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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. Greene participated in several of the society’s student leadership conferences, where he was a presenter and keynote speaker.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory. Kim’s team continued to improve speech recognition and text-to-speech systems in other products, and every year they commercialized a new engine. But after earning my Ph.D.,

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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After he graduated high school, there was only one university he wanted to attend: Chicago State. About Jack Dongarra Employer: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Title: Professor emeritus, computer science Member grade: Life Fellow Alma mater: Chicago State University. The university recently named him professor emeritus.

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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

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Alma mater: University of Maryland in College Park. Barth initially attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, to pursue a degree in biology, but she soon realized that it wasn’t a good fit for her. She transferred to the University of Maryland in College Park, and changed her major to applied mathematics.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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She went on to form her own groups and lead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the universities she worked for in London and Sydney. She joined City, University of London , as a research fellow working on computational photonics. Agrawal found solace in advocacy and support organizations in London after moving there in 2005.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. She also got involved in organizing conferences in Africa. Her first event was the 2019 PowerAfrica Conference , held in Abuja, Nigeria.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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As a full professor and deputy president of the School of engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy, Metra specializes in design for test and reliability of integrated circuits and systems. Currently, he reviews technical documents for conferences, prizes, and international publications.

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