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Board of Governors
IEEE-HKN Welcomes New Members
of the Board of Governors
The 2022 IEEE-HKN Board of Governors welcomed four new members, and a fifth member was elected
to a second term as Student Governor. James M. Conrad will lead the society as President in 2022.
Dr. James M. Conrad, former
IEEE-USA President and current
Professor and Associate Chair of the
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of North
Carolina, Charlotte, will serve as 2022
President. He is a member of the Beta
Eta Chapter and previously served as President-Elect and
the MGA Governor At-Large on the HKN Board.
Joseph Greene, Kappa Sigma
Chapter, will serve his second oneyear
term as Student Governor. He
is pursuing a Ph.D. in Computational
Imaging at Boston University with the
support of a NSF Neurophotonics
Research Trainee Fellowship and a
BU Nanotechnology Innovation Center Cross-Disciplinary
Fellowship.
Ronald Jensen, Nu Chapter and
IEEE Life Senior Member, serves as
Past President for 2022. Jensen served
as President in 2021, PresidentElect
in 2020, IEEE-HKN Treasurer
from 2015 to 2020, and Region
3-4 Governor from 2016-2018. He
has led numerous HKN committees, including Journey
Mapping, Finance, Strategic Planning, MGA Alignment,
Faculty Advisor, Membership, and PR & Communications.
Ashley Kuhnley, Lambda Beta
Chapter, was elected to a one-year
term as Student Governor. She is
pursuing a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering at California State
University, Northridge (CSUN). Her
emphasis is in biomedical engineering.
She is applying to biomedical and electrical engineering
doctoral programs where she can contribute to the field
of implantable cardiac devices. She was inducted into the
Lambda Beta Chapter in Spring 2021, when the Chapter
was reactivated. She is the Lambda Beta Chapter President.
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Jennifer Marley, Beta Eta Chapter,
will serve a three-year term as Region
3-4 Governor. She currently holds the
Frederick F. Jenny, Jr. Professorship of
Emerging Technology at Valparaiso
University, where she serves as faculty
advisor of the Mu Rho Chapter. She is
the 2020 recipient of the IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald
Outstanding Teaching Award. Since 2019, she has served
on the board of the Calumet Section of IEEE in the
following capacities: Student Activities Chair, Publicity
Chair, and Secretary.
Russell Meier, Eta Chapter, was
elected to a three-year term as
Governor At-Large. He is a Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at the Milwaukee School
of Engineering (MSOE), where he
mentors future engineers in digital
logic, computer architecture, digital electronics, and
computer networking. Meier is a member of the IEEE
Computer, Education, and Professional Communications
societies. He helped the Education Society create
multiple workshops, conferences, and online seminars for
engineering and computer science professors.
Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan,
Epsilon Delta Chapter, was elected
to serve as 2022 President-Elect.
He is best known for his technological
innovations in addressing global
humanitarian and sustainable
development challenges. He has
successfully delivered cutting-edge technologies in areas
of conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural
Language Understanding, cloud computing, enterprise
systems, infrastructure technologies, and assistive and
sustainable technologies.

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