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Members Activities Committee

The Members Activities Committee is responsible for overseeing membership development and members activities and services.

In particular, but not limited to the following, the Members Activities Committee shall:

• prepare, develop, and recommend plans for member activities,
• stimulate the submission of and review proposals for members activities,
• make recommendations on matters concerning member activities, including proposals for new members activities and their regulations.

Members Activities Committee develops, promotes and oversees all activities and services for members.

• Chapters Sub-Committee overviews and promotes the chapters development and activities,
• Distinguished Lecturers Program Sub-Committee overviews and promotes knowledge dissemination by providing distinguished lecturers to Chapters events.
• Women in Computational Intelligence Sub-Committee develops and promotes activities to ensure equal opportunities to both genders in the Society¡¦s life and the computational intelligence arena,
• GOLD Sub-Committee develops and promotes activities to support scientists and professionals who recently graduated (Graduates Of the Last Decade),
• Student Activities Sub-Committee develops activities for undergraduate and graduate student members of IEEE CIS,
• Industry Liaison Sub-Committee develops and promotes activities to increase the involvement of industries and professionals in the computational intelligence arena,
• The Travel Grants Administrator looks after travel grants to conferences and other activities,
• History Sub-Committee collects and displays the history of computational intelligence and the Society,
• Senior Members Sub-Committee promotes the elevation of excellent CIS members to the IEEE Senior Member grade.

Fellows Committee evaluates, on the behalf of CIS in the IEEE evaluation process, the nominations of outstanding IEEE Senior Members in computational intelligence for elevation to the IEEE Fellow grade.

Awards Committee evaluates the nominations of outstanding CIS members for CIS awards.

Members Activities Committee

Slawo Wesolkowski, Chair (2009-2010) DRDC Ottawa, Ontario, Canada email: s.wesolkowski .a_t. ieee.org

Rami Abielmona, Chapters Subcommittee Chair (2009-2010) Larus Technologies 58 Antares Drive, Unit 1 Ottawa, ON, Canada phone: +1 613 244 8916 fax: +1 613 244 9941 email: rabielmo .a_t. ieee.org www: www.larus.com

Damien Coyle, GOLD Committee Chair (2009-2010) Computing and Engineering University of Ulster Derry, NI BT48 7JL, UK phone: (+44 2871) 375 170 fax: (+44 2871) 375 470 email: dh.coyle .a_t. ulster.ac.uk www: isrc.ulster.ac.uk/Staff/DCoyle/Contact.html

Keeley A. Crockett, Travel Grants Administrator Department of Computing and Maths Manchester Metropolitan University John Dalton Building, Chester Street Manchester M1 5GD, UK phone: 0161 247 1497 fax: 0161 247 1483 email: K.Crockett .a_t. mmu.ac.uk www: www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/RESEARCH/Intelgrp/keeley.htm

Bruno N. Di Stefano, Webinars Sub-Committee Chair (2009-2010) Nuptek Systems Ltd Canada email: b.distefano .a_t. ieee.org www: sites.google.com/site/brunodistefano/

Pablo A. Estevez (2008-2010) Department of Electrical Engineering Universidad de Chile Av Tupper 2007 Santiago, Chile 8370451, Chile phone: (+56 2) 978 4207 fax: (+56 2) 672 0162 email: pestevez .a_t. cec.uchile.cl www: www.cec.uchile.cl/~pestevez/

Haibo He, E-Letter Manager (2009-2010) Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Burchard 412 Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA phone: (201)216-8057 fax: (201)216-8246 email: hhe .a_t. stevens.edu www: www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~hhe/

Yaochu Jin Department of Computing University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK phone: +44(0)1483 686037 fax: +44(0)1483 686051 email: yaochu.jin .a_t. surrey.ac.uk www: www2.surrey.ac.uk/computing/people/yaochu_jin/

Robert Kozma CLION, FedEx Institute of Technology Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Memphis 373 Dunn Hall Memphis, TN 38152, USA phone: (+1 901)-678-2497 fax: (+1 901)-678-2480 email: rkozma .a_t. memphis.edu www: cnd.memphis.edu

Dipti Srinivasan Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering National University of Singapore 4 Engineering Drive 3 117576 Singapore phone: (+65) 6516 6544 fax: (+65) 6779 1103 email: dipti .a_t. nus.edu.sg www: www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/elesd/index.htm

Jeen-Shing Wang, CIS Website Manager Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University Tainan 70101, Taiwan phone: +886-6-275-7575 ext. 62378 fax: +886-6-236-9418 email: jeenshin .a_t. mail.ncku.edu.tw

Basak Yüksel Researcher Advanced Technology R&D Center Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan email: basak .a_t. ieee.org

Piero P. Bonissone, Fellows Committee Chair (2010) Chief Scientist, Coolidge Fellow General Electric Global Research,Computing and Decision Sciences Building K1- Room 5C32A, One Research Rd. Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA phone: (+1 518) 387 5155 fax: (+1 518) 387 5817 email: bonissone .a_t. crd.ge.com www: www.rpi.edu/~bonisp/

Marios M. Polycarpou (2008-2010) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Avenue, PO Box 20537 Nicosia 1678, Cyprus phone: (+357) 2289 2252 fax: (+357) 2289 2260 email: mpolycar .a_t. ucy.ac.cy www: www.ece.ucy.ac.cy/en/people/mPolycarpou.html