LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 12 August 2024 – Voting for the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) approved slate of candidates for president-elect, vice president, and Board of Governors members, begins today, 12 August, and ends on Monday, 16 September 2024 at 12:00 PM EDT USA/16:00 UTC.
All eligible voters will receive an email message from sender ieee-computervote@ieee.org with voting instructions to access their online ballot information and voting link. Eligible members in all regions can access the voting link at the IEEE CS election site.
For replacement ballots or to request a paper ballot, call +1-732-562-3904 or email ieee-computervote@ieee.org.
Only IEEE CS members without an email address in their member record, or those who have opted out of IEEE email communications, will receive a paper ballot package. Those who receive paper ballots should return them by mail using the business reply envelope provided, or to IEEE Technical Activities, Attn: SGA, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA.
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Officers are elected to one-year terms and Board members to three-year terms, each beginning 1 January 2025. Candidate bios and position statements will be published in the August issue of Computer magazine, which is distributed to all IEEE CS members. Results will be announced in Computer magazine’s December issue and online.
All Candidates are in random order.
Candidates for 2025 President-Elect (2026 President)
Grace A. Lewis and Charles (Chuck) Hansen are on the ballot for 2025 president-elect and 2026 president. The president serves as the chief elected officer of the IEEE CS, representing the entire membership. Under the direction of the Board of Governors, the president provides direction for IEEE CS officers and Society programs and is responsible for the general supervision of the Society. The president serves one year as president-elect, one year as president, and one year as past president.
Grace Lewis is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) where she conducts applied research on how software engineering and software architecture principles, practices, and tools need to evolve in the face of emerging technologies. She is the principal investigator for the Automating Mismatch Detection and Testing in Machine Learning Systems project that is developing toolsets to support these two activities, in addition to other projects that are advancing the state of the practice in software engineering for machine learning (SE4ML). Grace is also the lead for the Tactical and AI-Enabled Systems (TAS) applied research and development team at SEI.
Charles (Chuck) Hansen is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Professor, Emeritus in the Kahlert School of Computing and a founding member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah. Chuck Hansen served on the Technical Committee for Visualization and Graphics (VGTC) Board from 1995-2002 and 2020-2023. He was on the IEEE Visualization Conference Steering Committee from 2001-2004 and initiated term limits during that time. He has co-Chaired IEEE Visualization 2000, was Program co-Chair for Visualization ’99 and served as a papers co-Chair for IEEE SciVis (then called IEEE Visualization) in 2007-2008. He co-Chaired IEEE LDAV in 2014. He was twice an Associate Editor in Chief (AEIC) of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
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Candidate for the 2025 Vice President
Nils Aschenbruck is a Full Professor for Computer Science at Osnabrueck University,
Germany. His research focus is on dependable and robust networked systems including
scenario modeling, traffic engineering, and network security. Dr. Aschenbruck has received over
35 external grants from both government funding agencies and industry. In total, his projects
have received over 6 million euros in external funding. He has published over 100 refereed
papers in international journals and conference proceedings.
Terry Benzel is an Associate Director of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. She leads research teams in cutting-edge research in network security, cyber experimentation methods, and the analysis of complex systems. Her research interests are in the science of cybersecurity experimentation and next-generation distributed experimentation methodologies. She is an IEEE Fellow, recognized for leadership in establishing the field of cybersecurity experimentation. She has a Masters Degree in Mathematics from Boston University and an Executive MBA from UCLA.
The Vice President acts for the President in the absence or incapacity of both the President and President-elect. The Vice President is a voting member of the Board of Governors and the Executive Committee. The Vice President assumes duties as assigned by the President and executes a portfolio as assigned by the President to
ensure achievement of objectives and attention to major issues and purposes. The Vice President provides counsel and assistance to the President and other volunteer leaders, as well as leadership and direction for officers and Society programs.
Candidates for 2025–2027 terms for the IEEE CS Board of Governors:
The Board of Governors is responsible for providing policy-level guidance to all organizational entities within the Computer Society. The Board sets directions and strategy for the Society, and reviews the performance of the program boards and other committees to assure compliance with its policy directions.
Members may vote for up to six for the Board of Governors position. All candidate names are in random order.
- Andrejs Romanovs
- Alfredo Goldman
- Yuhong Liu
- Ladan Tahvildari
- Daniel S. Katz
- Saptarshi Ghosh
- Shui Yu
- Alvin Chin
- Fernando Bouche
- Damla Turgut
- Jimmy Huang
- Ümit V. Çatalyürek
- Cyril Onwubiko
- Sven Dickinson
Voting Eligibility
All professional and graduate student IEEE CS members on record as of 1 June 2024 are eligible to vote in this year’s IEEE CS election. (Undergraduate student members do not hold voting rights.) All ballots must be returned no later than 12:00 p.m. EDT USA/16:00 UTC on Monday 16 September 2024.
About the IEEE Computer Society
Engaging computer engineers, scientists, academia, and industry professionals from all areas of computing, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) sets the standard for the education and engagement that fuels continued global technological advancement. Through conferences, publications, and programs, and by bringing together computer science and engineering leaders at every phase of their career for dialogue, debate, and collaboration, IEEE CS empowers, shapes, and guides the future of not only its members but the greater industry, enabling new opportunities to better serve our world. Visit computer.org for more information.
