1. IEEE CIS Women in Computational Intelligence (WCI)
Prepared by
Keeley Crockett
School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

2. WCI Sub-committee 2013 Chair: Keeley Crockett (UK) Vice-chair
Woei Wan Tan (Singapore)
Electronic mailing list coordinator
Jo-Ellen Snyder (USA)
Members
Dipti Srinivasan (Singapore)
Bernadette Bouchon-meunier (France)
G A Vijayalakshmi Pai (India)
Annabel Latham (UK)
Jenni Si (US)
Julia Pau-Choo Chung (Tiawan)
Heike Sichtig (US)
Valerie Cross (US)

3. WCI Sub-committee Roles
Name
Chair / Webinars Liaison
Keeley Crockett
Vice-Chair / GOLD
Woei Wan Tan
DLP Liaison
Julia Pau-Choo Chung
Events / Senior Members
Dipti Srinivasan
Events / WIE
Bernadette Bouchon-meunier
Industrial Liaison
G A Vijayalakshmi Pai
WCI Face Book Page / Social Media
Annabel Latham
Chapters Sub-committee Members Activities
Heike Sichtig
WIE Liason
Jenni Si
Student/Member Activities
Valerie Cross
NB:Where possible roles assigned to members in relation to other sub-committees on which they serve.

4. Activity Plan (1)
Arrange a WCI event at IEEE SSCI, IEEE FUZZ and IEEE CEC
IEEE SSCI April 2013 – organised by Dipti
Organised a panel and lunch reception at IEEE SSCI in Singapore on Wednesday 17th April
Provided an excellent opportunity for conference attendees to address and discuss issues, concerns and professional topics that were not of a distinctly technical nature.
A panel comprising three leading researchers, Prof Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay from India, Prof Ana Bazzan from Brazil, and Dr Katie Bentley from USA shared their success stories, and discussed the challenges they faced in their careers, along with achievements in their respective fields.
IEEE CEC June 2013
Joint WCI-GOLD-Student Activities reception on 20th June at IEEE CEC Organised joint social event with Sub-committee chairs Demetris Eliades, Albert Lam, Stephen Mathews
Featuring speed networking, CIS Quiz and Networking.

5. Activity Plan (2) IEEE FUZZ India July 2013
Bernadette / Keeley placed joint funding request to WIE for IEEE Fuzz joint WIC/WIE event - $300 approved from WIE
Proposed Agenda
Welcome by WCI - brief introduction to WCI sub-committee
IEEE Hyderabad section CIS chapter presentation.
Leader Ship and Innovation Talk
Trends in Fuzzy Systems Benefiting Society presentation
WIE - Hyderabad section talk
Dinner or small reception with networking opportunities
2. Produce a survey of all those currently receiving the WCI electronic newsletter.
Draft questionnaire completed and feedback received from some members of WCI subcommittee
Plan to use Google forms (recommended by Heike). Aim to complete questionnaire and gain approval by end of July 2013
Send out Questionnaires to 400+ names on WCI electronic mailing list and analyse results – to be completed by end October 2013

6. Activity Plan (3)
Promote and publicise WCI activities through Face Book and Linked in (Annabel ) –
Arranged for the Facebook and LinkedIn shortcuts to be added to the IEEE WCI webpage (
Linked with the chair of the IEEE CIS social media committee and Annabel been asked to join the social media committee which should streamline social media communications.
Develop new WCI website (Keeley (with Collette Curry PhD student), Annabel, Bernadette)
Presence established at
Currently the website has not been promoted as live as more content of past events is required. Aim to promote by end July 2013
Promote Senior IEEE Membership to women at major conferences and events (Dipti). Dipti organised booths at SSCI, CEC and FUZZ 2013, + more
Facilitate Industrial Liaison activities by working with the industrial Liaison Sub-committee to develop tutorials (G A Vijayalakshmi Pai )
Semesters 1 and 2
G Work with Industry liaison sub-committee to develop tutorials.

7. Activity Plan (4)
Facilitate senior women researchers being dominated for the distinguished lecturers programme (Julia Pau-Choo Chung)
Julia Pau-Choo Chung current Chair of DLP. Dipti is also a DLP committee member.
On-going promotion of distinguished lecturers programme to women in the Society
Encourage women researchers to propose and give webinars in order to disseminate knowledge on current topics in computational intelligence. (Keeley)
Aim is to propose, plan and organise one webinar to take place in 2013.
Liaise with IEEE CIS GOLD sub-committee to look at establishing joint events (GOLD/WCI) for younger members (Woei Wan Tan).
Semester 1:
Participate in GOLD sub-committee phone conference(s) and help Gold sub-committee set up Google+ group and community page. - Completed

8. Activity Plan (5)
Encourage and promote women to contribute towards the societies Education activities by developing material for the Educational repository (Jenni) - On-going
Liaise with the Student Liaison sub-committee to host joint events for WCI and to encourage and support student female members (Valerie).
Semesters 1 and 2 :
Report on joint events hosted by the Student Liaison Committee.
Organise joint events
To support the work of the Chapters sub-committee (Heike)
To maintain and update the WCI Operations Manual
Current version is 1.4.

9. Activity Plan (6)
14. To promote closer liaison with Women in Engineering (Bernadette and Jenni).
Apply for WIE funding to host joint WCI/WIE events – completed for IEEE FUZZ
Bernadette presented the WCI activity at the recent in-person WIE meeting in Atlanta (May 2013).
Bernadette as a member of the Region 8 Women in Engineering committee, is co-organizing a meeting during the IEEE CIVEMSA 2013 conference, to be held in Milan in July, gathering region 8 WIE and WCI.
Jenni presented the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) WIE group activity report
15. Sub-committee members to promote WCI in their own IEEE Chapters (ALL).
on-going

10. Planned Activities 2013 and Beyond
Joint Reception WCI and Women in Engineering at IEEE FUZZ 2013, India
Organisers: Dr Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Dr Keeley Crockett
currently working with Dr. Vijaya Lata (Chair of the WIE AG) and Dr. Kumar (Secretary of the Hyderabad Section and Chair of the IEEE CIS, HYD, Section) to plan this event which will be held during the conference.
At IEEE FUZZ the following special sessions were proposed:
SS-8: Applications of Fuzzy Systems in Education and Disability to Benefit Society
Organizers: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier and Keeley Crockett
SS-15: Fuzzy Natural Language Processing
Kiyota Hashimoto, Joao Paulo Carvalho, and Keeley Crockett
Facilitate cross fertilization of ideas across Society sub-committees and enable members to get more involved and contribute towards growth of society.
WCI e-newsletter - will move to delivery each quarter
Proposing a number of Special sessions at WCCI 2014 by WCI sub-committee members.