Alex Gelman
Candidate's Statement
The IEEE Communications Society serves its membership, global industry, and our profession. It is the premier source for information related to communications and networking and a home to professional communities representing academia and industry with a variety of technical interests. ComSoc products and services need to be tailored to the specific needs of our individual members and their professional communities.
If elected I will lead the Society to offer:
- Specialized meetings and conferences serving the needs of professional communities and industry segments
- Top quality journals with high caliber archival content as well as practical applications magazines content for industry practitioners
- State-of-the-art collaboration tools for members to communicate and conduct ComSoc activities online
- Personal presence for members on ComSoc’s web site and ComSoc email alias
- Free online tutorials and webinars on hot topics
I will strive to maintain ComSoc’s position of the IEEE’s globalization leader. In order to help international members integrate into ComSoc and the global workforce I will work hard to:
- Offer instructional material for improving technical writing skills and making effective presentations
- Enhance marketability of engineers by offering engineering certification programs in communications and networking
In order to maintain relevance to the industry ComSoc needs to strategically position standards as part of its technical activities. If elected I will:
- Maintain strong partnership with the IEEE Standards Association
- Work towards harmonizing ComSoc products, e.g., publications and conferences, with IEEE standardization projects
- Insure establishing working relationships between ComSoc Technical Committees and Standards Working Groups
- Provide educational material for engineers on global standards development practices
Affordability of our membership and quality of our services to industrial researchers and industry practitioners, to academic faculty, and to student members globally will be my priority.
Biography
Alexander D. Gelman received his M.E. and Ph.D. (EE) from the City University of New York. Currently he is the Chief Technical Officer of NETovations, LLC, a networking research consulting group. From 1998 to 2007 Alex worked as Chief Scientist at the Panasonic Princeton Laboratory, managing research programs in consumer communications and networking. During 1984-1998 Alex was with Bellcore, lately as Director - Residential Internet Access Architectures Research. Alex has over thirty years of industrial research background. He has numerous publications and several patents. Alex pioneered DSL-based Broadband access and holds some of the earliest DSL system patents, e.g., on xDSL access router.
Alex has served on many IEEE and ComSoc committees, in publications and conferences, e.g., on inaugural steering committees for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and ICME. He co-founded the Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), founded ComSoc Standards Board, and initiated several standardization projects. Alex is past chair of the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, served three terms as ComSoc Vice President and served as Member-at-Large on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Standards Association. Currently Alex is ComSoc’s Director of Standards, and a member of the IEEE Standards Board. Alex is the 2006 winner of the IEEE ComSoc´s Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service Award.
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