Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) implement Machine Learning (ML) algorithms that can address competitive resource allocation problems together with detection and mitigation of anomalous behavior. In this talk, we discuss their use in next-generation (NextG) communications within the context of cognitive networks to address i) spectrum sharing, ii) detecting anomalies, and iii) mitigating security attacks. GANs have the following advantages. First, they can learn and synthesize field data, which can be costly, time consuming, and non-repeatable. Second, they enable pre-training classifiers by using semi-supervised data. Third, they facilitate increased resolution. Fourth, they enable recovering corrupted bits in the spectrum. The talk will provide basics of GANs, a comparative discussion on different kinds of GANs, performance measures for GANs in computer vision and image processing as well as wireless applications, several datasets for wireless applications, performance measures for general classifiers, a survey of the literature on GANs for i)–iii) above, some simulation results, and future research directions. In the spectrum sharing problem, connections to cognitive wireless networks are established. Simulation results show that a particular GAN implementation is better than a convolutional auto encoder for an outlier detection problem in spectrum sensing. Speaker(s): Ender Ayanoglu, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/466461

As part of our program efforts to provide more social opportunities for ALL EECE students to gather as a group, we are happy to announce the 3rd Annual EECE Spring BBQ! This will be your chance to mingle and celebrate the end of the school year. All food and drinks will be provided for free courtesy of the EECE faculty. Grilled burgers and hot dogs will be the main dish. There will also be grilled vegan and gluten-free options provided, as well as a variety of sides and both sweetened and unsweetened drinks. Location Lake Padden East Playground Picnic Shelter The shelter has seating for 50 and is covered, but keep in mind there will be over 200 people invited (and likely at least 100 attending), so if the weather is sunny or rainy, be prepared with sunblock or a jacket/umbrella. Time Friday June 6, 5:00 to 7:00 The barbecue will open at 5:00 and close at 7:00. You are free to come and go as you please, but keep in mind that grilled food will be served starting at 5:00. There is a limit to how fast we can cook food. This year, we will try to have about 50 burgers and dogs ready to go right at 5:00, but there are no guarantees of meat if you show up very late. 4882 Samish Way, Bellingham, Washington, United States

Dear Seattle Section Life and Senior Members, Many thanks to Joe Decuir for hosting the first 2025 Life and Senior Members gathering at his beautiful lakeside home in Redmond. We warmly invite you to join us for an enjoyable time of networking, great conversation, and delicious food! Resurrection meeting time and place: - Monday June 9th, 2025, 7-8:30pm - In person: (https://www.google.com/maps/search/18814+SE+42?entry=gmail&source=g)nd St, Issaquah, WA 98027 - On Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/2366026940?omn=93231791978, Meeting ID: 236 602 6940 The Seattle Section had a Life Member Activities Group before. Last year we had a petition approve to re-start it. Joe Decuir is the interim chair: jdecuir@ieee.org. Proposed mission: Life Members and Senior members have had a chance to work, contribute and accumulate engineering wisdom. We should collect that wisdom, and pay it forward to the Young Professionals and the student members. Resurrection meeting proposed agenda: - Discuss our mission - Discuss how we want to assemble and distribute our work - Identify volunteer leaders – and conduct elections later this year - Plan a Kickoff meeting: where and when? please RSVP so Joe know how much food to have. Also, if you have dietary restrictions, Please let Joe know. Joe Decuir, IEEE Fellow E: jdecuir@ieee.org or jdecuir@uw.edu M: 425-985-1562 Co-sponsored by: IEEE Seattle Life member affinity Group Agenda: Resurrection meeting proposed agenda: - Discuss our mission - Discuss how we want to assemble and distribute our work - Identify volunteer leaders – and conduct elections later this year - Plan a Kickoff meeting: where and when? 18814 SE 42nd St,, WA 98027, Issaquah, Washington, United States, 98027, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/486591

Please note the Location change to Bannan Engineering Building 201, Seattle University , Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 Please join us for an inspiring talk on one of the most promising technologies for controlling, shaping, and monitoring electromagnetic waves — Reconfigurable Surfaces for Radar and Communications Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra is ieee AESS distinguished speaker, Title: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Radar and Communications Abstract: In recent years, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have shown promising abilities to control and manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves through modified surface boundary conditions. These surfaces are electrically thin and comprise an array of spatially varying sub-wavelength scattering elements (or meta-atoms). Through careful engineering of each meta-atom, RISs can transform an incident EM wave into an arbitrarily tailored transmitted or reflected wavefront. RISs are being considered for future generation wireless systems and are already rapidly enabling novel applications in sensing and communications such as non-line-of-sight coverage, index modulation, polarization modulation, and adaptable patterns. This talk will explore applications of RISs to radar, wireless communications, and joint radar-communications. Toward the end, we will touch upon deep learning-based techniques for RIS inverse design. Co-sponsored by: Aritra Gosh Speaker(s): Dr Mishra, Agenda: June 10th ,2025 5:30 pm event start, food and social 5: 45 to 6: 45 pm, speech by Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra 7: 00 to 8:30 pm. EXCOM Room: 201, Bldg: Jun 10th is Bannan Engineering Building 201 , Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487708

Free Registration (with a Zoom account; you can get one for free if you don't already have it. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account — not necessarily the one you used to register for the event.): https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/vo5r9OqaSFuqKsuFcww7Cg Synopsis: AR/VR devices promise a new era of immersive computing, where our everyday experience is augmented with helpful information (Augmented Reality), or where we are immersed in fully virtual worlds (Virtual Reality). These systems fuse the physical world and the virtual world through computing resources to provide these immersive experiences rendered on the user's headset. As a result, it allows new opportunities for attackers to compromise the security and privacy of users that are not well understood. Towards understanding the security and privacy challenges in these systems, this talk presents a number of recent attacks we developed on AR/VR systems. One threat model exploits the shared computing resources used by multiple applications on a headset to extract information through side channels; we show attacks that spy on user activity or compromise privacy. Another threat model exploits the shared state among multiple users in a multi-user application, allowing malicious users to inject compromised information or to recover information they are not allowed to access. Other threat models include those that interfere with applications and cause the virtual model to become out of sync with the physical world, causing user motion sickness or bypassing safety guardrails. I will conclude with a discussion of potential defenses and ways to build more secure AR/VR experiences. --------------------------------------------------------------- By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU Speaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/485364

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming EXCOM meeting on June 10th, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. at 5: 30pm. We start with networking and an inspiring speech. Please join the inspiring speech on one of the most promising technology for control , shaping and monitor through this Reconfigure surfaces for Radar and Communications. Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra Is ieee AESS distinguished speaker, Title: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Radar and Communications Abstract: In recent years, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have shown promising abilities to control and manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves through modified surface boundary conditions. These surfaces are electrically thin and comprise an array of spatially varying sub-wavelength scattering elements (or meta-atoms). Through careful engineering of each meta-atom, RISs can transform an incident EM wave into an arbitrarily tailored transmitted or reflected wavefront. RISs are being considered for future generation wireless systems and are already rapidly enabling novel applications in sensing and communications such as non-line-of-sight coverage, index modulation, polarization modulation, and adaptable patterns. This talk will explore applications of RISs to radar, wireless communications, and joint radar-communications. Toward the end, we will touch upon deep learning-based techniques for RIS inverse design. Kumar Vijay Mishra (S’08-M’15-SM’18) obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and M.S. in mathematics from The University of Iowa in 2015, and M.S. in electrical engineering from Colorado State University in 2012, while working on NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission Ground Validation (GPM-GV) weather radars. He received his B. Tech. summa cum laude (Gold Medal, Honors) in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (NITH), India in 2003. He is a Senior Fellow at the United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory; Research Scientist at the Institute for Systems Research, The University of Maryland, College Park under the ARL-ArtIAMAS program; Technical Adviser to Singapore-based automotive radar start-up Hertzwell and Boston-based imaging radar startup Aura Intelligent Systems; and honorary Research Fellow at SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. Previously, he had research appointments at the Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Bengaluru; IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, Iowa City, IA; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA; Qualcomm, San Jose; and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Mishra has served as the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society (2023-2024), IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) (2023-2024, 2025-2026), IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2023-2025, 2025-2027), IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (2024-2025), and IEEE Future Networks Initiative …… Co-sponsored by: ashishvaidya@ieee.org, aritraghosh@ieee.org Agenda: June 10th. 2025 5:30pm- 6:45pm speech by Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra 7pm-8:45 pm. EXCOM . Approve of meeting minutes Election IEEE NEW ERA AI world leaders SUMMIT, Unit Satellite , Humanity and the Smart World. Charter Report Student Activity Room: 201, Bldg: Bannan Engineering Building, Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487711

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers ***CANCELED*** Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/452312

Hey everyone! IEEE Bothell is hosting a Senior Send-Off to celebrate our graduating seniors with a fun evening full of food, games, and music! Location: Log Boom Park, Kenmore, WA Date: Friday, June 13th Time: 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM It’s a potluck, so feel free to bring a dish to share! We’ll have games, music, good vibes, and a chance to say goodbye to our amazing seniors. Sign up for food and games here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Pt5svOcBubLa5W66HzYnxSA7Uqco_GcpFyz6HLia9U/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Come hang out, celebrate, and make some great memories before summer! Anyone is welcome!! Co-hosted with UWB ASME and TrickFire Robotics! 17415 61st Ave NE, Kenmore, Washington, United States, 98028

Please join Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, Chief 5G Strategist , founding Co-Chair for the IEEE Future Networks , speech on 5G Security and AI/ML – Opportunities and Challenges. Bio: Ashutosh Dutta, Chief 5G Strategist and Director of Doctor of Engineering Program, Johns Hopkins University Ashutosh brings in a unique blend of industry and academic experience. He is currently Chief 5G Strategist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs and serves as associate research professor and the director of Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University in addition to his teaching. His past career spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. Ashutosh has published more than 110 papers, IEEE-Wiley book on Handoff Optimization, 6 book chapters and has 31 issued patents. As a Technical Leader in 5G, Ashutosh has served as the founding Co-Chair for the IEEE Future Networks (https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/), IEEE Connecting The Unconnected ((http://ctu.ieee.org/)) and IEEE 5G/6G Innovation Testbed ((http://testbed.ieee.org/)). Ashutosh served as IEEE Communications Society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020. He has served in IEEE Communications Society’s director of Industry Outreach Board (2014-2019) and has been serving as Member-At-Large (2020-2025). He initiated and organized more than 90 5G Summits around the world ((http://www.5gsummit.org/)) and has served as founding Co-Chair of IEEE Future Networks World Forum (https://fnwf2025.ieee.org/) since 2018. Ashutosh has served as Workshop Co-Chair in ICC and Industry Forum and Exhibits Co-Chair in Globecom. His most notable awards include, 2022 North American Region Exceptional Service Award, 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award, 2022 IEEE-USA George F. McClure Citation of Honor, and IPv6 Hall of Fame in 2024. Ashutosh is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT Rourkela with BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a Fellow of IEEE, Distinguished member of ACM, Fellow of AAIA, and Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. Ashutosh is currently a candidate for IEEE Communication Society's VP of Conferences. Abstract: Next generation cellular networks such as 5G and 6G promise to support emerging applications such as enhanced mobile broadband, mission critical applications for the first responder, remote surgery, and industrial IOT among others. While Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking open up the door for programmable networks and rapid service creation, these also offer both security opportunities, and introduces additional challenges and complexities. The talk focuses on various security challenges and opportunities introduced by 5G enablers such as Hypervisor, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), SDN controller, orchestrator, network slicing, cloud RAN, edge cloud, and virtual security function. This talk introduces threat taxonomy for 5G security from an end-to-end system perspective including, interfaces, protocols, potential threats introduced by these enablers, and associated mitigation techniques. Additionally, this talk highlights how AI/ML can help enhance security features of these networks and elaborates some adverse effects of AI/ML. Finally, the talk introduces some of the ongoing activities within various standards communities including open source consortiums, large scale NSF testbeds, and illustrates a few deployment use case scenarios. Speaker(s): Ashutosh, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487714

Generic Large Language Models (GLLMs) are continually being released with increased size and capabilities, enhancing the capabilities of these tools as universal problem solvers. While the reliability of GLLMs' responses is questionable in many situations, these models are often augmented or retrofitted with external resources for various applications, including cybersecurity. The talk will discuss major security concerns of these pre-trained models: first, GLLMs are prone to adversarial manipulation, such as model poisoning, reverse engineering, and side-channel cyberattacks. Second, the security issues related to LLM-generated codes using open-source libraries/codelets for software development can involve software supply chain attacks. These may result in information disclosure, access to restricted resources, privilege escalation, and complete system takeover. This talk will also cover the benefits and risks of using GLLMs in cybersecurity, particularly in malware detection, log analysis, intrusion detection, etc. I will highlight the need for diverse AI approaches (non-LLM-based smaller models) trained with application-specific curated data, fine-tuned for well-tested security functionalities in identifying and mitigating emerging cyber threats, including zero-day attacks. Note: - You will require a Zoom account (free to obtain) to join the meeting. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account, not necessarily the one you used to register for the event. Register here: https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/2XuaGc9ISoCWOu1dt6ANog - By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU Speaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, IEEE Fellow, NAI Fellow, AIIA Fellow Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/489327