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Board News
IEEE-HKN Welcomes New Members
of the Board of Governors
The 2023 IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Board of Governors welcomed five new members, and
a 2022 Governor At-Large was elected President-Elect. They took office on 1 January 2023.
Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan,
Epsilon Delta Chapter, will lead the
society as President in 2023. He
is best known for his technological
innovations in addressing global
humanitarian and sustainable
development challenges. He has
successfully delivered cuttingedge
technologies in areas of conversational Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Understanding (NLU),
cloud computing, enterprise systems, infrastructure
technologies, and assistive and sustainable technologies.
Dr. Ryan Bales, Gamma Theta
Chapter, was elected 2023
President-Elect. He served as IEEEHKN
Governor At-Large from 2020
to 2022. Dr. Bales is a Principal
Research Engineer with the Georgia
Tech Research Institute's Sensors
and Electromagnetic Applications Lab and has 17 years
of experience in applied research in embedded systems
and electronic warfare. He has led the development of
the digital signal processor for the Angry Kitten advanced
electronic warfare program since its inception in 2011.
He mentors junior engineers in the areas of embedded
system design and signal processing and encourages
service as part of their professional growth.
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 2023 Past
President. He is a member of the Beta Eta Chapter and
previously served as President, President-Elect and the
MGA Governor At-Large on the HKN Board.
Denise Griffin, Epsilon Delta
Chapter, will serve as Region 1-2
Governor for a three-year term.
She began her career in Systems
Engineering with GTE Government
Systems and then worked for
startup companies. After one of the
startup companies was acquired
by Cisco Systems, she created and managed the
Technology Partner Program, supporting companies
as they integrated their products with Cisco. She then
took time off to raise her family, during which time she
volunteered extensively in both IEEE and SWE, creating
many impactful programs and events. She successfully
returned to work in industry in 2011 and credits
volunteer work for helping her to regain employment.
Since 2011 she has focused on Customer Success roles
and currently works as a Customer Success Manager at
Parlance.
Dr. Supavadee Aramvith, Eta
Chapter, will serve as Region 7-10
Governor for a three-year term.
She is an Associate Professor at the
Department of Electrical Engineering,
specializing in Video Technology. She
has successfully advised 11 Ph.D.,
27 Master's, and 36 Bachelor's graduates. She has rich
project management experiences as the project leader
and former technical committee chair to the Thailand
Government bodies in Telecommunications and ICT.
She has successfully spearheaded and delivered high
impactful member engagement and global and regional
initiatives on various IEEE boards and committees.
Amy Jones, Gamma Theta Chapter,
will serve a three-year term as
Governor At-Large. She began her
career as a Project Engineer at
Sachs Electric Company in St. Louis.
In 2010, Amy joined John Deere
full-time as a Software Verification
and Validation Engineer in the Construction and Forestry
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