Senior Member Elevation

Senior member is the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply. IEEE members can self-nominate, or be nominated, for Senior Member grade. The Seattle Section wants to help YOU become a Senior Member. Contact Joe Decuir (jdecuir@ieee.org) for more details!

Congratulations to 2026 new IEEE Seattle Senior Members (218):
Merike Kaeo, P Selvan Viswanathan, Felipe Bertrand, Emad Saad, Theodore Willke, Ameet Joshi, Eric Campbell, TYLER MARSHALL, Brian Kormanyos, Tieyu Zheng, Sriram Srinivasan, Tushar Shenoy, Joshua Moles, Puneet Rana, John Mosy, Kennedy Aganah, Rahul Vanam, Gerald Friedland, Jeff Glickman, Chadatarn Panomvana, Hamid Atighechi, Medha Karri, Aakash Deep, NITESH THALI, Ashok Prakash, Ashok Chandrasekar, Isaac Abothu, Ravish Gupta, Anand Ganesh, Manuja Bandal, Md Abid Hossain, Wotao Yin, Shubhra Mittal, Akshay Sonawane, Prasath Shanmugam, Utsav Popli, Anish Mohan, Mohak Rajendra, Pooja Walia, Souvik Bhattacharya, Shantanu Kumar, Juwon Kim, Song Chen, Prasanth Yadla, Prajakta Sudhir Samant, Venukumar Chirlawar, Abdul Muqtadir Mohammed Zubair, Arpit Chaudhary, Madhu Chavva, Muskaan Mongia, Shruti Singh, Mukesh Dua, Hanuma Ramesh Chadalavada, Avinash Karani, Niranjan Kumar Sharma, Pankaj Singhal, MohanaSudhan Gandhi, tong zhou, Aishwarya Babu, Guruprasad G Venkatesha, Amogh Param, Arnab Saha, Sasank Tummalapalli, Ravi Mandliya, Akshay Hathwar, Ambarish Majumdar, Shankar Balla, Gaurav Naresh Mittal, Shikhar Gupta, Vaishnavi Gudur, Jaikumar Banthia, Sarbani Paul, Harish Chintalapudi, Priyadharshini Krishnamurthy, Arjun Malhotra, Sanjiv Kumar Bhagat, Siddhant Sonkar, Niharika Gupta, Vibhas Mohan Zanpure, Sumit Kumar Tiwari, Manikanta Kotthapalli, Raju Ansari, Ritish Chugh, Bhaskar Gautam, Aniruddha Singh Gautam, Hemanth manchabale Papachapp, Deep Dubey, Prakhar Srivastava, Priyanka Khandelwal, Harpreet Paramjeet Singh, Surbhi gupta, Madhvi Sharma, Akash Goel, Vibhav Salgaonkar, Varsha Ganesh, Rakesh Reddy Charla, Alok Kumar, Devabrat Kumar, Akrita Agarwal, Vimal Poonia, lalith lakshmi mangalagiri, Upendran Manickam, Shikha Gupta, Abhishek Navarkar, Sharad Shashank, Sarthak Anandkumar Shah, Nagendra Krishna Ramachandran, Manikarthik Konakalla, Prudhvi Sowmith Godithi, Rashi Raj, Tanvi Gour, Ramya Narasimha, Sanjay Lokula, Daksh Kumar Vasistha, Sanjay Kurra, Damodar Yekkuluri, Fenil Shah, Sergey Slovetskiy, Bradley Stoney, Soumya Remella, Satya Reddi, Anshu Prabhat, zongfei zhang, DIBYA JYOTI MISHRA, Kavitha Subramaniam, Saravanan Raj, Sandeep Raichura, Karthik Kuppa, Chiranjib Sardar, Naveen Doraiswami, Mayank Singhi, archit sood, Tarun Kundu, Shailesh Sayarmal Chaudhary, KRUPAKAR REDDY PONTATI, Vyom Mittal, Manisha Biswas, Sumit Tare, Parikshit Sharma, SHIVA KUMARA, Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth, Kesavsundar Gopalakrishnan, Senthil Kumar Gopalan, Ankit Kumar, Anupama Gaddagimath, Sarika Surve, Lydwin Maria Arul Lilly Chinnappan, Sudheer Kumar Reddy Bollavaram, Pooja Jhunjhunwala, Ajinkya Kher, Siddhesh Surve, Surjit Boruah, Vinoth Kumar Saalai Elangovan, Sandeep Reddy Peddi, Nishant Sinha, Henry Cyril, Hema Sekhar Reddy Busireddy, Chiranjive Mittal, Rahul Devikar, Smit Nitinkumar Shah, Andrei Miloserdov, Rajya Laxmi Yellajosyula, Nitin Srivastava, UdayKumar Kalae, Prakash Achuthan, Jay Dave, Rohit Joshi, Pavan Reddy Nookala, Raju Chowdhury, Dimple Shah, Venkata Chirala, Srikrishna Srinivasan, Kaarthikeyan Subramanian, Adarsh Agrawal, Purvi Joshi, Aaditya Chauhan, Manjunath Ganga, ROHAN KUMAR SUDHIR VARDHAN, Yun Gu, Rohit Shukla, Praveen Vuppuluri, Vasu Jain, Vishal Jain, Rohil Bansal, Maheshbabu Dhanekula, Ankit Agrawal, Sathish Sampath, Pratik Pankaj Raichura, Chandra Verma, Yash Rajeshbhai Parikh, Rajesh Balaji, Pushpendra Singh, Manushi Sheth, Manan Rajesh Dedhia, Nikhil Chandra, Rajat Rawal, Sai Sindhura Poosarla, Himanshu Sharma, Ashish Arora, Xiaodong Liu, Vinay Todalge, Prachi Rajendra Kate, Krit Gupta, Lalitha Manjapara Viswanathan, Kishore Chaganti, Sandeep Venkatesh, Nitesh Khapekar, Karuna Ramkumar, Varsha Shah, Rishabh Gupta, KrishnaSaiReddy Patil, Anoop Kunjuraman Pillai, Semyon Slepov, Manmeet Singh, Anup Gautam, Hemant Chawla, Rishu Garg, Ankit Garg

 

Benefits of IEEE Senior Membership:

  • Recognition: The professional recognition of your peers for technical and professional excellence.
  • Leadership eligibility: Senior members are eligible to hold executive IEEE volunteer positions.
  • Ability to refer other candidates: Senior members can serve as a reference for other applicants for Senior membership.
  • Review panel: Senior members are invited to be on the panel to review Senior member applications.
  • Letter of Recommendation: A letter of commendation on the achievement of Senior member grade will be sent to your employer (upon request.) Request a letter of commendation.
  • Announcements: Announcement of your elevation can be made in section/society and/or local newsletters, newspapers, and notices.

In addition to your new benefits, the following rewards are sent to you via postal mail:

  • Complimentary Society Voucher: You may use this voucher to join one new IEEE Society.
  • Senior Member plaque: An engraved plaque you can proudly display to colleagues, clients, and employers. The plaque, an attractive fine wood with bronze engraving, is sent approximately eight weeks after elevation..

To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must:

  • Be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields
  • Have experience reflecting professional maturity
  • Have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees)
  • Show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice

Generalized requirements for total of 10 years of experience:

  • 7 years of professional practice + 3 years of Bachelor’s degree
  • 6 years of professional practice + 4 years of Doctoral degree

**If you got your master’s degree while working, you can only count one or the other but not both… in most cases, you will need 7 years of experience

More detail on specific requirements.

How to find references who are IEEE senior members & Fellow

We know how difficult it is to find references but have no fear, the Seattle section is here to help! But before reaching out to us, are you aware of a new IEEE cool called CollabraTEC? You can actually search for specific members who are already seniors or fellows and from various societies, areas of interest, and even company! Check out the instructions below. If you have trouble, contact Joe Decuir (jdecuir@ieee.org) for support!

Find IEEE Senior & Fellow Members on CollabraTEC!