The IEEE Board of Administrators shapes the long run course of IEEE and is dedicated to making sure IEEE stays a robust and vibrant group—serving the wants of its members and the engineering and know-how group worldwide whereas fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing know-how for the advantage of humanity.
This text options IEEE Board of Administrators members Bala S. Prasanna, Stefano Bregni, Charles M. Jackson, and H. Alan Mantooth.
IEEE Senior Member Bala S. Prasanna
Director, Area 1: Northeastern U.S.
 
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Prasanna brings greater than 35 years of educational and company expertise in telecommunications, laptop science, and digital transformation to his present roles. Within the tutorial realm, he has served as assistant professor of laptop science on the State College of New York in Oswego and taught C and C++ programming at Morgan State College, in Baltimore.
His company profession has included influential roles within the telecom business, the place he specialised within the design, improvement, and deployment of community administration methods. All through his profession, he has been devoted to mentorship, efficient communication, and management improvement.
Prasanna holds a bachelor’s diploma in physics and arithmetic in addition to a grasp’s diploma in arithmetic from Bangalore College, in India. He additionally earned a grasp’s diploma in laptop science from Southern Illinois College in Carbondale.
He has held prime management positions in IEEE for greater than 25 years, together with serving on the IEEE-USA board of administrators as secretary/treasurer. He additionally served on the IEEE Area 1 govt committee and board of governors and was the regional coordinator for Scholar Skilled Consciousness packages. He’s actively concerned with IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the consideration society of IEEE.
Prasanna is keen about IEEE’s humanitarian initiatives, particularly the IEEE MOVE program, which supplies communities with energy and communications capabilities in areas affected by widespread outages because of pure disasters.
He obtained an IEEE Third Millennium Award, which acknowledged his excellent contributions to the IEEE and his area.
Prasanna considers his efforts to mentor and encourage next-generation leaders to be his best accomplishment. He stays dedicated to skilled progress, group service, advocacy of impactful packages, and technological development.
IEEE Senior Member Stefano Bregni
Director, Division III
 
 Stefano Bregni
Since 1999, Bregni has been a professor of telecommunications networks inside the electronics, data, and bioengineering division at Politecnico di Milano, in Italy, the place he additionally earned his grasp of science diploma in electronics engineering.
His analysis exercise has been primarily centered on community synchronization and Web site visitors characterization. Community synchronization offers with the distribution of time and frequency over a community of clocks through the use of communication hyperlinks amongst them. The purpose is to make community components function synchronously. It has a direct affect on telecommunications operators and determines the standard of companies together with transmission methods and networks for switching, computer systems, and cell companies.
He contributed to the European Telecommunications Requirements Institute (ETSI)/Worldwide Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) requirements on community synchronization. He wrote Synchronization of Digital Telecommunications Networks. As an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, he introduced on synchronization ideas in academia and business.
Bregni innovated clock characterization and measurement methodologies, redefined commonplace measures, and superior technical ideas all through academia and business worldwide inside the IEEE Communications Society. He additionally utilized measures initially conceived for frequency stability characterization to the evaluation of Web site visitors in communications networks to allow extra real looking system design.
He has been an energetic IEEE volunteer for greater than 25 years and has held various prime management positions in IEEE ComSoc conferences, together with serving as technical program co-chair of flagship conferences IEEE Worldwide Convention on Communications 2016 (ICC 2016) and IEEE Globecom 2023. He’s a co-founder of the IEEE ComSoc Scholar Competitors, which is the primary ComSoc program awarding younger skills. He has been editor in chief of the society’s World Communications E-newsletter since 2007.
Bregni has been acknowledged for his volunteerism with the 2019 IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary World Service Award and the 2014 IEEE ComSoc Hal Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Conferences and Conferences. He’s dedicated to advancing know-how and mentoring next-generation expertise within the area.
IEEE Life Fellow Charles M. Jackson
Director, Division IV
 
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Jackson’s work has helped advance many house purposes, together with communications, radar, and Earth remark. Earlier than he retired in Might 2021, he centered on specialised microwave and millimeter-wave applied sciences. He labored at a number of communication firms, making digital receivers and driving developments within the area of phased array radar. He additionally labored within the aerospace business, aiding with space-based packages, supporting technical improvement, and testing the power and safety of bodily and information-based property towards organizational threats.
Jackson is an energetic member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Microwave Principle and Methods (MTT-S) societies and has been revealed within the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Management journal. He’s a previous chair of the IEEE Conferences Committee, and he held quite a few positions in Area 6 (Western U.S.) and its MTT-S chapter. He holds 5 patents and has revealed greater than 30 articles, together with items featured within the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Whereas recovering from most cancers, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind devices, notably Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets. He now makes use of 3D printing to make the devices and discusses his work in his Microwaves and Woodwinds presentation as a member of the MTT-S Audio system Bureau. His work has helped advance the sphere’s understanding of acoustical instrument design.
IEEE Fellow H. Alan Mantooth
Director, Division II
 
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All through his profession, Mantooth has been devoted to enabling larger efficiencies that cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions inside the energy-generation and transportation industries.
He obtained bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in electrical engineering from the College of Arkansas, in addition to a doctoral diploma from Georgia Tech.
Mantooth at present leads the UA Energy Group, a multidisciplinary staff of researchers engaged on next-generation electrical automobiles, renewable vitality methods, grid infrastructure, and cybersecurity. The UA Energy Group obtained an R&D Journal R&D 100 Award for its 250-kilowatt all-silicon carbide motor drive for hybrid plane.
Amongst his obligations on the energy group, Mantooth oversees amenities for semiconductor manufacturing, energy electronics packaging, and medium voltage testing. He makes a speciality of energy electronics for grid modernization, car electrification, and excessive setting electronics in a spread of purposes. His areas of focus embody semiconductor machine design and modeling, analog and mixed-signal IC design, CAD strategies, energy electronics design and packaging, and cybersecurity. The units, circuits, and methods assist enhance energy grid efficiency and defend the grid from cyberattacks. In addition they have business purposes for electrified plane, passenger automobiles, and heavy gear.
A longtime member and previous president of the IEEE Energy Electronics Society, Mantooth obtained the society’s Modeling and Management Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE Transactions on Energy Electronics Prize Paper Award, each in 2019.
Mantooth, named a Tech Titan of 2021 by Arkansas Cash & Politics journal, is an inductee of the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineering.
