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Further, in 2022 CASS also endorsed the Women-inEngineering
(WiE) pledge to continue to promote female
scientists and engineers with the implementation of
strategies towards a diversified gender composition in
all the forums (not only technical but also management)
established in our Society.
Education and Communications
This has probably been one of the most active areas in
2022.
First, at the organizational level, we created the Education
and Digital Communications (EDU-COM) Division
to coordinate, supervise, develop, and maintain the
Society's programs on continuing education, as well as,
to oversee the Society's online content and establish the
communication channels to distribute information to
our members in a timely and accurate manner. Further,
given the affinity of the activities, our successful Distinguished
Lecturers Program (DLP) was also included
among the responsibilities of this Division-by the way,
an excellent list of Distinguished Lectures has just been
appointed for the 2023-2024 term.
Second, a new plan for Image Enhancement through
Continuous Education was conceived and implemented
to promote and preserve the CAS knowledge framed in
a global and diverse technical community, to enrich the
current CASS educational portfolio, and to contribute to
the circuit and systems education worldwide. The plan
is articulated around two main initiatives: the monthly
broadcasting of CASS-wide webinars delivered by leading
CASS researchers; and the selection and archiving
of keynote presentations offered at major CASS flagship
conferences. In both cases, the recordings are made
available on the CASS Resource Center and the IEEE
Learning Network for improving the visibility of IEEE
CASS (both inside and outside the Society). The webinar
series started in October 2022 (all the presentations
obtained notable participation, in some cases with
almost 300 attendees), and 19 keynotes can now be visualized
for free from our Resource Center.
Web-Based Mentoring Program and Young
Professionals Support
While some measures have been postponed until the
Digital Communications Standing Committee of the
EDU-COM Division is up and running (quite in particular,
the launch of a web-based mentoring program to introduce
YPs to the CASS world and provide them advice
in early career development, or the creation of a YP's
corner in the CASS website to post material targeted
at young members such as job offers, blogs, bulletin
boards, or podcasts), we have reinforced other initiatives
specifically focused on students and early-career
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professionals. Thus, for example, in 2022 we held six Seasonal
Schools on Circuits and Systems (SSCAS), three of
which were recorded and will soon be available on the
CASS Resource Center for the entire community. We also
substantially increased (3 times) the budget for travel
grants to encourage our graduate students' participation
in CASS flagship/premier conferences. And, additionally,
we approved the formation of 13 new student
branches to stimulate the formation of local networks
based on the promotion of circuit and systems knowledge
through initiatives funded by the outreach funding
program (two calls per year). In 2023, we will continue
to enhance the attendance of young professionals at our
flagship conferences and support the events organized
under the YP program.
Industry Participation
One of my main objectives as President is to achieve
a more cohesive society in which everyone can reach
their professional goals and this, of course, also concerns
our Industry members. In 2022 we launched different
initiatives aimed at this collective to encourage their
participation in the CASS life. We started the year with
the appointment of the 2022-23 Committee of the CASS
Standards Activities Sub Division (SASD), a new organizational
body under the Technical Activities (TA) Division
which aims to promote and foster a closer relationship
between academia and industry communities for
the development of standards-related works within the
scope of the Society. This Sub Division has done significant
work in recruiting more than 50 experts, organized
into four Standards Committees, and has developed different
outreach events as part of CAS conferences such
as ISCAS, AICAS, and BioCAS.
At ISCAS 2022, one track was entirely devoted to
Industry. It included technical presentations, an industry-academic
panel discussion, and an industrial fair/
reception attended by experts from all across the globe.
At AICAS 2022, 20 companies participated as exhibitors
and all keynote speakers were industry representatives.
At ICECS 2022, an industry forum about the future of
quantum computers was held. These are examples, by
no means comprehensive, of successful integration of
Industry events in our conferences... But we should go
further and explore more mechanisms for participation.
To this end, an Ad-Hoc Committee on Industry Engagement
was launched for devising strategies to increase
the number of technical contributions from industry to
our conferences (e.g., through special sessions, technical
workshops, or dedicated tracks, with industry
members involved in the technical programs), to set up
non-profit exhibition or demonstration sessions from
industry, to enable networking spaces with younger
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