Sirin Tekinay

Candidate's Statement

My goal is to promote diversity and active participation in the Communications Society. I will work to enrich the information, networking, research, mentoring, and career-building resources of our Society. I will advance online initiatives to provide more engineers with efficient access to ComSoc resources. I believe the Communications Society can and will be the flagship in the rapid evolution of our field, facilitating new interactions between academia and industry, between different disciplines of study, and between members of vastly varying demographics. My priority is to increase attendance by streamlining our conferences, and increase readership by introducing new tools for our high-quality publications.

Biography

Sirin Tekinay received her Ph.D. degree from George Mason University in 1994. She is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she leads the adaptive wireless architecture team. Before joining academia, she held research posts at Nortel and Bell Labs. She holds seven patents on enabling technologies for next-generation wireless networks. She has been an enthusiastic contributor to the IEEE. She has organized and chaired symposia and sessions on wireless networking, served on technical program committees of ComSoc conferences, and guest edited special issues of ComSoc publications. She continues to serve on IEEE ComSoc technical committees, and the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, the first online publication of the Society