A heartfelt thank you to our keynote speaker, Professor Chad Bouton, whose captivating speech about “Revolutionizing Medicine with Brain Interfaces and AI” was the highlight of the night. Finally, thank you to all of the volunteers who helped to make it a grand success.
A special pictorial edition of The Pulse of Long Island will be published and distributed next month, so please stay tuned.
Warm Regards,
Rhonda Green
2024 IEEE Long Island Section Chair
chair@ieee.li
Below are some upcoming Section events that you need to know about:
As you can see, we are off to a busy start and I hope that you will support the Section by becoming involved in our many activities. As always, stay engaged by getting connected and getting involved.
Warm Regards,
Rhonda Green
2024 IEEE Long Island Section Chair
chair@ieee.li
We have had many new volunteers step into ExCom leadership roles and continue to need energetic members with a positive and collaborative attitude to help us with Section activities.
Please save the date, our Awards Banquet is Thursday, March 21, 2024.
As we prepare for 2024; please take time to renew your membership at ieee.org/renew.
Listed below is next year’s ExCom meeting calendar:
2024 Executive Committee Meetings
If you have any suggestions, recommendations, questions, comments or concerns; please contact me at chair@ieee.li
Happy Holidays and enjoy the “2023 Year in Review!”
Rhonda Green
2023 IEEE Long Island Section Chair
chair@ieee.li
Planning is already underway for the 2023 Power Electronics Symposium, which will be held on November 2nd. For more information, go to https://www.ieee.li/pes/.
Another significant action for the Section is electing the 2024 slate of Executive Committee officers. Our Junior Past Chair, Arnie Stillman, will chair the nominating committee and start the procedure. Self-nominations are acceptable, and there is no particular experience required for the offices. Please keep an eye out for the election process directives from Arnie.
We are very fortunate for all who volunteer to serve the Section, and I trust that everyone is ready to continue the mission of getting connected and involved.
Warm Regards,
Rhonda Green
2023 IEEE Long Island Section Chair
chair@ieee.li
Video analytics involves processing video content in real-time, extracting metadata, sending out alerts, and delivering actionable intelligence insights to security staff or other systems. Video analytics products apply artificial intelligence to cameras to recognize temporal and spatial events. Video analytics are needed in various end applications such as quality inspection, industrial process automation, and workplace security. It is crucial to have video analytics performed at the edge on the multiple streams from on-premises cameras to make automated predictions with high accuracy and low latency. This talk explains the co-design of hardware friendly algorithms and corresponding domain specific accelerator architectures for machine learning inference at the edge for video analytics.
Monday evening, October 30 virtual
Thanks,
Mr. Mesecher & Dr. Donaldson
Signal Processing Vice Chair & Chair, 2023
IEEE LI Section
Website
Accurate image segmentation holds significance for vital clinical applications such as diagnosis and surgery planning. While deep neural networks have excelled in achieving superior segmentation outcomes via fully supervised learning, their reliance on substantial annotated training data is a challenge. Procuring extensive labeled datasets for medical images is labor-intensive and costly due to the need for clinical expertise in annotations. Thus, an opportunity for improvement is evident. Hence, the critical need to devise strategies for attaining medical images with scant annotations while harnessing untapped potential within unlabeled data during training. We harness the power of self-supervised representation learning and semi-supervised learning in this regard and perform extensive experiments on images from multiple modalities: Computer Tomograhpy (CT) scan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan, Histopathology studies, etc. Our recent research showcases that even with minimal annotations estimate of x<10%, we achieve comparable or superior performance compared to fully supervised approaches.
Friday evening, August 25 virtual
Thanks,
Mr. Mesecher & Dr. Donaldson
Signal Processing Vice Chair & Chair, 2023
IEEE LI Section
Website
The month of May yielded many successful events at New York Tech, such as the Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology (LISAT) Conference. Attendees included distinguished lecturers, industry professionals, faculty, researchers, students, and exhibitors. Next was our outstanding Micromouse of Long Island competition. Each student team made a technical presentation to IEEE judges, fully describing their robot. Trophies for “Presentation” and “Unique Robot” were awarded independent of the Maze Run outcomes. In addition, Women in Engineering awards were given to teams with female members. I want to thank and congratulate the organizing committees for both stellar events. Finally, we hosted our first ExCom meeting at Zebra Technologies, and this hybrid gathering had excellent attendance. Zebra Engineers welcomed ExCom during the meet-n-greet, and many stayed on to attend the meeting.
A few notable RAS workshops held in June were “Artificial General Intelligence” at the Huntington Senior Citizens Center and “Intro to Robotics for Tweens” at the Harborfields Public Library. In addition, we celebrated “PELS” Day at Chilis; an informal social with great food and conversation.
In conclusion, as we look forward to the next series of events, please consider submitting your abstract for the November 2, 2023 Power Electronics Society (PELS) Symposium or contact the organizers to volunteer to help. Don’t forget to mark your calendars on March 21st, 2024 for the 2024 Long Island Section Awards
Banquet at the Crest Hollow Country Club. As always, please continue to get connected and get involved
and enjoy the summer!
Warm Regards,
Rhonda Green
2023 IEEE Long Island Section Chair
chair@ieee.l
The last decade has witnessed rapid progress in science and technology and several breakthroughs that have resulted in the shifting of the human-technology frontier. The global pandemic generated a large perturbation with long term implications in both technological and societal realms. In this context, I argue that engineering careers should include not only technical fields but also science and technology management and administration, education, communication, ethics, and policy/diplomacy at local, national, and international levels. Adopting such a broad viewpoint will open many interesting and highly satisfactory career paths for our community and may bring personal and professional fulfillment in unexpected ways.
Wednesday Evening, June 21 virtual
Thanks,
Mr. Mesecher & Dr. Donaldson
Signal Processing Vice Chair & Chair, 2023
IEEE LI Section
Website