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EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/521448

IEEE WIE AG Schenectady is going to organize WIE Distinguished Lecture (virtual webinar) on "Human System Engineering Initiatives: From Human Views to Human Readiness Levels" on 5 June 2026, Friday, 12-1 pm EDT. The speaker is Holly A. H. Handley, PhD, PE, the Interim Dean of the Interdisciplinary Schools and a Professor in the Engineering Management and System Engineering Department of Old Dominion University (ODU). This talk discusses the role of Human System Engineering within the System Engineering discipline. It describes two initiatives that are enabling better integration of humans and systems. The Human Views comprise a system architecture viewpoint that provides a perspective on the human roles, activities, and information flows required by a complex system. The Human Readiness Levels assess the degree to which human-focused requirements are incorporated into design decisions and the readiness of a system to interact with its human operator. Together these two efforts encourage System Engineering for the total system by supporting a comprehensive integration of the human component into the systems engineering effort, which is critical to the design, development, and operation of successful systems. Current standards and applications of both initiatives will be included. Speaker(s): Holly Handley Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/550987

Please Join the IEEE Seattle Section June EXCOM 7pm - 8:30 PM Seattle Section EXCOM ( Remote Zoom Only) 7PM - 8:30 PM EXCOM meeting 1) Approve the May 2026 meeting minutes 2) Treasure report, 3) Elections 4) Session Business. 5) Chapter, affinity Group, and Student Branch report. 6) Other Business. ***The Building Powerful AI Serverless Applications Workshop with AWS, IEEE New Era AI 2026 Workshop series Part B will be scheduled in one of the Saturday in June in person. IEEE Seattle EXCOM member free , pre- registered Part A free. Newly registered $10. I Co-sponsored by: Neha, Shiny, Mike, Anil, Sheree, Janet, Tanya, Dennis, Joe, Erik Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562328

A Panel Discussion by some of the co-editors and authors of Springer Nature Publishing's Women Engineering Legends 1952-1976 Speaker(s): Debra, Jan Agenda: Agenda - Introductions - Inspiration - Chapter Reviews - Summary - Conclusions - Give-Aways Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/554759

The IEEE Student Branch Chapter Communications and Vehicular Technology Societies of the University of Aveiro invites students, researchers, IEEE members, and professionals to a hybrid technical seminar with Professor Augusto Venâncio Neto on end-to-end slice lifecycle management for Telco-Cloud ecosystems. The event will take place in person at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and will also be available online for members and guests of the IEEE Seattle Section Joint Chapter, participating as our twin chapter. Organized in collaboration with the IEEE Communications Society Portugal Chapter and with the participation of the IEEE Seattle Section Joint Chapter, this session creates a transatlantic forum for discussing current challenges in network slicing, orchestration, 5G/6G, Open RAN, NFV/SDN, and distributed cloud-edge infrastructures. Taking place during Professor Neto’s visit to Europe, the session will include a 45-minute technical presentation followed by a 15-minute Q&A with the local and remote IEEE communities. This will be an opportunity to connect student members, chapter officers, researchers, and practitioners around emerging approaches for automated lifecycle management in future communication networks. Registration is mandatory for all in-person participants so that the organization can properly plan logistics and prepare the coffee break following the talk. Participants who intend to attend on-site are kindly asked to register in advance and update their registration if their availability changes (https://www.it.pt/) (https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/CH08445) (https://vtsociety.org/chapter/portugal-section-chapter) (https://ieee-seattle.org/chapters/) (https://ieee-sbc-comsoc-vts-ua.andreclerigo.com/) Co-sponsored by: Instituto de Telecomunicações Speaker(s): Augusto Neto Room: Amphitheatre, Bldg: 19, Instituto de Telecomunicações , Campus Universitário de Santiago , Aveiro, Centro, Portugal, 3810-193 , Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/563156

Please join us for a warm and engaging virtual event as we welcome Seattle chapter's new IEEE PES Women in Power Representative, Bosong Li. Bosong will host a collaborative conversation where we invite you to share the kinds of activities, topics, and opportunities you’d like to see from Seattle chapter’s IEEE PES Women in Power (WiP) community. This is a great chance to help shape future programs and ensure they reflect the interests and needs of our community. Your voice is valuable—and we’d love to hear your ideas. For more information about Women in Power, please visit their website (https://ieee-pes.org/about-pes/women-in-power/) and LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ieee-pes-women-in-power). We look forward to connecting with you on June 18th at 5:00 PM! Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/560803

Title: Twisted Signals for ISAC via OAM Vortex Beams Abstract: Electromagnetic waves are characterized by their amplitude, frequency, and state of polarization -- also referred to as spin angular momentum (SAM), associated with circular polarization and recognized for over two centuries. In contrast, over the past three decades, growing attention has been directed toward orbital angular momentum (OAM), which arises from helical (twisted) phase fronts and provides an additional degree of freedom through its orthogonal modal structure. In this talk, we explore the use of OAM for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), with the goal of enhancing spectral efficiency and spatial resolution in automotive scenarios. Unlike conventional uniform circular array (UCA)-based implementations, our approach employs a uniform linear array (ULA) with traveling-wave antennas to synthesize multiple Laguerre-Gaussian vortex beams. The proposed system embeds communication data within radar waveforms while enabling joint estimation of target position and velocity using radar-only frames. An OAM-based mode-division multiplexing strategy is used to separate sensing and communication functionalities, ensuring reliable parameter recovery. We conclude with perspectives on the future of ISAC systems. Speaker: Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra [] 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; 2026 BEL Endowed Visiting Chair Professor in Radar Systems at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Technical Adviser to Singapore-based automotive radar start-up Hertzwell; 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 (DL) of various societies: IEEE Communications Society (2023-2024), IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) (2023-2024, 2025-2026), IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2023-2025, 2025-2027), and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (2024-2025). He has been a Virtual DL of IEEE Future Networks Initiative (2022) and Traveling Lecturer of Optica (2025-). He is the recipient of the IEEE AESS Harry Rowe Mimno Award (2026), SAE International Award for Excellence in Innovation (2025), IEEE Signal Processing Society Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award (2024), Special Mention for the IEEE AESS M. Barry Carlton Award (2023), IET Premium Best Paper Prize (2021), IEEE T-AES Outstanding Editor (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025), U. S. National Academies Harry Diamond Distinguished Fellowship (2018-2021), American Geophysical Union Editors' Citation for Excellence (2019), Royal Meteorological Society Quarterly Journal Editor's Prize (2017), Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015, 2016), Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017), DRDO LRDE Scientist of the Year Award (2006), NITH Director’s Gold Medal (2003), and NITH Best Student Award (2003). He has received Best Paper Awards at IEEE MLSP 2019 and IEEE ACES Symposium 2019. Dr. Mishra is Chair (2023-2026) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission C, Chair (2025-) of IEEE AESS Technical Working Group on Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC-TWG), and Vice-Chair (2021-present) of the IEEE Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee, which is the first SPS standards committee. He has been Chair (2023-2025) of the IEEE SPS Synthetic Apertures Technical Working Group. He has been an elected member of three technical committees of IEEE SPS: SPCOM, SAM, and ASPS, and IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel. He is Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of River Rapids Series in Radar Systems, Signal Processing, Antennas and Electromagnetics (2025-), Editor (Deputy EiC) of Radio Science (2025-), Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2024-), and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (2020-) and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2023-). He has been a lead/guest editor of several special issues in journals such as IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. He is the lead co-editor of several books on signal processing and radar: Signal Processing for Joint Radar-Communications (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2024), Next-Generation Cognitive Radar Systems (IET Press Electromagnetics and Radar Series, 2023), Advances in Weather Radar Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (IET Press Electromagnetics and Radar Series, 2023), and Handbook of Statistics 54: Multidimensional Signal Processing (Elsevier). His research interests include radar systems, signal processing, remote sensing, and electromagnetics. Location and Parking: Bellevue City Hall. - There is complimentary parking in the City Hall visitor parking lot on 110th Ave NE. - Vehicles will be towed if they park in the reserved spots for King County Metro (KCM) and Sound Transit - Parking is extremely limited in the visitor lot and it quickly fills up. - Overflow parking is available in the P3 staff garage starting at 4:00 p.m. on weekdays. - On busy evenings, we recommend attendees save time by driving directly to the P3 staff garage - Navigate to (https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaps.app.goo.gl%2FvqowPSi9mf8tKRL86&data=05%7C02%7Cabrahash%40seattleu.edu%7C8f21a7d1238d474340ca08debc577ce7%7Cbc10e052b01c48499967ee7ec74fc9d8%7C0%7C0%7C639155281116980624%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zvkugTz1hbdFpxbOrs%2Fr88UtHUKT6HxrErBqHcxXmWY%3D&reserved=0) - Enter and park on level P3 - There is a door in the garage that takes you to the concourse elevator - There is no charge for parking in both the visitor lot and the P3 staff garage. - We recommend keeping the parking gate ticket in the vehicle as it is needed to leave. Room: 1E-121, Bellevue City Hall, 450 110th Ave. NE, Bellevue, Washington, United States, 98004, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562308

New and mid-level professionals will benefit from this presentation on the journey of engineers from an experienced engineer and recruiter at the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), Sally McGehee. Organization and industry leaders are invited to gain Ms McGehee's insider strategies on how to engage with the Department of Navy (DON) as well. Celebrate International Women in Engineering Day 2026 with San Diego IEEE and Sally McGehee, through her authentic stories and examples on the opportunities within the DON especially for women. This session will engage all the participants through Ms. McGehee's insider insight as an engineer, as well as her recruiter role with the NIWC Pacific New Professional program, where she interviews EE, CS, ME, CE students and graduates and visits select university career fairs across the country to recruit engineering students. Speaker(s): Sally, Agenda: Introduction Sally MceGhee, PEO C4I Director of Science and Technology (S&T) Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific & NIWC New Professional program Celebrate Women in Engineering Day, June 23, 2026 Speaker presentation, "Journey of Engineers in Department of Defense" Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/558680

Abstract: The rapid expansion and increasing complexity of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations demands new digital twins for accurate predictive network performance evaluation. Modern LEO networks feature highly dynamic topologies, dense satellite deployments, and integration with terrestrial 5G/6G systems — that well-exceed current open-source/broadly available simulation tool capabilities. A high-fidelity Digital Twin model should capture real-time mobility considerations for time-varying LEO-to-earth downlink, emerging regulatory considerations (e.g. spectrum allocation driven coexistence/interference), orbit-aware inter-satellite coordination aspects, to feed into future AI-driven resource optimization architectural solutions. This talk will start by pointing out deficiencies in current 3GPP TR 38.111 and 6G-NTN EU Doppler spread models and its consequent impact downstream on NTN Downlink PHY Layer 1 processing and highlight ongoing efforts via ns-3-leo full stack network simulator at UW Fundamentals of Networking Lab (https://wp.ece.uw.edu/funlab/). Speaker: [] Prof. Sumit Roy Guest Scientist, Nokia Bell Labs (Radio Systems Research) sumit.1.roy@nokia.com Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Eng U. Washington, Seattle sroy@uw.edu Sumit Roy (Fellow IEEE) received the B. Tech. (EE) degree from the IIT Kanpur in 1983, and M. S. (1985) and Ph. D. (1988) degrees from the University of California (Santa Barbara) in Electrical & Comp. Engineering as well as an M. A. in Statistics and Applied Probability (1988). He has been a faculty member in Electrical & Computer Engineering (UW) since 1998 where he was appointed to a Distinguished Term Professorship for Integrated Systems (2014-19) in recognition of his scholarly accomplishments. He continues to direct the Fundamentals of Networking Laboratory (FUNLaB) https://wp.ece.uw.edu/funlab/, the long-standing maintainer/manager of the Open Source network simulator ns-3 project (www.nsnam.org), recognized via the ACM SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award 2020 for ``development of a networking system that has had a significant impact on the world of computer networking” https://www.sigcomm.org/content/sigcomm-networking-systems-award. His expertise spans analysis/design and prototyping of future wireless communication systems/networks: next-Gen wireless LANs, 5G New Radio and beyond 5G/6G standards, with an emphasis on terrestrial and airborne (vehicular) applications, multi-standard inter-networking/coexistence and dynamic spectrum access solutions for spectrum sharing. He spent 2001-03 on academic leave at Intel Wireless Technology Lab as a Senior Researcher/Standards Architect engaged in systems architecture and standards development for ultra-wideband systems (Wireless PANs) and next generation high-speed wireless LANs (802.11n). He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2007 for “contributions to multi-user communications theory and cross-layer design of wireless networking standards”. He served as Program Lead for Innovate Beyond 5G, the R&D component of OUSD R&E’s 5G-to-xG Initiative (2020-22) , where managed a RD&P portfolio focused on dual-use of commercial (5G) technologies for Federal use cases and oversaw 3GPP contributions. He is currently Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Future Networks Technical Community (https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/) and IEEE Comm. Society (https://www.comsoc.org/engagement-community/distinguished-lecturers) and serves as Assoc. E-i-C for IEEE Comm. Standards Magazine (https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-communications-standards-magazine/editorial-board). Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/561632

As emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and large-scale digital platforms become increasingly integrated into society, the need for responsible technology governance has never been greater. This educational session introduces participants to the DIITA Principles (IEEE Standards Association Industry Connections Program), a human- and planet-centered approach to guiding the design, deployment, and oversight of technology in an era of rapid innovation. Through an accessible exploration of governance, ethics, sustainability, transparency, and accountability, attendees will examine how technological decisions can create lasting impacts on individuals, communities, institutions, and the environment. The session highlights the importance of aligning innovation with broader societal goals, including long-term human well-being, environmental stewardship, and sustainable development. Drawing on real-world examples from AI, digital transformation, and emerging technologies, participants will gain insights into the DIITA Principles and their role in promoting responsible technology governance. The discussion will examine how these principles can help align innovation with human values, environmental sustainability, and long-term societal resilience. Participants will also explore how the DIITA Principles can provide a common framework for collaboration among technologists, policymakers, researchers, educators, and industry leaders working toward human and planetary flourishing. Designed for engineers, technology professionals, students, and decision-makers, this educational program aims to raise awareness of the critical role governance plays in shaping technology that not only advances innovation but also contributes to a more sustainable, equitable, and flourishing future for both humanity and the planet. Event Link: Learning Responsible Technology Governance: Insights from DIITA Principles Friday, June 26 · 10:00 – 11:00am Time zone: America/Los_Angeles Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/msp-ckde-jku Or dial: ‪(US) +1 352-612-0360‬ PIN: ‪759 341 055‬# More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/msp-ckde-jku?pin=5804341574795 Speaker(s): Anuraga Prasanna Mandaleeka Agenda: Topics covered: - Introduction of speaker - Introduction of topic - Describe the core concepts and principles of DIITA - Analyze the societal, ethical, and environmental impacts of technological innovation - Identify opportunities to apply DIITA Principles in practice - Q&A Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/564197