Get to Know the IEEE Board of Administrators

The IEEE Board of Administrators shapes the long run course of IEEE and is dedicated to making sure IEEE stays a robust and vibrant group—serving the wants of its members and the engineering and expertise group worldwide whereas fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing expertise for the good thing about humanity.

This text options IEEE Board of Administrators members Antonio Luque, Ravinder Dahiya, and Joseph Wei.

IEEE Senior Member Antonio Luque

Director and vp, Member and Geographic Actions

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Luque is a professor of electronics engineering on the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, the place he mentors college students on digital electronics, units, and cyber-physical methods.

His work has centered on electronics, sensors, and microsystems for biomedical purposes. He additionally has labored on the creation of disposable good microsystems for protected manufacturing of radiopharmaceuticals utilized to medical imaging.

Extra lately, Luque has been engaged on cybersecurity and connectivity utilized to the Web of Issues and real-time methods.

He holds grasp’s and doctorate levels in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Sevilla.

Luque has been an lively IEEE volunteer since 2002, when he first grew to become concerned within the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society’s technical conferences, and developed software program to streamline lots of the society’s operations. He’s additionally a member of the IEEE Electron Gadgets and IEEE Schooling societies.

He was additionally a coordinator for the IEEE Younger Professionals group for the IEEE Spain Part. He later served as part chair.

Luque was elected because the Area 8 director in 2020–2021 and served as director and vp of IEEE Member and Geographic Actions in 2024. He additionally has served on the IEEE Governance Committee and IEEE European Public Coverage Committee.

He served as an affiliate editor of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Programs from 2013 to 2019 and the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics since 2014. Throughout his profession, he has authored 20 journal articles, 40 convention papers, three ebook chapters, and a textbook.

Luque acquired the 2007 Younger Researcher Award from the Academia Europaea, which acknowledges promising younger students on the put up doctoral degree.

IEEE Fellow Ravinder Dahiya

Director, Division X

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Dahiya is a professor {of electrical} and pc engineering at Northeastern College, in Boston. He leads the college’s Bendable Electronics and Sustainable Applied sciences group.

His analysis pursuits embody versatile and printed electronics, robotic tactile sensing, digital pores and skin expertise, haptics, wearables, and clever interactive methods.

Dahiya developed the primary energy-generating tactile pores and skin, which, along with offering contact suggestions, generates vitality that may function actuators utilized by robots. His robotic tactile sensing analysis was acknowledged by IEEE by his elevation to the grade of Fellow.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Dahiya and his analysis group developed a low-cost DIY ventilator and a good bandage that accelerated therapeutic and helped detect the indicators of coronavirus by respiratory suggestions.

He holds a bachelor’s diploma in electrical engineering from the Kurukshetra College in Kurukshetra, India, a grasp’s diploma in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Expertise in Delhi, and a doctorate in humanoid applied sciences from Istituto Italiano di Technologia and Università di Genova, Italy.

He served as 2022–2023 president of the IEEE Sensors Council, the place he launched a number of initiatives together with journals (e.g., IEEE Journal on Versatile Electronics and IEEE Journal of Chosen Areas in Sensors), conferences (e.g., IEEE Worldwide Convention on Versatile Printable Sensors and Programs and IEEE Biosensors) and Sensors in Highlight networking occasion. Throughout his time as President, he led the twenty fifth anniversary occasions of the IEEE Sensors Council.

He was a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Sensors Journal from 2012 to 2020, IEEE Transactions on Robotics from 2011 to 2017 and founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Journal on Versatile Electronics from 2022 to 2023. He has authored or coauthored greater than 550 analysis publications, in addition to eight books, and he has been granted a number of patents. He has offered greater than 250 keynote addresses and lectures worldwide, together with a 2016 TEDx discuss on “Animating the Inanimate World.”

Dahiya acquired an Engineering and Bodily Sciences Analysis Council fellowship and a Marie Curie fellowship. He was acknowledged with the 2016 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award. He’s additionally Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

IEEE Senior Member Joseph Wei

Director, Area 6: Western U.S.

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A veteran of Silicon Valley, Wei combines his greater than 40 years of expertise within the entrepreneurial and data expertise area along with his ardour for investing in and mentoring startups. He’s a frequent speaker at world startup conferences on entrepreneurship and expertise.

Wei’s dedication to driving innovation and technological development by mentorship has yielded vital outcomes. One in all his portfolio healthcare startups lately debuted on the general public market, valued at over US $3 billion.

He performed a key position in advancing world connectivity by his involvement with the IEEE Requirements Affiliation and its improvement of the IEEE 802.11 customary. Wi-Fi has grow to be the inspiration of recent wi-fi communication, reworking industries, enabling the digital economic system, and bridging communities worldwide.

Wei’s career-long efforts to speed up the widespread adoption of open-source software program have helped empower companies of all sizes to innovate, scale back their expertise prices, and foster world collaboration in software program improvement.

He holds a bachelor’s diploma in electrical engineering from Tufts College in Medford, Massachusetts.

He has served as chair of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley (California) Part, Board of Governors, chair of IEEE Shopper Expertise Society’s Santa Clara Valley Chapter, and chair of IEEE Engineering in Medication and Biology Society chapter in California. In 2023 it grew to become the society’s largest chapter.

He acquired a particular Part Award from the Santa Clara Valley Part in 2020 for his excellent volunteerism and repair as a constructive position mannequin, in addition to a Director’s Particular Award in 2015 for his excellent efficiency because the Santa Clara Valley Part chair, managing and organizing this largest part on the planet to make it simpler and for supporting main IEEE Area 6 initiatives.

Wei credit the distinctive coaching and in depth community of consultants he’s amassed by his IEEE volunteer work for enabling him to supply priceless insights, business connections, and experience that assist him information startups and innovators.