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FIGURE 4: The SSCS Webinars for Young Excellence, November 2020.

For up com ing webin a r s, we
have selected a mixture of topics that span career navigation,
research tips hot research topics,
cutting-edge advances in solidstate circuits and systems on chip,
and interdisciplinar y practices.
Please reach out to us with the topics you would like to listen to. To
learn more about the WYE and the
upcoming series, you can visit
https://sscs.ieee.org/membership/
young-professionals/webinars-for
-young-excellence-w ye-program.
All past webinars are available at the
SSCS YouTube channel: https://www
.youtube.com/c/IEEESolidStateCir
cuitsSociety/videos.

In-Person and Online Mentoring
and Networking Sessions
For more than a decade, we have been
organizing micro-mentoring and
career coaching sessions, initiated
and hosted by Emre Ayranci, in
conjunction with SSCS-sponsored
conferences around the world. These
mentoring events are our flagship
activity and have became a tradition
over the years (Figure 5). The in-person sessions are open to all YPs and
graduate students (Society members
or not) living in the area in addition
to the conference attendees. These
sessions present a great networking opportunity among YPs along
with the mentoring sessions. Our

FIGURE 5: The ISSCC micro-mentoring and career coaching session, February 2020.

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mentors are from different technical backgrounds, and we also try to
maintain diversity in terms of affiliation (industry/academia/entrepreneurship), gender, and region of the
world. We collaborate with the IEEE
Electron Devices Society, the SSCS
Women in Circuits Committee, local
SSCS Chapters, and conference organizers, which results in different
event formats.
In 2020, as the worldwide trend
moves toward v
-irtual conferences
and events, we also shifted our flagship event to virtual. Our first completely online mentoring event was
organized as a part of the 2020 VLSI
Symposium (Figure 6). We had more
than 90 attendees, 16 of whom were
mentors, for this event. The virtual
mentoring event included parallel
breakout sessions led by each mentor with the goal of two to six mentees at each room/breakout session.
Mentees were free to float in between
rooms and talk to different mentors
throughout the event, similar to our
in-person mentoring sessions. Our
aim was to create a welcoming, more
informal environment, where mentees had a whole hour to ask their
questions and make connections
with the world's leading experts.
Following a session during the 2020
Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference in November 2020, our upcoming online mentoring session will be
a part of ISSCC 2021. Further details

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