IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine - Q1 2023 - 4

President's
Message
Manuel Delgado-Restituto
President, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2022-2023)
Dear Members of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
F
irst, I would like to convey my best wishes to all
of you for a prosperous, healthy, productive, and
enjoyable New Year.
I begin 2023 with the same enthusiasm as in the
first year of my mandate, with the firm commitment of
dedication and effort to expand and improve the quality
of the services offered to our members, as well as
to strengthen the technical leadership of our Society.
In this message, I would like to briefly outline some of
the important measures that have been developed in
2022 and present some new initiatives that will be put
forward in the next months. I will use the same grouping
of areas used in my early 2022 President's message for
better tracking of accomplishments.
CASS in IEEE
Remarkable efforts have been made to identify collaborative
scenarios within the IEEE with the goal of providing
additional benefits to our members. Thus, CASS has
become one of the sponsoring societies of the IEEE Future
Networks, which is an IEEE Technical Community
that strives to address the challenges of next-generation
wireless technologies. Similarly, CASS has joined the
IEEE Smart Grid Consortium, where our members can
find information, resources, and expertise about smart
grid technology. With these two communities, CASS
brings the number of sponsored Technical Communities
to five, along with IEEE Brain, IEEE Internet of the
Things, and IEEE Rebooting Computing. In these communities,
as well as in the six IEEE Councils financially
sponsored by CASS, CASS members can participate for
free or with significant discounts in the activities developed
within these communities and can find a space
for multidisciplinary and multi-society collaboration to
advance research, standardization, and development of
technologies.
In 2022, CASS also joined a new IEEE TAB Program
on Climate Change whose objective is to discuss the
current and future problems caused by climate change
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and define a roadmap of specific actions to mitigate its
impact. In this Program, CASS is leading one of the identified
task forces, namely, the impact of agriculture on
climate change and GHG emissions. Further, in November,
our society organized the first IEEE Workshop on
Electronics for mitigating Climate Change (EmC2) which
counts with the technical sponsorship of the IEEE Sensors
Council, the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS),
the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society (SSCS), and the IEEE Society on Social
Implications of Technology (SSIT).
Besides other collaborations in publications and conferences
to be detailed later, CASS has formed an agreement
with SSCS to contribute educational purposes to
the PICO Program (Platform for IC Design Outreach) in
geographic areas where CASS has a presence and SSCS
does not. This will help low-income and/or low-opportunity
countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia to
gain experience and accessibility to IC technologies,
thus contributing to the democratization of IC design.
With these premises, our goal for 2023 is to sponsor four
open-source designs for silicon fabrication and testing.
Diversity and Inclusion
In a scientific society such as CASS, whose mission, according
to the IEEE CASS Strategic Plan 2020-24, is to
foster technological innovation for the benefit of humanity,
there can be no discrimination of any kind. On
the contrary, all members must have the same rights
to participate, contribute, serve, and be recognized
by the community. For that reason, in early 2022 we
amended our Bylaws and created a Standing Committee
on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). This Committee
expands the Women-in-CAS (WiCAS) and Young
Professionals (YP) programs and works to promote an
inclusive and equitable culture that welcomes, engages,
and rewards all who contribute to CASS, regardless of
race, religion, gender, disability, age, national origin,
sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression. The
DEI committee was approved by IEEE TAB and it acts
as a liaison with the IEEE TAB Committee on Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion.
FIRST QUARTER 2023

https://sscs.ieee.org/about/solid-state-circuits-directions/sscs-pico-program https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/ https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/ https://smartgrid.ieee.org/ https://brain.ieee.org/ https://iot.ieee.org/ https://iot.ieee.org/ https://www.computer.org/communities/technical-committees/tfrc

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