LEILA DE FLORIANI

(Nominated by IEEE Division V)

Professor
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, Maryland, USA
http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~deflo/

POSITION STATEMENT

IEEE is a global leader in science and technology. Several challenges must be addressed for ensuring a continued growth building on its many strengths:

• Define new strategies for engaging and effectively serving the diverse IEEE member community, through personalized focus and benefits, concentrating on the young generation and the needs of members all over the world.
• Strengthen cooperation across IEEE units and extensively promote collaborations to concentrate efforts on new professional trends and societal challenges as well as technological innovations across the multi-facet units and its volunteer base.
• Maintain and strengthen the consistent focus on diversity and inclusion, by promoting membership through outreach strategies and involving underrepresented groups as volunteers in publications, conferences, and governance.
• Lead in open science, by developing sustainable business models for open access, rethinking, and innovating the services offered, and enhancing activities in research reproducibility.

I believe I am uniquely positioned to address these challenges, if elected, by drawing on my professional background and my current and past experience in IEEE and in the Computer Society.

BIOGRAPHY

Leila De Floriani is a professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. Previously she was a professor at the University of Genova, Italy, and held positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Nebraska, and the Italian National Research Council. De Floriani has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications in data visualization, computer graphics and spatial data science. She is an editor of several top journals in her field, and served on committees of over 150 international conferences, contributing to several of them in leadership positions. She is the IEEE Division VIII Director, served as the 2020 IEEE Computer Society (CS) President, and as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). She is a Fellow of IEEE, of Eurographics, of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, an IEEE Visualization Academy inducted member, an IEEE-HKN member, a Solid Modeling Association Pioneer, and a CS Golden Core awardee.

JEAN-LUC GAUDIOT

(Nominated by IEEE Division V)

Distinguished Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine, California, USA
http://pascal.eng.uci.edu/JLG4DD

POSITION STATEMENT

Opening communities, facilitating the production, transmission, and consumption of information, responding to the changing needs and expectations of our members, and crucially, promoting an inclusive reach have been the bedrock on which my service to the Computer Society has been anchored. If elected, I will continue applying these principles and, specifically, I will prioritize several goals:

• Continue work on technology predictions and use the resources of our society to identify upcoming technologies such as AI to support the community with new products including video delivery and press releases.
• Enhance communication and coordination between the CS and other IEEE units, focusing on approaches to membership growth favoring cross-society fertilization.
• Seek innovative ways to reach diverse members and improve member engagement, extending outreach to underrepresented groups, students, and established professionals.
• Adapt our offerings to the geographical variety of our membership.
• Apply new tools to enhance the availability of technical information, including the exploration of opportunities for new product development (e.g., hybrid conferences, Open Access) and exploitation of advances in AI-based technologies.

BIOGRAPHY

Jean-Luc Gaudiot is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he was Department Chair for six years. Prior, he was Professor at the University of Southern California. He received a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA in 1982. He is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS, an IFIP Silver Core Member, and a Professional Member of Eta Kappa Nu.

He was 2017 IEEE Computer Society President, Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board member of several journals as well as a leader of many conferences. He has been a major participant in technology forecasting (Predictions 2024 and 2023 International Roadmap for Devices and Systems).

His many contributions to the architecture of multiprocessors, the design of autonomous driving systems, hardware security, etc., have been published in over 300 articles and books. His research has been sponsored by NSF, DoE, and DARPA, as well as industrial organizations.