IEEE Activities

IEEE Board of Directors and Committees

  • IEEE Board of Directors (2015, 2010-2012, Director)
  • IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015)
  • IEEE Division Director (2010-2012)
  • IEEE Assembly (2010-2012, Member)
  • IEEE Nominations and Appointments Committee (2014, Member)
  • IEEE Strategic Planning AdHoc Committee (2016, 2014, Member)
  • IEEE Global Strategy AdHoc Committee (2016, Member)
  • IEEE Public Visibility Committee (2012-13, Member)

Members Activities and Recognitions

  • IEEE Entrepreneurship Committee (2019-2020, Member)
  • IEEE Italy Section Entrepreneurship Committee (2019-2020, Chair)
  • IEEE R8 Award Committee (2019-2020, Member)
  • Program Chair of the IEEE Sections Congress (2017)
  • Advisory Board Member of the IEEE Sections Congress (2020)
  • IEEE MGA Strategic Direction and Environmental Assessment Committee (2016, Member)
  • Nominator of the IEEE Milestone for “Dadda’s Multiplier”, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2016)
  • IEEE Regional Activities Board Transnational Committee (2005, Member)
  • IEEE Awards Board (2017-2019, Member)
  • IEEE Awards Board Technical Field Awards Council (2017-2019, Chair; 2014-2015, 2006-2008, Member)
  • IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award Committee (2014-2015, 2006-2008, Chair; 2016, 2013, 2009, 2005, Member)
  • IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award Committee (2002-2004, Member)
  • Founding Chair of the IEEE Systems Council Italy Chapter (2008-2009)
  • Founding Chair of the IEEE Biometrics Council Italy Chapter (2009)
  • Vice-President for Members Activities of the IEEE Neural Networks Society (2003-04)
  • IEEE Student Branch at Politecnico di Milano (1993-2004, Counselor)
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society North-Italy Chapter (1993-2000, Secretary)
  • IEEE Computer Society North-Italy Chapter (1991-2000, Secretary)

Technical Activities

  • IEEE Systems Council President (2020-2021)
  • IEEE Technical Activities Board (2015, Chair; 2016, 2014, 2010-2012, 2006-2007, Member)
  • IEEE TAB Strategic Planning Committee (2016, Chair; 2011-14, Member)
  • IEEE TAB-SPC Global Perspectives Ad-Hoc Committee (2013, Member)
  • IEEE TAB-SPC Subcommittee on Community Initiation (2013, Chair)
  • IEEE TAB Financial Transparency AdHoc Committee (2016-2014, Member)
  • President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006-07)
  • IEEE Systems Council Administrative Committee (2019, 2008-2011, Member)
  • IEEE Biometrics Council Administrative Committee (2008-2009, Member)
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Administrative Committee (2006-07, Chair; 2008, 2002-2005, Member)
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administrative Committee (1998-2005, Member)
  • IEEE Technical Committee on Environmental Engineering (Founder and 2014-2019 Co-Chair)
  • IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council – Technical Activity Committee on Defect Tolerance (1995-2006, Chair)
  • Technical Committee on Security and Contraband Detection of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (2002-13, Founding Co-Chair)
  • IEEE TAB NTDC Technical Committee on Biometrics (2005-08, Vice Chair)
  • Technical Activity Committee on Defect Tolerance of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Committee (1995-2006, Co-Chair)
  • Technical Committee on Intelligent Measurement Systems of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (1997-2002, Founding Co-Chair)

Conferences

  • World Forum on Internet of Things (2016, 2015, General Co-Chair)
  • IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (2013, General Co-Chair)
  • IEEE-INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2010, Program Chair; 2009, 2000, Program Co-Chair)
  • IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (2009, 2004, General Chair/Co-Chair; 2019, 2010, Program Co-Chair)
  • IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (2011, Honorary Chair; 2009, General Chair)
  • IEEE Smart World Congress (2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, Steering Committee Member)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (2000, General Co-Chair)
  • IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (now in the eighteenth year)

Publications

  • Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-2019)
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2015-2018)
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2016-2019)
  • IEEE Publications Services and Products Board (2013, Member)
  • IEEE PSPB Strategic Planning Committee (2013, 2009-2011, Member)
  • IEEE TAB/PSPB Products & Services Committee (2013, 2008-2009, 2005-2006, Member)
  • Editor-at-Large of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (2010-2014)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE eLearning Library, formerly called IEEE Expert Now (2008-2013)
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2008-2010)
  • Vice-President for Publications of the IEEE Systems Council (2008-2011)
  • Vice-President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (2002-2004)
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2001-2004)
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (1997-2002)

Educational Activities

  • Co-Director of the IEEE Winter School on Internet of Things (2015, 2016)
  • IEEE Biometrics Certification Committee (2008-2013, Chair)
  • EAB/SA Standards Education Committee (2008, Member)
  • Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council (2008-2009)
  • Liaison of the IEEE Educational Activity Board to the IEEE TAB PSPB Product and Services Committee (2008)
  • Director of the International Master's Degree Program on Soft Computing for Industrial Applications (2003-04), University of Milan (Italy), with the support of the IEEE Neural Networks Society, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, INNS - International Neural Networks Society, and ENNS - European Neural Network Society
  • Scientific Co-Director of the NATO-IEEE-INNS-ENNS Advanced Study Institute on Neural Networks for Instrumentation, Measurement, and Related Industrial Applications (2001)

Awards

  • IEEE TAB Hall of Honor (2019) for having promoted holistic cooperation across the entire IEEE.
  • IEEE Italy Section Distinguished Service Award (2019)
  • IEEE Ambassador (2012), to increase the awareness about IEEE in scientific and technological communities and the general public, in recognition of excellence in research, education, and service
  • Admitted to the IEEE-HNK (2011), the honor society of the IEEE, for excellence in research, education, and service to the communities of information and communication technology and the related disciplines
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Meritorious Service Award (2009)
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award (2008)
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002)
  • IEEE Fellow (2001)

Memberships and Service

  • IEEE Biometrics Council
  • IEEE Communications Society
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
  • IEEE Control Systems Society
  • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
  • IEEE Industry Applications Society
  • IEEE Industry Electronics Society
  • IEEE Power & Energy Society
  • IEEE Photonics Society (formerly IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society
  • IEEE Systems Council
  • IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
  • IEEE Technical Community on Cloud Computing
  • IEEE Technical Community on Environmental Engineering
  • IEEE Technical Community on Internet of Things
  • IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology
  • IEEE Women in Engineering