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IEEE COUNCIL ON ELECTRONIC
DESIGN AUTOMATION
President: Donatella Sciuto
President-Elect: Sani Nassif
Past President: Andreas Kuehlmann
Secretary: Yao-Wen Chang
VP Conferences: David Atienza
VP Finance: Shishpal Rawat
VP Publications: Sachin Sapatnekar
VP Publicity: Rajesh Gupta
VP Strategy: William Joyner
VP Activities: Joel Phillips

industry experts and attracted more
than 98 attendees.

CTS-CEDA Career Management
Workshop

In August 2013, CTS-CEDA and four
more local IEEE Chapters cohosted a
career management workshop. Due to
the fast pace of technology changes
and productivity improvements in
an increasingly competitive market, companies have been forced to
upgrade and improve their products
or services frequently and adjust their
workforces. Downsizing, outsourcing,
Find us online at www.c-eda.org.
automation, financial pressures, shortterm demands, and failed strategies
all contribute challenges to individuand synergistic way to facilitate
als' careers and ultimate retirement
such growth, which is expected to
goals. How can one prepare for, react
maximize the impact of exploratory
to, and manage this situation? Smart,
research and give Texas a
proactive
career
leading role in it.
planning, manageA CTA-CEDA career
Texas WISE not only
ment, and transimanagement workprovides a chance for
tion might be the
shop in August 2013
face-to-face interaction
answer. The objective
boosted attenda m o n g Te x a s I C r e of this workshop was
ees' awareness
searchers and practitioto increase attendees'
of the unintended
ners but also attracts
awareness of the uninconsequences of
outstanding
speaktended consequences
change.
ers outside of Texas.
of change, teach them
Thus, the workshop
to expect the unexpected,
serves a key role in facilitating inand motivate them to proactively exeteractions between academia and
cute their career goals.
industry along multiple dimensions.
The workshop attracted 66 attendTexas WISE 2013 included invited
ees and featured five invited talks:
■ "Vision on Technology and Future
talks by four distinguished speakers:
Jobs," by David Smith (HBMG)
The first was by H.-S. Philip Wong
■ "Defining
Career
Success-
(Stanford University), "SemiconducBeyond Skills and Experience," by
tor Technologies for N+m Nodes,
Tommy Chiodo (career counselor)
Where m' 4." The second was by Srini■ "Empowered Productivity: Winvas Devadas (MIT), "Meeting Cybersening the War Against Informacurity Challenges through Innovative
tion Overload," by Maura Thomas
Computer System Design." Addition(RegainYourTime.com)
ally, there were two outstanding
■ "Build Your Brand," by David
young speaker talks by Lin Zhong
Hughen (AustinHR.com)
(Rice University) and Roozbeh Jafari
(University of Texas at Dallas).
A student poster session showcasing research by 28 students from
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters is open for
participating universities fostered
submissions. Visit mc.manuscriptcentral.
communication and collaboration
com/les-ieee.
among academic scholars and IC

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■

"Repurpose Your Career-Five
Steps to Your Next Career Pivot,"
by Marc Miller (career designer).

Learn More about CTS-CEDA
To better promote professional networking, CTS-CEDA has established
a mailing list (ceda-texas@listserv.
ieee.org) with more than 1,700
recipients. To learn more about
CTS-CEDA, please contact Zhuo Li
(zhuoli@ieee.org) or scan this code
to visit our Web site at http://ewh.
ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ceda. We
welcome your feedback and suggestions to further improve our Chapter.
-Cliff Sze, Natarajan Viswanathan, and Zhuo Li

Papers in IEEE Embedded
Systems Letters
The top-five accessed articles from
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters in
August 2013 were:
■ "Expanding Gate Level Information Flow Tracking for Multilevel
Security," by Wei Hu et al.
■ "Wireless Sensor Networks for Pilgrims Tracking," by M. Mohandes
et al.
■ "Reconfigurable
Computing in
Next-Generation Automotive Networks," by S. Shreejith, S.A. Fahmy,
and M. Lukasiewycz
■ "Hardware-Assisted Detection of
Malicious Software in Embedded
Systems," by M. Rahmatian et al.
■ "Formal Methods for Early Analysis
of Functional Reliability in Component-Based Embedded Applications," by A. Hazra et al.

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