Week of Events
Sunday, June 14, 2026
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Monday, June 15, 2026
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June 15, 2026 -Women Engineering Legends: A Pioneering Legacy
Women Engineering Legends: A Pioneering Legacy
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
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026 -IEEE Distinguished Lecture: E2E Slice Lifecycle Management for Telco-Cloud Ecosystems
IEEE Distinguished Lecture: E2E Slice Lifecycle Management for Telco-Cloud Ecosystems
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
Thursday, June 18, 2026
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June 18, 2026 -Welcome & Vision Session: Introducing Our New Women in Power (WiP) Representative
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June 18, 2026 -VTS DL Talk: Twisted Signals for ISAC via OAM Vortex Beams
Welcome & Vision Session: Introducing Our New Women in Power (WiP) Representative
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
VTS DL Talk: Twisted Signals for ISAC via OAM Vortex Beams
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
Friday, June 19, 2026
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Saturday, June 20, 2026
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