Announcing keynote speakers for the Opening Plenary session of the New Era AI Enablement Workshops on October 26, 2024, from 8:00 – 9:20 AM.
The Plenary session is being held in Discovery Hall (UW2) and the workshops are being held in Founder’s Hall Building (UW1), University of Washington Bothell, 17927 113th Ave NE, Bothell, WA 98011
Registration is open: https://attend.ieee.org/newera/register/
Plenary session (8 AM) agenda:
Opening Remarks – Dr. Sheree Wen, Event Chair
Welcome Keynote – IEEE President 2025, Professor Kathleen Kramer, USD
Welcome Keynote – Dean, UWB STEM School, Professor Jennifer McLoud-Mann
Keynote – Chair, UWB Computing & Software Systems Division, Professor Michael Stiber
Speakers:
Dr. Sheree Wen, organizer and chair, New Era AI Summit & Workshops
Sheree Wen received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, then worked at IBM, making vital contributions to the first MIPS High-speed mainframe computer. Dr. Wen then built companies with factories in the United States and Asian countries which developed, manufactured, and distributed OEM brands of IBM, AT&T, Unisys, and Wen products worldwide. Her companies also serviced and supplied products to Federal, State, and local governments. Sheree is also deeply committed to the public good. She served as a United States National Commissioner to UNESCO and is the Founder and President of UNESCO Washington State. Sheree has chaired and served on various commissions, committees, and councils in state, regional and local governments. She has worked closely with IEEE, serving as the chair of the Humanitarian Partnership Committee, the Communication and Cybersecurity Policy Committee, and Region 6 Government Relations and Women in Engineering. Currently, Sheree serves on various national and local boards. Sheree was honored as the young scientist of the year and Gold medal by AIME, Award of Excellence by United States Small Business Administrators, top women entrepreneurs by The New York Times, and featured in 20th Century Asian Professional Women by Japan Asahi News.
Kathleen Kramer, 2025 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.
Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Professor & Dean, UWB School of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM School)
Dr. Jennifer McLoud-Mann received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Arkansas in 2002 and her B.S. in Mathematics from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma in 1997. She joined the UW Bothell faculty in 2013 as a tenured associate professor. Prior to joining UW Bothell, she worked at the University of Texas at Tyler. While at UT Tyler, she not only gained experience as a tenure-track faculty, but she served as the Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.
Dr. McLoud’s current research interests include various areas in discrete mathematics including knot theory, tiling theory, and combinatorics. More accessible areas of mathematics allow her to involve undergraduate students in her research. Dr. McLoud is the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant establishing the first NSF REU site at UW Bothell.
In summer 2015, a tiling theory research result involving an undergraduate and now UW alum, David Von Derau, and colleague, Casey Mann, caught much media attention as well as attention from the mathematics community; after 30 years since the last major result, they discovered the 15th pentagon to tile the plane.
Michael Stiber, UWB Professor & Division Chair, Computing & Software Systems
Dr. Michael Stiber earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. Before coming to UWB, he was an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and a Research Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Florida and a Fulbright Scholar in the Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Dr. Stiber’s research lies at the intersection of complex networks, modeling, high performance simulation, data/metadata/paradata management, and analysis and visualization. He has applied these interests to problems in computational neuroscience, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and nonlinear dynamics.