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President

Shervin Shirmohammadi

University of Ottawa

Canada

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Shervin Shirmohammadi

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Shervin Shirmohammadi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and after spending 3 years in the industry as a senior architect and project manager, joined as Assistant Professor the same University, where since 2012 he has been a Full Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is Director of the Discover Laboratory, doing research in machine learning-assisted measurements, especially vision-based measurement, IoT measurements, and multimedia and network measurements. The results of his research, funded by more than $28 million from public and private sectors, have led to over 400 publications, over 70 researchers trained at the postdoctoral, PhD, and Master’s levels, 30+ patents and technology transfers to the private sector, and four Best Paper awards. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement, was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement from 2017 to 2021, the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine in 2014 and 2015, and is currently on the latter’s editorial board.

He has been an IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) AdCom member since 2014, currently serves as its Executive Vice President, and was a member of the IEEE I 2 MTC Board of Directors from 2014 to 2016.

Dr. Shirmohammadi is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements”, and recipient of the 2019 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, the 2021 IEEE IMS Distinguished Service Award, and the 2023 IEEE IMS Technical Award “for contributions to the advancement of machine learning-assisted measurements”.

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University of Ottawa

Canada

Executive Vice President

Sergio Rapuano

University of Sannio.

Italy

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Sergio Rapuano

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Sergio Rapuano is Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements (SSD ING-INF / 07) at the Engineering Department of the University of Sannio. Since 2002, the year he entered service at the University of Sannio, in his activity as researcher and coordinator of research activities he worked in the fields of digital signal processing for measurement, characterization of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, design of distributed measurement systems, design of measurement methods and systems for telecommunications, distance learning in the field of electrical and electronic measurements, biomedical measurements, publishing about 270 contributions including journal papers, conference papers, editorials, book chapters and IEEE Standards in collaboration with numerous Italian and foreign authors (228 papers indexed by Scopus). He has participated and coordinated research projects funded by participating in competitive calls at national and international level. Since 2002 he has continuously taught subjects on Electrical and Electronic Measurements within the Bachelor and Master Degree Courses of the Engineering Department. He used to be Chair of the Joint Program Committee of the Bachelor and Master Degree Courses in Electronic Engineering for Automation and Telecommunications from 2017 to 2019. He is currently member of the board of the PhD Course in Information Technologies for Engineering held at the Department of Engineering and Rector’s Delegate to Scientific Research.

He is member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Sociey (IMS), the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS), the IEEE Standards Association, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the Italian Association of Electrotechnics, Electronics, Automation, Informatics and Telecommunications (AEIT) and the Italian Society of Electrical and Electronics Measurement (GMEE) and participates in the activities of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) TC4 'Measurement of Electrical Quantities '. In particular, within IMS he has been Vice President Membership and Vice President Education and is currently Vice President Technical and Standards Activities; he was elected member-at-large of the Administrative Committee for the four-year terms 2017- 2020 and 2021-2024; he is Chair of TC-25 'Medical and Biological Measurements' and Subcommittee Chair of TC-10 'Waveform Generation, Measurement and Analysis'. He participated in the development of four IEEE Standards and he led the development of the IEEE Standard 2414 on 'Jitter, Wander and Phase Noise'. He was several times Guest Editor of the journals 'Computer Standards and Interfaces', 'Measurement' and 'IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement'. He was several times Chair of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Conference and the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, of which he was twice General Co-Chair. He was General Co-Chair of the IEEE Forum on Research Technology for Society and Industry 2021 and the IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference 2022. He was awarded the 2007 Outstanding Young Engineer Award by the IEEE IMS and the Distinguished Service Award by the IEEE Italy Section in 2020.

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University of Sannio.

Italy

Junior Past President

Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, & Electronics

Mexico

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés was born in Puebla, Mexico. He received the B.Sc. degree from the National Politechnique Institute, Mexico, the M.Sc. degree from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (INAOE), and the Ph.D. degree from Texas Tech University, all in electrical engineering. Since 2007 he is at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico, with a current appointment as titular researcher “C”. He has served at INAOE in administrative positions as Academic Representative, Coordinator of the Electronics Department (2015-2016), and Research Director (2016-2017). He is currently member of the National Research System (SNI), level 2. From 1992 to 2007 he was with Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico, in several academic and administrative positions: faculty member, Graduate advisor, Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, Dean of the Engineering School, and University Academic Secretary. From 2002 to 2004 he was president of the National Association of Engineering Schools (ANFEI-MEXICO), and president of the Iberoamerican Association of Academic Engineering Institutions (ASIBEI). In 2006 he received an honorary appointment from Texas Tech University as Academy Member of the Electrical and Computing Engineering Department. He is a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), past president of IEEE Puebla Section, and founder Chair of the IEEE I&MS Puebla Chapter. IIn the last years he has been member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administrative Committee in several positions: Treasurer, Finance VP, President, and current Jr. Past-President. His scientific production to date consists of 56 refereed papers in scientific journals, 10 book chapters, and 150 papers in-extenso in proceedings of international conferences. He has been reviewer in several conferences and research journals, and project evaluator as RCEA member for CONACYT, Mexico. His research areas include signal and image processing, pattern recognition, neural networks, computer vision, instrumentation and sensors.

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National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, & Electronics

Mexico

Senior Past President

Salvatore Baglio

University of Catania

Italy

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Salvatore Baglio

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Salvatore Baglio received the “Laurea” and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively.

Since 1996 he is with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica, University of Catania, where he is currently Full Professor of Instrumentation and Measurement.

Prof. Baglio teaches courses in “measurement theory,” “electronic instrumentations,” and “Micro and nanosensors”.

His research interests are mainly focused on micro and nanotechnologies for sensors and transducers, micro and nanosensors, hysteretic materials for sensors, nonlinear dynamics for transducers, methodologies and integrated devices for energy harvesting.

He has coauthored more than 400 scientific publications including papers in international journals and in proceedings of international conferences, books, chapters in books. He is also co-inventor in international patents.

Prof. Baglio is IEEE Fellow, has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems and for the IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurements, he has also been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Prof. Baglio is currently Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurements. He has been the General co-Chair of IEEE I2MTC 2018 and of IEEE SAS 2016 (SAS Steering Committee (2014-2017)).

Salvo Baglio is an I&M Society AdCom member (2015-2018) where he has served as Video Tutorials EIC (2015-2018), Faculty Course Development Award Selection Committee Member (2015-2016), Vice President Education (2016-2017), Society representative on IEEE Sensor Council AdCom (2017-2019, and the I&M Society AdCom Executive Vice President (2018-2019).

He is currently the Society President (2020-2021).

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University of Catania

Italy

VP Education

Salvatore Graziani

Università di Catania

Italy

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VP Finance

Kristen Donnell

Missouri University of Science & Technology

United States

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VP Membership

Sabrina Grassini

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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VP Publications

Ruqiang Yan

Xi'an Jiaotong University

China

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VP Conferences

Branislav Djokic

National Research Council

Canada

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VP Technical & Standards

Sebastian Yuri Catunda

Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal

Brazil

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Sebastian Yuri Catunda

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Sebastian Yuri Cavalcanti Catunda graduated in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (1993), achieved M.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Paraíba (1996) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (2000) and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications - ENST, Paris. He was a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) from 1998 to 2011. At UFMA, he chaired the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering from 2005 to 2011. In 2011 he joined the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal, where he is currently a full professor of the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation.

With the Brazilian Society of Automation (SBA), he founded the Instrumentation Committee in 2007 and was the society’s secretary of institutional relations from 2015 to 2016. He is Senior Member of IEEE since 2013. He founded in 2013 and presided until 2017, the Joint Chapter IEEE IMS / CASS of Bahia Section. He is a titular researcher, level 1D, in the Microelectronics area of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and member of its Advisory Board from 2012 to 2018. His research interests focus on instrumentation and microelectronics including the topics of sensors, analog and mixed circuits, embedded systems, and data acquisition systems, in which he has published more than 120 conferences and journals papers.

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Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal

Brazil

Treasurer

Helena Geirinhas Ramos

Technical University of Lisbon

Portugal

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