Society Awards Committee

Ferdinanda Ponci

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

Ferdinanda Ponci

Biography

Ferdinanda Ponci graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), in 2002. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, (USA), as an Assistant Professor in 2003, and became Associate Professor in 2008. In 2009, she joined the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, where she is currently a Professor for “Monitoring and distributed control for power systems”.

She is currently engaged in research projects on advanced monitoring and low-cost instruments for medium and low voltage active distribution systems. She has published 60+ journal paper, of which 28 on TIM and 130+ conference papers.

She is a Senior Member of the IEEE. She has been a member of the Administration Committee of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) for two terms between 2010 and 2017. She has served the IMS as Vice-President for Education, as Liaison with IEEE Women in Engineering, as Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program, Distinguished Lecturer (May, 2014 thru 12/31/2017), as Conference Treasurer, and as Chair of the Graduate Fellowship Award Committee. She has been elected to the IMS Administration Committee for the term 2019-2022. She has served on Program Committees of IMS conferences, and as a reviewer for TIM and the I&M Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, on Power Delivery, on Smart Grid, and on Industrial Electronics.

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RWTH Aachen University

Germany

Judy Amanor-Boadu

Intel Corporation

United States

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Judy Amanor-Boadu

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Biography

Judy Amanor-Boadu, Ph.D. is an electrical engineer with over ten years of experience in the semiconductor, PC, and battery-charging industries. She currently holds the position of a senior analog engineer at Intel Corporation, where she focuses on power delivery modeling and characterization of Intel Xeon CPU processors for data-center products. She also provides implementation guidelines, performs feasibilities studies, and design verification of current and future generations of Xeon processors, graphics processing units, and accelerators.

She is a strong believer in the power of mentorship and the overall career development of people. During her doctoral studies at Texas A&M University, she served as the mentor for the first all-female autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) team to participate in the AUVSI Robosub competition, where she helped team members develop their practical engineering, project-management, and budgeting skills. She also served as an advisor for the SAE Supermileage and Vex-U teams and cofounded several student organizations, serving as a career resource for both undergraduate and graduate students during her time at Texas A&M University. She currently serves as an academic associate for the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) course at Arizona State University.

She served as the FY16 National Graduate Society of Women Engineers (SWE) webinar coordinator and Texas A&M University SWE mentorship coordinator from 2014 to 2016. During her tenure, she developed programs for both undergraduate and graduate students concerning career paths and job interviews. She also co-organized the first IEEE African workshop on Circuits and Systems in Ghana in 2017, and was a member of both the 2020 I2MTC and the Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics technical program committees. Dr. Amanor-Boadu regularly serves as a reviewer for MDPI and IEEE publications. She is currently piloting a robotics and entrepreneurship program for middle schoolers in Accra, Ghana.

Her current and past research activities include the development of power integrity, lithium-ion battery charging algorithms, power management, energy harvesting, and wireless charging.

Dr. Amanor-Boadu holds the Bachelor of Science degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Affiliation(s)

Intel Corporation

United States

Luca De Vito

Università degli Studi del Sannio

Italy

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Melanie Ooi

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

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Melanie Ooi

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Biography

Melanie Ooi is an emerging researcher and engineering specialist in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Computer Engineering and Computational Intelligence. She is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. While working in close collaboration with several leading multinational electronics companies, she has developed new testing techniques and test data processing methodologies that have been adopted by the industry partners. In the recent years she has also successfully researched on new measurement uncertainty evaluation approaches and frameworks with application to a multitude of science and technology areas (medical research, structural design, mechanical systems modelling, etc.). Her research competence and capability are evident from the extensive and fast growing list of publications, research grants and projects, as well as successfully supervised postgraduate students.

In addition, Associate Professor Ooi was particularly successful in the area of undergraduate and postgraduate education. She introduced several innovations and a well-structured education program enhancing key professional skills and thus increasing work-readiness and employability of engineering graduates that were successfully adopted and implemented by Monash University and RMIT University in their Southeast Asian campuses. They have been strongly supported by multinational electronics companies such as Intel, Freescale Semiconductor and National Instruments.

Her high professional achievements have been acknowledged by several prestigious awards including the Outstanding Young Engineer Award of the Year 2014 from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, 2014 Excellence Award from the International Education Association of Australia, 2011 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council to mention a few.

She is Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society (I&MS); I&M AdCom (2019-2022)|| Young Professional Program Representative (2018)|| Distinguished Lecturer (2016 - December 2017), Distinguished Lecturer and Secretary of the Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Measurement Systems (TC-32) of the IEEE I&MS. She is also Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and UK Chartered Engineer.

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The University of Waikato

New Zealand

Sabrina Grassini

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Salvatore Graziani

Università di Catania

Italy

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Salvatore Baglio

University of Catania

Italy

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Vedran Bilas

University of Zagreb

Croatia

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