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This article capabilities IEEE Board of Directors contributors Sergio Benedetto, Jenifer Castillo, and Fred Schindler.
IEEE Lifestyles Fellow Sergio Benedetto
Vice President, E-newsletter Products and services and Merchandise
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Benedetto is a professor emeritus at Politecnico di Torino, in Turin, Italy. His learn in digital communications has contributed to the belief of error-correcting codes, which yield performance cease to the Shannon belief limits and, in maintaining with Benedetto, point out “the astonishing performance” of turbo codes. Benedetto has collaborated with the European Role Agency and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to contain codes that are actually regular for satellite tv for computer communications.
As an active member of the IEEE Communications Society and in positions he has held connected to IEEE publications for more than two decades, Benedetto has considered IEEE’s most worthwhile asset at work—enormous scientists within the IEEE self-discipline of interests spicy to wait on their community as volunteers.
Benedetto has been active in digital communications for more than 40 years. He has coauthored five books and more than 250 papers. His publications have bought more than 20,000 citations. He’s an IEEE Lifestyles Fellow and a member of the Academy of Science of Turin. He has bought reasonably loads of international awards at some stage in his occupation, alongside with the 2008 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Award.
IEEE Senior Member Jenifer Castillo
Director, Region 9: Latin The US
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Castillo is a gross sales and key account supervisor in Puerto Rico for a leading maintenance, restore, and overhaul services provider within the aviation commercial. In her goal, she heads initiatives, alongside with negotiating and executing contracts, and considers customers’ wants whereas prioritizing aviation commercial safety. Or, as Castillo likes to express, she “performs with planes on the sharp island of Puerto Rico.”
A member of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Programs Society and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Castillo has been an active IEEE volunteer for loads of years. She changed into the principle Latina to chair the IEEE Females in Engineering committee, bringing a positive standpoint to the organization. All over her 2021-2022 term, she launched several advantages, alongside with two awards and a world scholarship, whereas nurturing a world volunteer network supporting females’s advancement in science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic fields.
Castillo helped discovered IEEE MOVE Puerto Rico, which is a conveyable version of the IEEE-USA MOVE program that offers communities struggling from pure mess ups with vitality and Web access in areas. The catastrophe response for the period of hurricane Maria, supported by the IEEE Basis, changed into the turning level for the local sections to promote this initiative that enabled volunteers to enhance the Red Noxious’ response and restoration efforts.
Castillo has been a member of the IEEE Alternate Engagement Committee and chair of the IEEE Puerto Rico and Caribbean Allotment. In 2020, she changed into acknowledged with the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Achievement Award for “sustained and prominent achievements in promoting students, IEEE Young Consultants, and IEEE WIE membership style in Latin The US and the Caribbean.” She changed into honored with the IEEE Region 9 Oscar C. Fernández Excellent Volunteer Award in 2020.
IEEE Lifestyles Fellow Manfred “Fred” Schindler
Vice President, Technical Activities
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Schindler has spent his occupation in commercial working on RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave semiconductors. He has led the boost of developed RF semiconductor products for commercial and defense applications. “Taking a expertise from the lab and seeing it via to excessive-volume manufacturing is rewarding,” he says, “critically appealing that nearly all americans carries a instrument the use of the applied sciences we developed.”
A member of the IEEE Microwave Concept and Abilities Society (IEEE MTT-S), Schindler served as its president in 2003. He additionally has served as chair of every the IEEE Conferences Committee and the IEEE Global Microwave Conference. As vice president of Technical Activities, he’s working to beat structural boundaries among established communities to contain sure IEEE’s future steadiness and success.
Schindler holds 11 patents and has printed more than 40 technical articles. He founded the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, and has contributed a column on microwave commercial to IEEE Microwave Magazine since 2011. He bought the 2018 IEEE MTT-S Renowned Provider Award for his efforts benefiting the society and the microwave occupation.
