Austin, TX 375 Members (50+ added in 2014) Austin COMSOC/SP Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting January 16, 2016 San Marcos, TX

Austin Chapter Transitioning Leadership Team 2015 Chapter Achievement Award 2015 Chapter-of-the-Year Award Chapter Chair - Fawzi Behmann Vice Chair - Hanan Potash Treasurer - Kwok Wu Secretary - Syed Shah Technical Program, Mem. Dev. - Sam Mehra Webmaster, Social Media - Shabbir Bharmal AT&T Liaison - Frances Freeman 2015 Chapter Chair - Pierre Costa Vice Chairs - Fawzi Behmann & Hanan Potash Treasurer - Fawzi Behmann Secretary & Program Logistics – Brad Wallace Mem. Dev. & Historian – Dennis O’Connor Webmaster & Social Media – Norma Antunano AT&T Liaison - Frances Freeman 2016

Austin COMSOC/SP Chapter - 2015 Technical Sessions Jan 19 "Meters to Models: Using Residential Smart Meter Data to Predict and Control Home Energy Usage” Krystian Perez, UT Feb 19 “Building Chips using 3rd party IP - Plug & Play or Plug & Pray” Rajesh Raina, Manager, EDA/IP Design Technology, Freescale Semionductor Feb 23 “Carrier-Grade Networks toward the Future - NGN and Its Issues” DL: Koichi Asatani, IEEE DL, IEEE Fellow, IEICE Fellow, Professor Emeritus, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Mar 19 “An Insider View of the 1960’s Space Program” Mr. Dennis P. O’Connor, PE Apr 23 “A method to Test Audio/Video Delay in Adaptive Bitrate Networks” Mr. Pierre Costa, Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T May 21 "Leadership Improv” Glenn Stephens is a software engineer, project manager , Leslie Martinich is a software engineer and executive in the software industry June 11 "Applying Engineering Methods to Cancer Radiation Therapy” Dr. Sani Nassif, President of Radyalis Sep 10, 2015 “Multicore Processor Solutions for Smart Factories, Smart Cities and Smart Energy” Mr. Altaf Hussain, Business Development Manager, Freescale’s Digital Networking group Tech  Oct 15, 2015  “ Machine Learning and Signal processing Methods in Live Business Intelligence Operations” Dr. Choundur Lakshminarayan, Principal Research Scientist, HP Tech  Nov 4, 2015  “Trustworthy Hardware” Distinguished Prof. Ramesh Karri, Prof. ECE, Ploytechnic Institute, NYU Tech  Dec 10, 2015  “Signal processing and analytics in managing perceptual and data quality in video applications” "Perception meets quantitative signal processing in next-generation television"  Speaker: Sean T. McCarthy, Ph.D. Fellow, ARRIS Group “Ensuring Quality of Experience for Video Applications in a Data Network” Speaker: Roland A. Saville, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems Completed L31 Notes:

Austin COMSOC/SP Chapter - 2015 Outreach Activities DLT/DSP – Sponsor: DL February 23 Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Koichi Asatani Community Events – Sponsorship: IEEEE Wearable Event - September 23 Texas Wireless Summit - October 16 CAA & CYA Celebration events Nov 6-7 Collaboration CTS – Spring & Fall Section Meetings COMSOC/SP Admin/Planning - Periodical COMSOC/CS Planning/Joint sessions Closer collaboration with AT&T, IBM, UT, Freescale IEEE CTS Collabratec Moderator IEEE CTS PAPR – Policy & Procedures IEEE CTS PACE Section Chair IEEE PACE Automation Program Ambassador representing the chapter at other functions Feb 16 IEEE IM Chapter - speaker April 17 IEEE R5 Annual meeting - Recipient of R5 Outstanding member Award July 23 IEEE Galveston Bay Section - Distinguished Speaker Oct 15 IEEE 2-page article on Austin COMSOC Best of Practices Nov 19 IEEE San Antonio Chapter – Distinguished Speaker Dec 7 IEEE Globecom2015 – Recipient of 2015 CAA and & CYA Dec 15 IEEE Kingston Chapter – Distinguished speaker Dec 16 IEEE Montreal Chapter – Distinguished speaker Dec 17 IEEE Quebec City Chapter – Distinguished speaker Q4 Budget Preparation and Election Notes:

2015 Chapter Achievement Award 2015 Chapter-of-the-Year Award Austin, TX R5/CTS/Austin IEEE Communications Society (over 50,000 members) Chapter Achievement Award/NA Austin, TX Chapter of The Year Award/Global 93 Chapters/ NA 212 Chapters/ Global 375 Members (50+ added in 2014) Great for AUSTIN/CTS/R5

Austin COMSOC Chapter – Appreciation Event Nov 6, 2015 2015 Chapter Achievement Award 2015 Chapter-of-the-Year Award Austin, TX

2015 Chapter Achievement Award 2015 Chapter-of-the-Year Award Austin, TX

2015 Chapter Achievement Award 2015 Chapter-of-the-Year Award Austin, TX

2015 Chapter Achievement Award 2015 Chapter-of-the-Year Award R5/CTS/Austin Austin Chapter Vision COMSOC/SP Austin is a community comprised of a diverse group of industry professionals with a common interest in advancing communications & Signal Processing technologies. Mission Statement The IEEE chapter of Communications & Signal Processing Societies seeks to be the organization of choice for communications and signaling processing technologists in the Central Texas Area and to provide education and networking for those professionals. 2016 Chapter Objectives: Hold monthly high quality technical meeting Theme: Sensing/SDN/Big Data/Cognitive computation & services that addresses many fields empowered leveraging IoT, wireless technology for healthcare & Fitness, Smart energy, Smart Transportation, Smart cities. Distinguished Lecturer program COMSOC/SP Website http://sites.ieee.org/ct-comsp/ Community/Industry/University Outreach – IEEE Collabratec Initiative Outreach, Support IEEE Summit on Big Data (April 24), Texas Wireless Summit (Oct. 16) Chapter financial health Notes:

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