The IEEE Board of Administrators shapes the longer term course of IEEE and is dedicated to making sure IEEE stays a powerful and vibrant group—serving the wants of its members and the engineering and expertise group worldwide whereas fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing expertise for the advantage of humanity.
This text options IEEE Board of Administrators members Bala S. Prasanna, Stefano Bregni, Charles M. Jackson, and H. Alan Mantooth.
IEEE Senior Member Bala S. Prasanna
Director, Area 1: Northeastern U.S.
 
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Prasanna brings greater than 35 years of educational and company expertise in telecommunications, pc science, and digital transformation to his present roles. Within the tutorial realm, he has served as assistant professor of pc science on the State College of New York in Oswego and taught C and C++ programming at Morgan State College, in Baltimore.
His company profession has included influential roles within the telecom trade, the place he specialised within the design, improvement, and deployment of community administration programs. All through his profession, he has been devoted to mentorship, efficient communication, and management improvement.
Prasanna holds a bachelor’s diploma in physics and arithmetic in addition to a grasp’s diploma in arithmetic from Bangalore College, in India. He additionally earned a grasp’s diploma in pc science from Southern Illinois College in Carbondale.
He has held high management positions in IEEE for greater than 25 years, together with serving on the IEEE-USA board of administrators as secretary/treasurer. He additionally served on the IEEE Area 1 govt committee and board of governors and was the regional coordinator for Pupil Skilled Consciousness packages. He’s actively concerned with IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honour society of IEEE.
Prasanna is enthusiastic about IEEE’s humanitarian initiatives, particularly the IEEE MOVE program, which supplies communities with energy and communications capabilities in areas affected by widespread outages as a consequence of pure disasters.
He obtained an IEEE Third Millennium Award, which acknowledged his excellent contributions to the IEEE and his subject.
Prasanna considers his efforts to mentor and encourage next-generation leaders to be his best accomplishment. He stays dedicated to skilled development, group service, advocacy of impactful packages, and technological development.
IEEE Senior Member Stefano Bregni
Director, Division III
 
 Stefano Bregni
Since 1999, Bregni has been a professor of telecommunications networks inside the electronics, data, and bioengineering division at Politecnico di Milano, in Italy, the place he additionally earned his grasp of science diploma in electronics engineering.
His analysis exercise has been primarily targeted on community synchronization and Web visitors characterization. Community synchronization offers with the distribution of time and frequency over a community of clocks by utilizing communication hyperlinks amongst them. The aim is to make community components function synchronously. It has a direct affect on telecommunications operators and determines the standard of providers together with transmission programs and networks for switching, computer systems, and cellular providers.
He contributed to the European Telecommunications Requirements Institute (ETSI)/Worldwide Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) requirements on community synchronization. He wrote Synchronization of Digital Telecommunications Networks. As an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, he introduced on synchronization ideas in academia and trade.
Bregni innovated clock characterization and measurement methodologies, redefined customary measures, and superior technical ideas all through academia and trade worldwide inside the IEEE Communications Society. He additionally utilized measures initially conceived for frequency stability characterization to the evaluation of Web visitors in communications networks to allow extra reasonable system design.
He has been an lively IEEE volunteer for greater than 25 years and has held a variety of high management positions in IEEE ComSoc conferences, together with serving as technical program co-chair of flagship conferences IEEE Worldwide Convention on Communications 2016 (ICC 2016) and IEEE Globecom 2023. He’s a co-founder of the IEEE ComSoc Pupil Competitors, which is the primary ComSoc program awarding younger abilities. He has been editor in chief of the society’s International Communications E-newsletter since 2007.
Bregni has been acknowledged for his volunteerism with the 2019 IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary International Service Award and the 2014 IEEE ComSoc Hal Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Conferences and Conferences. He’s dedicated to advancing expertise and mentoring next-generation expertise within the subject.
IEEE Life Fellow Charles M. Jackson
Director, Division IV
 
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Jackson’s work has helped advance many house purposes, together with communications, radar, and Earth remark. Earlier than he retired in Might 2021, he targeted on specialised microwave and millimeter-wave applied sciences. He labored at a number of communication corporations, making digital receivers and driving developments within the subject of phased array radar. He additionally labored within the aerospace trade, aiding with space-based packages, supporting technical improvement, and testing the power and safety of bodily and information-based property in opposition to organizational threats.
Jackson is an lively member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Microwave Idea and Strategies (MTT-S) societies and has been printed within the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Management journal. He’s a previous chair of the IEEE Conferences Committee, and he held quite a few positions in Area 6 (Western U.S.) and its MTT-S chapter. He holds 5 patents and has printed greater than 30 articles, together with items featured within the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Whereas recovering from most cancers, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind devices, notably Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets. He now makes use of 3D printing to make the devices and discusses his work in his Microwaves and Woodwinds presentation as a member of the MTT-S Audio system Bureau. His work has helped advance the sphere’s understanding of acoustical instrument design.
IEEE Fellow H. Alan Mantooth
Director, Division II
 
 College of Arkansas
All through his profession, Mantooth has been devoted to enabling better efficiencies that cut back greenhouse fuel emissions inside the energy-generation and transportation industries.
He obtained bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in electrical engineering from the College of Arkansas, in addition to a doctoral diploma from Georgia Tech.
Mantooth presently leads the UA Energy Group, a multidisciplinary workforce of researchers engaged on next-generation electrical automobiles, renewable vitality programs, grid infrastructure, and cybersecurity. The UA Energy Group obtained an R&D Journal R&D 100 Award for its 250-kilowatt all-silicon carbide motor drive for hybrid plane.
Amongst his obligations on the energy group, Mantooth oversees amenities for semiconductor manufacturing, energy electronics packaging, and medium voltage testing. He makes a speciality of energy electronics for grid modernization, car electrification, and excessive atmosphere electronics in a spread of purposes. His areas of focus embody semiconductor gadget design and modeling, analog and mixed-signal IC design, CAD strategies, energy electronics design and packaging, and cybersecurity. The units, circuits, and programs assist enhance energy grid efficiency and shield the grid from cyberattacks. Additionally they have business purposes for electrified plane, passenger automobiles, and heavy gear.
A longtime member and previous president of the IEEE Energy Electronics Society, Mantooth obtained the society’s Modeling and Management Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE Transactions on Energy Electronics Prize Paper Award, each in 2019.
Mantooth, named a Tech Titan of 2021 by Arkansas Cash & Politics journal, is an inductee of the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineering.
