Results announced for all newly elected IEEE
CS leadership positions
LOS
ALAMITOS, Calif., Sept. 18,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The IEEE Computer Society
(IEEE CS) today announces that Hironori
Washizaki, currently serving as 1st Vice President of the
IEEE CS, has been voted IEEE CS 2024 president-elect (2025
president).
Hironori Washizaki is
a Professor and the Associate Dean of the Research Promotion
Division at Waseda University in
Tokyo, and a Visiting Professor at
the National Institute of Informatics. He also works in industry as
Outside Directors of SYSTEM INFORMATION and eXmotion. He has been
on the IEEE CS Board of Governors since 2021 and has led
professional and educational activities, including the evolution of
the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK)
and organizing educational courses and certifications at the CS
Professional and Educational Activities Board (PEAB).
He will serve as the 2025 IEEE CS president for a one-year term
beginning 1 January 2025. The
president oversees IEEE CS programs and operations and is a
nonvoting member of most IEEE CS program boards and committees.
Washizaki garnered 2,296 votes, compared with 1,977 votes cast
for Mike Hinchey, who served six
years as President of the International Federation for Information
Processing (IFIP) and is Emeritus Director of Lero—the Science
Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and Professor of
Software Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
The 2023 election had a 12.79% turnout with 4,428 ballots cast.
The turnout percentage was lower than the 2022 election which had a
14.01% turnout (4,945 ballots cast) and was lower than the 2021
election, which had a turnout of 14.01% (5,238 ballots cast).
2024 FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Grace A. Lewis, a
Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering
Institute (SEI) and principal investigator for the Automating
Mismatch Detection and Testing in Machine Learning Systems project,
was elected first vice president with 4,109 votes.
2024 SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Nils Aschenbruck, a Full Professor of Computer Science at
Osnabrueck University, Germany,
with research interests that include computer networks, network
security, and scenario modeling, was elected second vice president
with 3,009 votes.
Shashikant Patil, a Full
Professor in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE),
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data
Science (DS), garnered 1,164 votes.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
The six elected members of the Board of Governors for the term
beginning 1 January 2024 are:
Members-at-Large for a Three-Year Term 1
January 2024 – 31 December
2026
- Megha Ben – Siemens (1,976
votes)
- Terry Benzel – University of Southern California – Information
Sciences Institute (1,749 votes)
- Mrinal Karvir – Intel Corporation (1,749 votes)
- Andreas Reinhardt – Technical
University of Clausthal, Germany
(1,593 votes)
- Deborah Silver – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2,216 votes)
- Yoshiko Yasuda – Hitachi Ltd.
(1,979 votes)
Results for other Board of Governors candidates:
- Maiga Chang – Athabasca
University, Canada (1,019
votes)
- Ramalatha Marimuthu – iExplore Foundation for Sustainable
Development (1,071 votes)
- Irene Pazos Viana – Uruguay
Section (1,223 votes)
- George J. Proeller – Independent
Security Consultant (1,152 votes)
- Riri Fitri Sari – Universitas Indonesia (981 votes)
- Andrew Seely – University of Maryland Global Campus (1,273
votes)
- Celia Shahnaz – Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology (1,208 votes)
- Fei Su – Intel Corporation (946
votes)
- Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman –
Software Methods and Tools (1,490 votes)
Candidates on the ballot are selected by the IEEE CS Nominations
Committee or by petition. The Nominations Committee accepts
nominations from members until March of the current year and
presents its nominations to the Board of Governors for final slate
approval.
Members also approved amendments to the Computer Society
Constitution to reduce the number of elected vice presidents from
two to one. (3653 in favor, 256 against, 519 abstained).
Results of the 2023 IEEE CS election will be published in the
December issue of Computer.
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