IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine - Q1 2022 - 4

President's
Message
Manuel Delgado-Restituto
President, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2022-2023)
I
t is an enormous responsibility and at the same time
a great privilege to serve the IEEE Circuit and Systems
Society (CASS) as President for the next two years.
As I write these lines, my first thoughts go to the Presidents
who preceded me and with whom I have had the
honor to work. Thanks to their strategic guidance and
dedication, CASS is a respected and technically vibrant
professional society, and I will strive to build upon their
drives and enrich the quality of services offered to our
members. Profs. Franco Maloberti, Yong Lian and Amara
Amara; thank you very much.
I would also like to thank in advance the support and
commitment of the volunteers who will serve in the different
positions of the CASS organizational chart during
my term as President. I aspire to maintain an open, serene,
and conversational environment with all of them
as this is the only way to move well-coordinated and
fruitful initiatives forward. Special mention deserves the
members of the CASS Executive Committee (Ex-Com)
who will be my closest collaborators. Prof. Myung Hoon
Sunwoo will serve as President-Elect after a successful
four-years period as Vice President (VP) of Conferences.
Profs. Mohamad Sawan and Guoxing Wang will continue
in 2022 at the day-to-day helm of the Publications and Finance
Divisions, respectively. This year, three new Vice
Presidents will be in charge of the Conference, Regional
Activity and Membership, and Technical Activities Divisions.
They are Prof. Andrei Vladimirescu (replacing
Prof. Myung Hoon Sunwoo), Prof. Kea-Tiong Tang
(replacing Prof. Yoshifumi Nishio), and Prof. Xinmiao
Zhang (replacing Dr. Yen-Kuang Chen), respectively. The
new Ex-Com members have been deeply involved in the
Society governance from their roles in the CASS Board
of Governors (BoG), and mechanisms have been established
to avoid any service gap during the transition.
Herein, I would like to express my gratitude and recognition
to the outgoing VPs for their outstanding service
to the Society, and my complete confidence on the new
team with whom and I am fully convinced we will be able
to elevate the Society to next level.
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As President, I will endeavor to preserve and enhance,
whenever possible, the initiatives put forward in recent
years by my predecessors. Such initiatives have contributed
to emphasize the multidisciplinary feature of CASS
(for instance, with the creation of Special Interest Groups),
to promote research in emerging topics (for instance,
with the launch of CASS Competitions on Emerging and
Selected Topics), to facilitate industry and academia collaboration
(for instance, with the implementation of CASS
Industry Forums), to make available continuous education
programs (for instance, with the creation of the CASS
Resource Center), or to expand our regional activities (for
instance, with the Initiative for Africa). All these initiatives
have proven themselves as excellent tools to create
value for our members and strengthen the technical leadership
of our Society; objectives which, as could not be
otherwise, I will assume for the next two years.
Additionally, there are two main statements on which
my government plan will be based. On the one hand,
CASS should serve and recognize its members, no matter
the CAS technical topic in which they are active, and
provide the best career guidance and continuing education
services, especially for students and young professionals.
On the other, CASS should adhere to the 2020-24
CASS Strategic Plan and foster technological innovation
and excellence in fundamentals, emerging directions
and application of circuits and systems, taking advantage
of the unique multidisciplinary basis of our Society.
These statements will be articulated through, but not
limited to, the following actions.
CASS in IEEE
The CAS Society should react rapidly to the strategic
plans approved by IEEE and stay alert to the experiences
and proposals arising from other societies in
order to remain at the front line in development efforts.
Furthermore, CASS should work proactively
on identifying collaborative scenarios with our sister
societies and councils and, consider the launching of
co-sponsored publications or conferences if they can
entail evident benefits to our members. Among other
potential options, I want to explore the possibility and,
eventually take steps, to create an open-access journal
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