[] Dr. Baek-Young Choi is an internationally leading scholar in the Internet of Things, 5G and beyond, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. Dr. Choi's innovative research has led to numerous Best Paper, Best Poster, and Best Video awards, as well as recognition as conferences’ keynote speaker, Distinguished Lecturer, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the flagship magazine of the IEEE Society. She has served in many international leadership roles in her technical society, including Chair of IEEE Women in Communications Engineering, Chair of Sister societies, and a technical oversight committee of flagship conferences in IEEE, general chair, and technical program committee chair for multiple international conferences and workshops. Speaker(s): Baek-Young Choi, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456310

[] Mr Eamon J Wall, Esq began his career as an Engineer and enjoyed the field so much, he decided to make important contributions by becoming a Patent Attorney, helping many individuals and companies to create significant value with technology innovations. Mr Wall is dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, serving the community in many important projects and programs. Speaker(s): Eamon J Wall, Esq Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456313

Dr Rui Li of will take a deep dive into the Multimodal Interaction and Affective Computing Lab (MIAC Lab) at Montclair State with a focus on Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction. This exciting work involves multimodal information processing, immersive interaction, intelligent systems for vehicles and robots. Her passion is for the interdisciplinary study of human emotion, behavior, and cognition to bring about excellent human-machine interaction and intelligent machines. Speaker(s): Dr. Rui Li PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456316

This month's ExCom will include an NCSU student presentation on the Open Project Space workshop series by Willard Sheets and Grayson Morris. We will serve pizza onsite. Please register to choose preferred pizza type. Everyone is welcome to come help us to grow and fulfill the new 2025 plan and events. IEEE EXCOM Committee, All section officers, and the chairs of the chapters, affinities, committees and subsection are expected to attend. Other interested members and guests are welcome. Advance registration is preferred, especially for food orders. The Wednesday, February 12, 2025 ExCom Meeting will be held in-person at NCSU and virtually through the ENCS reusable Webex Room Link. NCSU Engineering Building 2 890 Oval Dr Raleigh, North Carolina Building: EB2 Room Number: 3001 https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/meet/WX3ENCieee.org Meeting Schedule: See agenda 6:30 PM Set up room and food 7:00 PM Agenda 8:30 PM Adjourn We look forward to seeing you. Here is a useful link for the MGA operations manual: https://mga.ieee.org/images/files/Current_MGA_Operations_Manual_2024__13_December.pdf Agenda: Agenda: Slide Deck: (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/146KyWHhXegBJ1sTp-YKl3IR4hpoUhBSp/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115178429701450254380&rtpof=true&sd=true) IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Executive Committee Meeting Agenda for Wednesday, 2/12/2025 6:30 pm Setup Pizza and room 7:00 - 7:15 Check-in and Introductions - All 7:15 - 7:20 Confirm Quorum – Secretary (Quorum = more than 1/2 of voting positions) Review/Adjust/Approve Agenda – Chair/Vice Chair 7:20 - 7:25 Welcome Remarks - Chair/Vice Chair 7:25 – 7:30 Confirmation and Approval of the Previous Meeting Minutes – Secretary (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hK-pEPt1hHdAI-vLp2MO4xED1iXRG5f0f7qFBgR0x60/edit?usp=sharing) 7:30 – 7:35 Action Items from the Previous Meeting – Secretary 7:35 – 7:45 Treasurer Report - Treasurer (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jvb8rcT9mWu16RvZ0JeOqyOQrK2xixGw/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115178429701450254380&rtpof=true&sd=true) 7:45 – 7:50 New Volunteers Consideration and Approval - Chair 7:50 – 8:10 Chapters/Affinity Groups/Committee Chairs Reports – Chairs Awards and Recognitions Chair: Abhinav Aggarwal Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Chair: Sweetha Chinta Computer Society Chair/Vice: H. Moradi, L. Kittusamy – New Leaders Consultant's Network Affinity Group Chair: Guru Prasad Selvarajan Industrial Electronics Society Chair: Skieler Capezza Life Member Affinity Group Chair: Clay Cranford NCSU Chapter Chair: Mario Nava Nominations & Appointments Chair Abhinav Aggarwal Power Electronics Society (PELS) Chair/Vice: M. Madhu, L. Cheng Robotics & Automation Soc (RAS) Chair/Vice: A. Matthew, F. Livingston Section Student Representative (SSR): Aniketh Shenoy Student Activities Chair (SAC): Sneha Narasimhan Technology & Engineering Management Society (TEMS): Megha Ben Major achievements in 2024 Women in Engineering Affinity Group Chair/Vice: E. Klopf, P. Ramos Young Professionals Affinity Group: Prakhar Lohiya 8:15 – 8:45 Open Project Space workshop series by Willard Sheets and Grayson Morris 8:45 – 8:55 Other Business 8:55 – 9:00 Concluding Remarks and Closing – Chair/Vice Chair Room: 3001, Bldg: EB2, NCSU Engineering Building 2, 890 Oval Dr, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, 27695, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/464559

[] Dr Chin is currently a Research Scientist at Discovery Partners Institute, part of the University of Illinois System. He is working on research in mobile social networking, IoT, responsible AI, human-centered AI, and data science. His research interests are in data science, machine learning, IoT, big data, social networking, HCI, ubiquitous computing, web and AI. Speaker(s): Dr. Alvin Chin, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456323

[] 2025 IEEE ENCS Engineers Week Social Event Saturday, Feb 22 All Eastern North Carolina members and their guests are invited to attend. Advance registration is preferred. Sooner is better for planning food and seating. PLEASE COME JOIN US AND LET'S CELEBRATE E-WEEK! WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU!!!! Dinner Schedule: 6:00 PM Seating (large table in back of Mez) 6:30 PM Order Meal off menu with a non-alcoholic drink, beer or glass of wine This is an in-person event at Mez Restaurant in Durham, NC. Advance registration preferred so that your participation can count toward ordering Food and Regional attendance. Mez Restaurant onsite Contact: Stephanie Group Name to Request upon entering: IEEE Engineer's Week Agenda: IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Engineers Week Social 6:00 PM Greeting and Seating 6:30 PM Meal and Socializing Room: In the back of the restaurant, Mez Contemporary Mexican Restaurant, 5410 Page Road, Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27703

[] Dr Kootsookos, IEEE Connecticut Section Chair. Dr Kootsookos will describe his career preparation. He will conduct a deep dive of his field as an expert in patent arbitration providing source code reviews. He is a teacher of telecommunications, signal & image processing, circuit analysis, digital hardware, and various software engineering courses at the University of New Haven, Fairfield University, Central Connecticut State University, and CT State Community College, Middlesex in the US and the Australian National University and University of Queensland in Australia. He is a Researcher: Signal processing research: more than 40 papers in conferences and international journals in signal, video, and image processing; Full life-cycle systems engineering: requirements, analysis, design, verification, validation, delivery; Quality processes worked with: IS09001-2000, CMMI, ACE (UTC’s Achieving Competitive Excellence). Note: PDH / CEU is not being offered for the Spring 2025 sessions. Speaker(s): Dr. Peter James Kootsookos, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456326