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IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) recently launched a new way for Sections to recognize members for their years of service to IEEE. The IEEE Loyalty Program allows Section leaders to thank new and longtime members alike, regardless of grade, with commemorative lapel pins to celebrate milestone years of IEEE membership.

The IEEE Fellow program is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Read about its history.

In a continuing effort to provide world-class resources to new and future generations of engineers, IEEE Young Professionals has introduced two new services – IEEE ResumeLab and IEEE Mentor Centre.

Requirements:
The successful candidate should have a PhD or equivalent experience in related field of science/engineering with specific experience with wireless embedded systems. You should good quantitative and analytical skills and a willingness to work in a collaborative working environment.

Duration of post: 3 year fixed term contract

Deadline for Applications: 6 August 2014

Positions available for outstanding theoretical researchers with high impact publications in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and similar quality journals to work on signal processing and communications for smart grid and sensor networking problems. Send vita with names of three references, a research plan, and sample publications to rblum(at)Lehigh(dot)edu

Steger, Scott Tiedeman(California Institute of Technology) “A fundamental approach to phase noise reduction in hybrid Si/III-V lasers”,  Advisor: Yariv, Amnon(2014)

Samsung recently revealed its Samsung Digital Health Initiative to accelerate innovations in preventive health technology. The Samsung Digital Health Initiative features new hardware and software platforms and a $50 million investment fund.

The first EURASIP PhD Summer School will be held on 8-12 September 2014 in Pisa (Italy) and will focus on Radar Signal Processing. The School aims to providing PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and young scientists with the unique opportunity to meet and learn from leading experts about the most advanced signal processing techniques applied in radar systems for remote sensing, target classification and surveillance.

IEEE SigView has recently posted two presentations about Cognitive Information Processing as (1) Bayesian Data Fusion for Cognitive Dynamical Systems and (2) Deep Dynamic Bayesian Networks as a bio-inspired interaction modeling in Interaction Driven - Cognitive Dynamic Systems (ID-CDS).