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2024 IEEE President Elect Kathleen Kramer (1)

Kathleen A. Kramer, PhD.

Biography

2024 IEEE President-Elect 

Kathleen A. Kramer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego in California. She worked to develop new engineering programs as a founding member of the faculty and eventually became the chair of electrical engineering, and then serving as Director of Engineering (2004-2013), providing academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs. Her teaching interests are in the areas of signal processing, mechatronics and robotics, and communication systems.

She has also been a Member of Technical Staff at several companies, including ViaSat, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Communications Research. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) and is a past vice president of the society. She is a Fellow of ABET, and leader in the development of criteria for cyber security, mechatronics, and robotics.

She served on the IEEE Board of Directors as IEEE Secretary and chair of Governance, and as IEEE Region 6 (Western USA) Director. She was also chair of the 2023 IEEE Ad Hoc on Innovating Funding Models.

She received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering magna cum laude with a second major in physics from Loyola Marymount University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

2024 IEEE President Tom Coughlin

Tom Coughlin, PhD.

Biography

2024 IEEE President & CEO

Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant. He has more than 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions at several companies.

An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents. He is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which is now in its second edition with Springer. Tom is a regular storage and memory contributor for forbes.com and media and entertainment organizations. Coughlin Associates consults and publishes books and market and technology reports, including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and an Emerging Memory Report, and puts on digital storage-oriented events.

Tom has served in numerous IEEE volunteer leadership roles, including President of IEEE-USA, Director of IEEE Region 6, Vice President and Board member of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society,  Chair of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section, and Chair of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley. He is also active with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

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Mariela Cerrada Lozada, PhD.

Biography

Mariela Cerrada Lozada, IEEE Senior member, is a full professor with the Mechatronics career and GIDTEC research group, since 2017 at the Salesian Polytechnic University (Universidad Politécnica Salesiana UPS) in Cuenca, Ecuador. She is Systems Engineering with focus in Control Systems and received the Master Science degree in Control Engineering, both from University of Los Andes (Universidad de Los Andes ULA), in Mérida, Venezuela. She received the Ph.D. degree in Automatic systems from National Institute of Applied Sciences (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées INSA) in Toulouse, France. She was with the Control Systems Department at the University of Los Andes (Universidad de Los Andes ULA) from 1994 to 2016. She moved to Salesian Polytechnic University in Ecuador in 2014 after being awarded twice with the fellowship Prometeo from 2014 to 2017, as a researcher of the Group of Research and development of Industrial Technologies (GIDTEC). She also is a member of the Technical Committee on Manufacturing Plant Control of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), member of the executive committee of IEEE Ecuador section, representing the Industrial Engagement Committee for the years 2022 and 2023, as well as chair of the joint Industry Applications & Reliability chapter.

Her main line of research and development focuses on the applications of machine learning for the detection and diagnosis of faults in industrial processes. Due to her extensive research trajectory, she has been recently awarded/recognized with:

  • Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists ranking in the 2021 and 2022 editions.
  • Distinguished Researcher of the IEEE Ecuador Section in 2020.
  • Knowledge and Technology Transfer in 2022 and 2023
  • Best Industry-University Collaboration by the Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia (CEDIA) in 2021.
  • Industry Solutions Award 2021 from the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society.
  • 2022 edition of 50 Women in Robotics you need to know about.