEEE Nanotechnology Council Women in Nanotechnology (WIN)/DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) leadership series will begin on August 18 and run through Sept. 5, 2022.

IEEE WIN/WIE/DEI Leadership series is a set of interviews with international leaders promoting women /men /DEI in leadership, women /DEI development, and inspiring young engineers to take an academic /nanotechnology interest in engineering. Our main focus is to promote women and go beyond gender balance.

The IEEE NTC  Women in nanotechnology  leadership  series highlights accomplishments in nanotechnology fields. The interviews of the leaders in the series provide a broad overview of multi-faceted contributions to nanotechnology engineering over the past years and future trends. Each subsequent program is dedicated to illuminating research and achievements in key, targeted areas of contemporary nanotechnology engineering and IEEE endeavors. The goal for the series is to raise awareness of the pivotal work these leaders are undertaking in areas of keen importance to our global community in order to inspire the young generation.

For more information on NTC WIN/DEI see the Women in Nanotechnology page.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/63RqUwhQKczhfo1AA

Speakers:

• Prof. Ajay Agarwal, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India (August 19, 2022 @ 1500 IST)
• Dr. Pooja Devi, Principal Scientist at CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (August 30, 2022 @ 1900 IST)
• Prof. Davinder Kaur, IIT Roorkee, India (Septemebr 5, 2022 @ 1900 IST)
• Prof. Kathleen Kramer, University of San Diego, USA (August 18, 2022 @ 1830 IST)
• Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Pillay Chair Professor in EE at IIT Delhi, India (August 24, 2022 @ 1100 IST)
• Prof. (Dr) V.R. Singh, Distinguished Professor, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, India (August 24, 2022 @ 1000 IST)

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It is my pleasure to announce the  appointment of two Regional Coordinators for IEEE NTC Women in Nanotechnology (WIN)/WIE/DEI:

• Pawan Kumar, IIT Indore, Vice Chair IEEE NTC IIT Indore Chapter and IEEE NTC WIN Regional Coordinator (R10)
• Stephen A. Okwiri, THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA, IEEE Kenya Section Student Representative and IEEE NTC WIN Regional Coordinator (R8, Africa)

Role of the Regional Coordinators

• IEEE WIN/DEI Regional Coordinator focused on supporting and meeting the members’ needs and IEEE membership recruitment and retention strategies
• Regional Coordinator will attend the IEEE NTC WIN virtual meetings
• Host or moderate the WIN events and flagship events
• Will be listed on WIN Charter
• Participate in special projects

See the IEEE NTC WIN page for more information.

Kanika Singh, Dr.

IEEE NTC WIN Chair

To be successful, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies require the ongoing support of the entire organization, as well as continued application of improvement. Join the IEEE Nanotechnology Council Women in Nanotechnology (WIN) for this important Virtual round table discussion on DEI prospects and challenges.

IEEE Diversity Statement:

IEEE’s mission to foster technological innovation and excellence to benefit humanity requires the talents and perspectives of people with different personal, cultural, and disciplinary backgrounds. IEEE is committed to advancing diversity in the technical profession, and to promoting an inclusive and equitable culture that welcomes, engages, and rewards all who contribute to the field, without regard to race, religion, gender, disability, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. For further information visit the IEEE diversity website.

DATE: 20 April 2022
TIME: 11AM EST ~12.30PM EST

View Recording

Moderator:

Kanika Singh, IEEE NTC Women in Nanotechnology Chair

Panelists:

• Fabrizio Lombardi, IEEE NTC President
• Kanika Singh, IEEE NTC Women in Nanotechnology Chair
• Jenifer Castillo R., IEEE WIE (Women in Engineering) Chair
• Dalma Novak, IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) Chair

Agenda:

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EVENT: IEEE NTC WIN Celebrating International Women’s Day

TECH SEMINAR BY PAMELA NORRIS

15 March 2022, 8pm(EST)

Agenda:

• Introduction of IEEE NTC WIN Committee
• Seminar: “Hold the Door! Making Way for the Next Generation of Scholars and Leaders”, Pamela Norris
• Closing Remarks: “About IEEE WIE”, Celia Shahnaz

View recording on the NTC WIN IEEE.tv. (IEEE members only)
To apply to join the NTC WIN Committee see the committee page.

Event Chair: Dr. Kanika Singh, IEEE NTC WIN Chair Dr.Kanika Singh is the IEEE Nanotechnology Council WIN (Women in Nanotechnology) Chair and the NTC’s representative to the IEEE Women in Engineering.
Speaker: Pamela Norris is the Vice Provost for Research at George Washington University, and is an honorary member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), recipient of the Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Engineering Educator Award, former chair of the ASME National Nanotechnology Institute’s Committee on Nanotechnology Education, former Vice President of Institutional Councils for the American Society for Engineering Education, and now serves as Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. She is known for international leadership in nano and microscale thermal science and for her dedication to increasing diversity in the STEM disciplines. She is the co-author of the book “Women in Nanotechnology Contributions from the Atomic Level and Up”, part of the Women in Engineering and Science book series by Springer.	Edited by Pamela M. Norris and Lisa E. Friedersdorf
Prof.Celia Shahnaz, 2022 IEEE WIE Committee Chair-Elect Celia Shahnaz, SMIEEE, Fellow IEB, received Ph.D. degree from Concordia University, Canada and is currently a Professor at, Department of EEE, BUET, Bangladesh since 2015. She has published more than 150 international journal/conference papers. She is a recipient of the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship/Fellowship and Bangladesh Academy of Science Gold Medal for her contribution in Science and Technology. Her research interests include the areas of signal processing for speech analysis and speech enhancement, audio-visual recognition for biometric security, control system, robotics, pattern recognition,  machine learning and deep learning for audio, video, biomedical, power signals, multimodal emotion recognition, and humanitarian technology. She is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE MGA Achievement Award, 2021 Inspiring Women in Academia Award from Bangladesh brand forum, 2019 R10 Humanitarian Activities Outstanding Volunteer Award, 2016 MGA Leadership Award 2015 WIE Inspiring Member Award, 2013 R10 WIE Professional Volunteer Award. She has been elected as 2022 IEEE WIE Committee Chair-Elect and she will serve as the 2023-2024 IEEE WIE Committee Chair. She has been appointed as 2022-23 Member, IEEE New Initiative Committee, 2021-23 Chair, IEEE SPS Women in Signal Processing, 2021-23 Liaison between IEEE SPS and IEEE WIE. She has been appointed as 2021-22 Member, IEEE History Committee, Liaison between IEEE History Committee and IEEE WIE. See https://www.celiashahnaz.com/

We are pleased to announce Dr.Kanika Singh as the IEEE Nanotechnology Council WIN (Women in Nanotechnology) Chair. She is also the NTC’s representative to the IEEE Women in Engineering.

Dr. Kanika Singh is the Senior Member of IEEE and working as Senior Project Manager at ABS (American Bureau of Shipping). Dr. Singh pursued her education from Top  university, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi), Karlsruhe University, Germany and Ph.D from Pusan National University, South Korea. With her 25 years of IEEE Membership, she took various roles and positions at IEEE. Now serving as the Advisory Board Member of IEEE NTC TryNano and  IEEE WISE. Also served as Vice Chair of IEEE IMS/EMBS Delhi chapter.

She is recipient of various technical fellowship awards and academic awards, few of them include the prestigious Brain Korea (BK21) fellowship Award, Korean Research Fellowship (KRF) award, Best paper awardee at IEEE-IEC_KATS, IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award, DAAD German government fellowship award, and Outstanding research paper award at Int. conf. Kyushu University, Japan.  She worked as the International Scholar at IMEC-KU-Leuven, Belgium and  research on BioMEMS/Nanotechnology/Instrumentation/standards fetched some awards such as Best paper Award for Region 10, at IEEE Int. Conf. at Atlanta- Georgia USA. She also has given various invited talks at different forums.

As Chair of the WIN Committee, her main motive is in developing and implementing systematic for sustainable strategies for WIN committee plans in 2022. See the WIN Committee page for details.