Global Communications Newsletter (original) (raw)

2018, IEEE Communications Magazine

This is the second article in the series of nine, started in May 2018 and published monthly in the IEEE ComSoc Global Communications Newsletter, which covers all areas of IEEE ComSoc Member and Global Activities. In this series of articles, I introduce the Vice-President and six Directors on the Member and Global Activities Council (namely: Sister and Related Societies; Membership Services; AP, NA, LA, EMEA Regions) and the two Chairs of the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) and Young Professionals (YP) Standing Committees. In each article, one by one they present their sector activities and plans. In this issue, I interview Octavia A. Dobre, Director of Sister and Related Societies. Octavia is a Professor and Research Chair at Memorial University, Canada. She is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters, and has served as an editor and senior editor for other prestigious journals. She also chairs the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing for Communications and Electronics Technical Committee, and has served as an officer for other technical committees, as well as technical co-chair of symposia at various conferences. Bregni: Octavia, we should begin by reminding readers what are the Sister and Related Societies of ComSoc. Dobre: The Communications Society (ComSoc), as one of the most prominent units of the IEEE, and has a long tradition of global outreach. ComSoc's Sister and Related Societies program represents one of the vehicles for strengthening the globalization of our membership. Sister Societies are national or international professional associations with status and technical scope similar to ComSoc. On the other hand, Related Societies are complementary in technical scope, but do not overlap ComSoc's technical orientation.