IEEE R10 Meeting Minutes Melbourne, March 02-03, 2019 1 IEEE R10 Meeting Meeting Minutes, Melbourne, 02-03 March 2019 The annual R10 meeting was held at Melbourne, Australia during 02-03 March 2019 with 119 participants (25 Executive Committee members, 57 primary delegates and 20 secondary delegates across R10 Sections/Councils, 4 Subsection chairs, 5 guests, and 8 staff) participating in the event. The meeting was held at Pullman & Mercure Melbourne Albert Park Hotel and conducted successfully with support from local organizers and IEEE APO. Agenda and all the detailed presentations are available at this link: http://www.ieeer10.org/2019-r10-annual-meet/ 2019 IEEE REGION 10 MEET - MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 2 & 3 March 2019 (Saturday & Sunday) Updated as at: as of Position Title Given Name Family Name Roll Call Region 10 - Asia & Pacific Region 10 EXCOM 01 R10 Director Prof. Akinori Nishihara √ 02 R10 Past Director Prof. Kukjin Chun √ 03 R10 Director Elect Mr. Deepak Mathur √ 04 R10 Secretary Prof. Takako Hashimoto √ 05 R10 Treasurer Dr. Seishi Takamura √ 06 R10 Vice-Chair of Membership Activities Dr. Zia Ahmed √ 07 R10 Vice-Chair of Professional Activities Prof. Takao Onoye √ 08 R10 Vice-Chair of Technical Activities Dr. Sri Niwas Singh √ 09 R10 Awards & Recognition Committee Chair Prof. Elmer Dadios Not Attending 10 R10 Conference & Technical Seminar Committee Chair Dr. Michael, Ling Chuen Ong √
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IEEE R10 Meeting Minutes Melbourne, March 02-03, 2019
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IEEE R10 Meeting
Meeting Minutes, Melbourne, 02-03 March 2019
The annual R10 meeting was held at Melbourne, Australia during 02-03 March
2019 with 119 participants (25 Executive Committee members, 57 primary
delegates and 20 secondary delegates across R10 Sections/Councils, 4 Subsection
chairs, 5 guests, and 8 staff) participating in the event. The meeting was held at
Pullman & Mercure Melbourne Albert Park Hotel and conducted successfully with
support from local organizers and IEEE APO.
Agenda and all the detailed presentations are available at this link:
http://www.ieeer10.org/2019-r10-annual-meet/
2019 IEEE REGION 10 MEET - MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
2 & 3 March 2019 (Saturday & Sunday)
Updated as at: as of Position Title Given Name Family
Name Roll Call Region 10 - Asia &
Pacific
Region 10 EXCOM
01 R10 Director Prof. Akinori Nishihara √ 02 R10 Past Director Prof. Kukjin Chun √ 03 R10 Director Elect Mr. Deepak Mathur √ 04 R10 Secretary Prof. Takako Hashimoto √ 05 R10 Treasurer Dr. Seishi Takamura √ 06
Dr. Kurnianingsih Kurnianingsih √ 16 R10 Life Members
Committee Chair Prof. Sattupathu V Sankaran Not
Attending
17 R10 Membership Development Committee Chair
Assoc. Prof. Parkash Lohana
Not Attending
18 R10 Newsletter Committee Chair Dr. Mohammad
Faizal Ahmad Fauzi √
19 R10 Professional Activities Committee Chair
Dr. Nirmal Nair √
20 R10 Section & Chapter Committee Chair
Associate Professor Supavadee Aramvith √
21 R10 Strategic Planning Committee Chair
Prof. Byung-Gook Park √
22 R10 Student Activities Committee Chair
Associate Professor Binh Huynh Thi
Thanh √ 23 R10 Student
Representative Ms. Saaveethya Sivakumar √ 24
R10 Women In Engineering Committee Chair
Ms. Emi Yano √
25 R10 Young Professionals Committee Chair
Dr. Takuo Suzuki √ 26 R10 Advisory
Committee Prof. Lawrence, Wai Choong Wong √
27 IEEE President-Elect and R10 Advisory Committee
Prof. Toshio Fukuda √ 28 R10 Advisory
Committee Dr. Ramakrishna Kappagantu √ Region 10 Section & Council - Primary Delegates
29 Australian Capital Territory Section Section Chair Dr Fouad Karouta √
30 Bangalore Section Section Chair Mr. Keshav Bapat √ 31 Bangladesh Section Section Chair Dr. Celia Shahnaz √ 32 Beijing Section Section Chair Prof. Qiuqi Ruan √ 33 Bombay Section Section Chair Mr. Abhay Phansikar √
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34 Busan Section Section Secretary Prof. Young-Min Kang √ 35 Chengdu Section Newsletter Chair Mrs. FengWu Luo √ 36 Daejeon Section Council Vice Chair Prof Bongsue Suh √ 37 Delhi Section Section Chair Prof Prerna Gaur √ 38 Fukuoka Section Section Chair Prof Rin-ichiro Taniguchi √ 39 Guangzhou Section Section Chair Prof. Jun Zhang
Not Attending
40 Gujarat Section Immediate Past Chair Prof. Rajendrasinh Jadeja √
41 Gwangju Section Not
Represented
42 Harbin Section Section Chair Prof. Dianguo Xu √ 43 Hiroshima Section Section Chair Prof. Kensuke Okubo √ 44 Hong Kong Section Interim Vice-Chair Prof Paul Y S Cheung √ 45 Hyderabad Section Section Chair Mr. Narasimhan Venkatesh √ 46 Indonesia Section Section Chair Prof. Fitri Yuli Zulkifli √ 47 Islamabad Section Section Chair Prof Amir Qayyum
Not Attending
48 Kansai Section Section Chair Prof. Toshiharu Sugie √ 49 Karachi Section Section Chair Dr. Mohammad Shaikh
Not Attending
50 Kerala Section Section Chair Dr S M Sameer √ 51 Kharagpur Section Section Treasurer Dr. Debdoot Sheet √ 52 Kolkata Section Chair Mr. Sanjay Kar
Chowdhury √ 53 Lahore Section Section Chair Prof. Dr. Syed Amjad Hussain Shah
Not Attending
54 Macau Section Section Chair Mr. Xiaoju Liu √ 55 Madras Section Section Chair Dr P A
Manoharan Arumugam √ 56 Malaysia Section Section Chair Dr Fawnizu
Azmadi Hussin √ 57 Nagoya Section Section Chair Prof. Naohiro Hozumi √ 58 Nanjing Section Section Secretary Prof. Zhiwen Pan √ 59 New South Wales
Section Section Chair Dr Sasha Nikolic √ 60 New Zealand Central
Section Section Chair Dr Murray Milner √ 61 New Zealand North
Section Section Chair Prof Ho Seok Ahn √ 62 New Zealand South
Section Section Chair Dr Andrew Lapthorn √ 63 Northern Australia
Section Section Chair Dr Graham Woods √
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64 Pune Section Section Chair Mr. Dinanath Kholkar √ 65 Queensland Section Section Chair Dr Nilesh Modi √ 66 Republic of
Philippines Section Section Chair Dr Rhandley Cajote √ 67 Sapporo Section Secretary/Treasur
er Dr. Toshihiko Nishimura √ 68 Sendai Section
Section Executive Committee
member Prof Basabi Chakraborty √
69 Seoul Section Section Chair Prof. Chaewoo Lee √ 70 Shanghai Section Section Chair Prof. Wenjun Zhang √ 71 Shikoku Section Section Chair Prof. Kazuto Noguchi √ 72 Shin-etsu Section Section Secretary Prof. Minseok Kim √ 73 Singapore Section Section Chair Prof Arokiaswami Alphones √ 74 South Australia
Section Section Chair Dr Sharmil Randhawa √ 75 Sri Lanka Section Section Chair Prof Chandimal Jayawardena √ 76 Taegu Section Section Chair Prof Joon Goo Park √ 77 Tainan Section Section Secretary Prof. Chin-Lung Yang √ 78 Taipei Section Professional
Activity Chair Prof. Li-Pin Chang √ 79 Thailand Section Section Secretary Dr. Amorn Jiraseree-
amornkun √ 80 Tokyo Section Section Chair Dr. Hideyuki Tokuda √ 81 Uttar Pradesh
Section Section Chair Prof. Asheesh Kumar Singh √
82 Victorian Section Section chair Dr Alan Harvey √
83 Vietnam Section
Membership Development &
Student Activities Coordinator
Prof. Minh-Triet Tran Not
Attending
84 Western Australia Section Section Secretary Dr Farhad Shahnia √
85 Wuhan Section Section Secretary Prof. Guilin Zheng Not
Attending
86 Xian Section Standing Vice Chair Prof. Jingdong Chen √
87 Australia Council Council Chair Dr Stefan Mozar √ 88 China Council Vice Chair Prof. Chao Wang √ 89 India Council Council Secretary Mr Puneet Mishra √ 90 Japan Council Vice Chair Prof. Takahiko Saba √ 91 Korea Council Past Chair Prof. Hyeong Ho Lee √ 92 New Zealand Council Council Chair Prof Donald Bailey √
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Region 10 Section & Council - Secondary Delegates
93 Beijing Section Section Secretary & Treasurer Prof. Gaoyun An √
94 Busan Section Section
Professional Activities
Prof. Young-Bu Kim √ 95 Guangzhou Section Technical
Committee Chair Prof. Wing Ng Not
Attending
96 Harbin Section Section Vice Chair Prof. Qun Wu √ 97 Indonesia Section Section Secretary Ms. Agnes Irwanti √ 98 Malaysia Section Section Chair-Elect Dr. Md Pauzi Abdullah √ 99 New Zealand North
Section Section Vice Chair Mr Peter Over √ 100 Queensland Section Vice Chair Dr. Alexandra Posoldova √ 101 Queensland Section Section Treasurer Dr. Vaughan Clarkson √ 102 Queensland Section PES Chapter Chair Prof. Tapan Saha √ 103 Queensland Section Immediate Past
Chair Dr. Daniel Eghbal √ 104 Thailand Section Section Treasurer Dr. Somying Thainimit √ 105 Tokyo Section Section Vice Chair Dr. Masashi Usami √ 106 Victorian Section Vice chair Ms. Golnoosh Tajadod √ 107 Victorian Section Secretary Associate
Professor Elspeth McKay √ 108 Victorian Section CIS Chair Dr Alireza Jolfaei √ 109 Victorian Section Assistant Treasurer Ms. Nalika Dona √ 110 Victorian Section Treasurer Dr Mehrnaz Shoushtarian √ 111 Victorian Section Assistant Secretary Mrs Hongmei Yu √ 112 Western Australia
Section Vice Chair Mr Vijay Kumar √ 113 Japan Council Council Secretary Dr. Yasuhiro Takishima √ Region 10 Invited Subsection
Leadership Program” that is the new initiative to improve the quality of the
conferences organized in Sections of Region 10. To train volunteers who are
involved with Conference Organization in Sections so that they are able to
guide conferences and oversee the quality as per IEEE standards in their
respective Sections.
12. IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee member, Supavadee Aramvith and
Shaikh Fattah presented “HAC Missions & 2019 Funding Opportunities”. She
explained how HAC fits into the IEEE Strategic Plan 2015 – 2020, and HAC
Vision for 2019. HAC Strategic Goals, HAC Funding Opportunities, and Social
Return of Investment framework were also introduced.
13. President Elect Candidate 2020 Debates:
Moderator: Ramakrishna Kappagantu
Candidates: Dejan Milojicic, and Susan K. (Kathy) Land
Each candidate delivered the presentation. Then, Q&A session was held.
n Question 1
The current IEEE Strategic Plan 2015-2020 has specified Four Goals and Four
Key Initiatives supporting the goals. Given the opportunity to lead IEEE and
to develop the next IEEE Strategic Plan for 2020-2025, what should be the
goals and key initiatives?
n Question 2
How is Global Spec faring regarding purchase price relative to profitability?
n Question 3
Industry/Academic/Government/Collaboration/Partnership was one of the top
recommendations from Section Congress 2017. From your perspective as
IEEE Leader, what are the expected outcomes from this recommendation and
what will you do to achieve them?
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n Question 4
From the past 6 years or more IEEE BoD has been making several industrial
visits to various countries every year.
1) Are you aware of any follow up actions made by IEEE with these industries?
2) To what extent these visits had a tangible impact of IEEE growth.
3) To optimize the costs and time for these visits what is your plan?
n Question 5
R10 and possibly every region will set targets for Sections to achieve on
Membership retention. The limits set are pretty difficult to achieve for Sections
in R10, especially India and some other countries where student members
constitute 50-70% of membership. Once the students graduate, their
membership rates goes to almost 3 fold which is not affordable by most of
the young professionals in their early career years. Will you seriously consider
to introduce an intermediate tier of membership exclusively for young
professionals, at least for the first 3 years after they graduate with
membership fee equivalent to 1.5 to 2 times of student membership fee?
n Question 6
If we look at the membership within each region vis-a-vis their representation
on IEEE Board or Assembly, there appears significant disparity.
i) What do you think of the current Region and Division structures, and what
kind of possible revisions do you suggest?
ii) What are your thoughts on current IEEE Geo-alignment and TAB Divisions?
Iii) Do you suggest for 2 Directors in R8 and R10 since Computer Society has
2 Division Directors (V and VIII) on the IEEE Board?
n Question 7
"Way back IEEE used to provide IEEE magazines (Hard copies at discounted rates to Student Branches. This facility was the biggest motivation provided for students as well as the universities to continue IEEE membership until graduation. Somehow this practice has been discontinued for the last more than 5 years posing both the retention and recruitment problems. Do you have any strategic plan to resume this old practice or may be with some conditions or modifications to attract student community" n Question 8
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Some Technical Societies under promotional offers allow different discount structures regarding the membership dues, certification programs and corporate partnerships. For every paid membership in the Section, a rebate of 2, 3 or 5 USD is given back. But for the Society membership dues same is not made applicable. How do you plan to ensure uniformity in strategy applied across all OUs,
Societies /Councils and the main IEEE?
n Question 9
Did you support the IEEE Constitutional Amendment in 2016?
Do you feel to continue to pursue it again directly or indirectly?
n Question 10
What is your opinion about the current Open Access strategy? n Question 11
What are your ideas on how to address the issue of negative growth of IEEE members in US regions? How do you plan to increase membership growth in IEEE, especially from Industry? n Question 12
How do you plan to bring in more harmony in functioning of Society Chapters and Sections? How do you address the status of several sick student chapters and society chapters across IEEE? n Question 13
Could you please share your thoughts on IEEE Diversity? In your IEEE capacity, are there any initiatives or support that you have contributed to the young professionals, women and ensure fairness in regional representation? n Question 14
There have been a long wait, probably for many years to resolve the Section incorporation questions regarding Income Tax and Sales Tax. When can you likely resolve these issues, if elected? n Question 15
Some threats are foreseen from HQ to the reserves maintained by geo units. What measures would you take to overcome these fears to ensure that the surplus remain with geo-units only to care of their future sustenance? n Last Question
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If elected, will you visit this R10 AGM again as President-Elect and President?
14. The training workshop was held as two breakout sessions:
n Student Branch Empowerment, Huynh Thi Thanh Binh and Saaveethya
Sivakumar
R10 SAC Support to IEEE Student Branches Making SB Vibrant
There were more than 20 people attend this session. Huynh Thi Thanh Binh
(R10 SAC Chair 2019) introduced 2019 SAC activities. Two biggest issues of
SAC were also introduced: Inactive Student Branches, Membership drop after
graduation. Zia Ahmed (Vice Chair) analyzed the difficulties of SAC. It was
very useful interactive session. There are some opinions focused on:
- It was difficult for SB to get information from R10. Sometime, R10 sent
information to Section Chair, Chair of SB but they did not share information.
- It is also difficult to attract students to continue to join IEEE after graduation.
- Students form SB at their University but it will be inactive after the leader
or students are graduated from their University.
- R10 SAC 2019 try to propose some activities to overcome the issues.
- Prof Aki briefly stated the problems of inactive SB in the region and the need
for Section leaders to take appropriate step to resolve the situation. He also
emphasized for Section volunteers to work with R10 SAC to serve student
member needs.
- Delhi Section Chair raised the issue of information from R10 not reaching
Sections because of the use of zonal coordinators for sending out
announcements and other information. She requested for R10 SAC to include