Meet Our Speakers

Speakers

Dr. Tiefu Zhao

Associate Professor and Interim Director for North Carolina Battery Complexity, Autonomous Vehicle and Electrification Research Center (BATT CAVE), UNC Charlotte

Jesse Kirkpatrick

Research Associate Professor at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing

Kathleen Kramer

2024 IEEE President Elect

Austin Green

NASCAR Driver

Greg Byrd

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor at NC State University

Jan Iglesias

Software Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments

Ria Ghosh

Delivery Manager, Obstacle Intelligence, John Deere

Jim Signorile

Campus Manager, Lockheed Martin University Relations

Dr. Bruce Strauss

IEEE Council on Superconductivity

Y.C. Wang

Director, Global Academic Program at DigiKey Electronics

Dr. Christopher R. Valenta

Principal Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory

Andrew Schmidt

AMD University Program Research and Advanced Development

Christian Winingar

Assistant Distribution Engineer at Burns and McDonnell

Adam Greenberg

Society Executive Director of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

Hamid Krim

Professor of Electrical Engineering in the ECE Department, North Carolina State University

Dr. Joseph Greene

Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute

Andy Chen

President-Elect IEEE Systems Council

Annie Perrin Grisham

Policy Associate IEEE-USA

Payman Dehghanian

Associate Professor at George Washington University

Pam Estes Brewer

Professor and Chair of Technical Communication in the School of Engineering at Mercer University

Fred Schindler

IEEE VP Technical Activities, CTO of Anlotek Ltd

Chad Kidder

IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society

Kathy Herring Hayashi

IEEE Region 6 Director

Peter Seiler

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs at University of Michigan

Chamika Sudusinghe

PhD Student at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Katie Brinker

Senior Nondestructive Evaluation Engineer at Pratt & Whitney

Felix E. Torres

the Electronics Engineering Lead Section Head at NAVAIR

Steve Watkins

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor at Missouri S&T

Witold Kinsner

Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at University of Manitoba

Dr. Rakesh Kumar

IEEE DataPort Chair

Lynn Hegewald

Master’s Program Manager, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Ryan Bales

2024 IEEE-HKN President

Sean Bentley

2025 IEEE-HKN President Elect

Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan

2023 IEEE-HKN President