Raouf Boutaba
Candidate's Statement
ComSoc’s should play a greater role in addressing professional needs of members, academia and industry worldwide. If elected I will focus on:
- Ensuring that ComSoc continues disseminating the highest quality technical information via conferences, journal/magazine publications and through customized access to on-line content, “live” tutorials, Web-based seminars, and on-line communities
- Increasing industry support by facilitating communications standards development and targeted publications
- Strengthening ComSoc globalization by attracting professionals from developing countries and increasing cooperation with local technical societies worldwide
- Increasing participation by students and women
- Attracting new members through better support to local chapters, expanding the Society’s interdisciplinary activities, and including emerging technical areas such as security, operations and management, converged wireless, optical and Internet technologies, systems, applications and services
My background in industry research and academia combined with my ComSoc experience in technical activities and membership services will enable me to better solicit members’ opinions and serve our Society.
Biography
Raouf Boutaba is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (Canada). He has published over 250 papers in refereed journals and conferences and has two US patents. He is the recipient of the Premier's Research Excellence Award, several Best Paper Awards and other recognitions. In 2007, he received ComSoc’s Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences.
Raouf is active within ComSoc in many capacities: Chair of Kitchener-Waterloo Chapter; Chair of Information Infrastructure TC; founding Chair of Autonomic Communications subcommittee; voting member of Meetings/Conferences Board; and Director of Conference Publications. Previously, he was Director of Related Societies, the first Director of Standards, Vice Chair of Information Infrastructure TC, and a member of the Standards Board and On-line Content Board. Raouf is founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and editor for other journals. He chairs the IM/NOMS steering committee, has organized several conferences, and is a Distinguished Lecturer.
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