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

2. 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

3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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

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

7. 2015 Chapter Achievement Award 2015 Chapter-of-the-Year Award
Austin, TX

8. 2015 Chapter Achievement Award 2015 Chapter-of-the-Year Award
Austin, TX

9. 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
Community/Industry/University Outreach – IEEE Collabratec Initiative
Outreach, Support IEEE Summit on Big Data (April 24), Texas Wireless Summit (Oct. 16)
Chapter financial health
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10. Survey feedback form is a key to improvement and
successful future planning
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11. Budget plan guidelines
Challenges
Budget plan guidelines
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12. THANK YOU Questions
Austin, TX