The IEEE Board of Directors seeks to shape the future direction of IEEE and ensure that IEEE remains a strong, vibrant organization that serves the needs of its members and the global engineering and technology community, while fulfilling IEEE's mission to advance technology for the benefit of: I'm doing my best. humanity.
This article features IEEE Board of Directors members Deepak Mathur, Saifur Rahman, and Aylin Yener.
IEEE Senior Member Deepak Mathur
Vice President, Members and Regional Activities
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Mathur has nearly 40 years of professional experience working in hydrocarbon exploration and development across India's leading public sector oil and gas companies in the electronics and communications sectors. Most recently, while serving as Chief General Manager, he successfully led a multi-disciplinary team through significant IT and communications projects. These include supervisory control and data collection, online and real-time monitoring systems, WiMax-based broadband wireless access systems, and GPS/GSM-based vehicle tracking systems. Mathur also has experience managing and working on state-of-the-art well logging systems that characterize the subsurface to explore hydrocarbon potential.
Mathur has served in many IEEE leadership roles at regional, section, conference, and global levels. A member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, and IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, he is a Director of IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific), a Board Member of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (2013-2015), and the IEEE India Council. He served as Chairman (2015-2016). In his current role at IEEE Member and Geographic Activities, Mathur focuses on supporting IEEE members and developing IEEE member recruitment and retention strategies.
Mathur is a member of the honorary society IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu. Through his activities in IEEE, he has received several prestigious awards including Region 10 Outstanding Volunteer Award, MGA Merit Award, and Indian Congress Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mathur is currently a Professor of Practice and Member of the Academic Council at Marwadi University, Rajkot, India.
IEEE Life Fellow Saifur Rahman
2023 IEEE President
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Rahman is the founding director of Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Institute and Center for Energy and the Global Environment, where he researches renewable energy, sensor integration, smart grids, and smart cities. His research promotes cleantech solutions for climate sustainability, and his six solutions for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector are being implemented to varying degrees in more than 100 countries.
A prolific lecturer, Rahman has given more than 850 conference presentations and invited talks in more than 30 countries. His visionary and innovative leadership approach and strategies have earned him global recognition. In 2020, he spoke at five different webinars in five countries on four continents in one day.
As IEEE President for 2023, his key priorities will be to position the organization as a force for change and make it more relevant to technology professionals around the world. Rahman believes that IEEE, as the world's largest organization of technical experts, has both an opportunity and a responsibility to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impacts and adapt. His forward-thinking strategy led to the creation of the IEEE Climate Change website and helped foster dialogue on sustainable energy policies and practices by fostering collaboration between technology and engineering professionals, policymakers, and other organizations. Previously, Rahman served as Vice President of IEEE Publishing Services and Products (2006) and President of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (2018 and 2019).
Rahman has published over 160 journal articles that have been cited over 20,000 times. He is the founding editor of .
IEEE Electrification Magazine and IEEE Sustainable Energy Transactions. He has also received several IEEE honors, including the Power and Energy Society Service Award, the PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, the Technical Activities Committee Hall of Fame, and the IEEE Millennium Medal.
IEEE Fellow Aylin Yener
Director, Division IX
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Yener, an endowed professor in the Ohio State University College of Engineering, aims to connect the universe and everyone and everything in it by designing systems that ensure safe and reliable transmission of information in a sustainable way. Her work in the fields of communications, information theory, and artificial intelligence covers a wide range of system design topics, from network optimization to security and privacy of information to robust and secure machine learning algorithms in network settings.
Yener's special interests include next-generation wireless communications and how to create an energy-neutral digital society. She also works to ensure digital connectivity for underserved populations and create fair and private AI algorithms to aid human ingenuity.
Yener has been an active IEEE volunteer for over 20 years with experience in membership, finance, publications, conferences, and outreach. She served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society (2020) and is an active member of the IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE Communications, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Societies. As Director of Division IX, she advocates for deeper collaboration between societies by sharing best practices and fostering cross-pollination of ideas.
Yener has been a distinguished lecturer at IEEE and is currently its Editor-in-Chief. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. She has delivered over 60 technical keynotes and invited lectures over the past 10 years. Yener seeks to have a broader educational impact, co-founding the IEEE North American School of Information Theory, which provides graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with opportunities to learn from leading experts. Yener's IEEE recognitions include the Marconi Prize Paper Award, the Communication Theory Technical Achievement Award, and the Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Science Academy of Turkey.