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IEEE UK and Ireland Section | 2024 Chapter, Council and Affinity Group Election Results

IEEE encourages an orderly and regular turnover of officers as a routine feature of IEEE volunteerism to ensure a healthy flow of new ideas and invigoration of all organisational units.

Under the IEEE MGA Operations Manual, all IEEE organisational units (including Sections, Chapters, Councils and Affinity Groups) are required to run open and transparent elections of officers every two years, with a volunteer Elections Committee established, a Call for Nominations circulated to all eligible voting members followed by Electronic Voting via eBallot.

During 2024, 24 Organisational Units (Chapters, Councils, Affinity Groups) to date who report to the IEEE UK and Ireland Section have successfully completed elections for OU Leadership.

We would like to congratulate these Organisational Units for successfully undertaking this process, which facilitated extensive engagement with their members over a number of months. This process facilitated members to be actively involved in nominating and electing their OU leadership.

We would like to acknowledge and thank the officers whose terms have ended and encourage them to continue their IEEE volunteer journey by exploring other opportunities and roles to contribute to the IEEE community whether at Chapter, Council, Affinity Group, Section, Region or Society level.

We would also like to acknowledge and express our appreciation to the volunteer Chapter, Council and Affinity Group Election Members who issued the Call for Nominations, prepared the Slate of Candidates, launched the Election Process via eBallot and reported the Election Results.

Election Results

The Election Results available to date are summarised below:

We would like to congratulate the elected officers and wish them well in their term. We would like to thank all candidates who self-nominated and encourage them to continue to volunteer with their organisational unit.

IEEE Organisational UnitElected OfficersTerm
UK and Ireland SectionSection Secretary: Mona Jaber
Section Treasurer: Hoa Le-Minh
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society ChapterChair: Julien Le Kernec (2nd Term)
Voting Deadline Vice-Chair & Secretary 27 December 2024
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
AP-S/MTT Joint ChapterChair: Qammer Hussain Abbasi (2nd Term)
Vice-Chair: Masood Ur Rehman (2nd Term)
Secretary/Treasurer: Hasan Abbas - (2nd Term)
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Communications Society ChapterChair: Nauman Aslam (2nd Term)
Vice-Chair: Sean McGrath (2nd Term)
Treasurer: Hoa Le Minh (2nd Term)
Secretary: Yulei Wu
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Computational Intelligence Society ChapterChair: Hujun Yin (2nd Term)
Secretary/Treasurer: Mufti Mahmud (2nd Term)
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Control Systems Society ChapterChair: Ibrahim Kucukdemiral
Vice-Chair: Kok Yew (Mark) Ng
Secretary/Treasurer: Marion McAfee
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Education Society ChapterVoting Deadline: early January 202501 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Electron Devices Society ChapterChair: Abdullah Al-Khalidi
Vice-Chair: Antonio Lombardo
Secretary/Treasurer: Radu Sporea
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Electronics Packaging and Reliability Joint ChapterChair: Stoyan Stoyanov (2nd term)01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Engineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyChair: Richard Gault (2nd term)
Vice-Chair: Julien Le Kernec
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society ChapterChair: Raffaella Guida (2nd Term)
Vice-Chair: Jefersson Alex dos Santos (2nd Term)
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Intelligent Transportation Systems Society ChapterChair: Milan Lovric
Vice-Chair: Valentina Donzella
Secretary: Mona Jaber
Treasurer: Ciaran Eising
August 2024 - 31 December 2025
Magnetics Society ChapterChair: Liam O'Brien (2nd Term)
Vice-Chair: Nicola Morley (2nd Term)
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Nanotechnology CouncilVoting Deadline: 26 December 202401 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Power & Energy Society ChapterChair: Daniel Donaldson
Vice-Chair: Nan Chen
Secretary: Rosa Serrano
Treasurer: Airam Perez Guillen
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Power Electronics SocietyChair: Sheng Wang
Vice-Chair: Jingzhe Wu
Secretary/Treasurer: Jinlei Chen (2nd Term)
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Photonics Society ChapterChair: Filipe Ferreira
Vice-Chair: Richard Pitwon
Secretary/Treasurer: Qiandong Zhuang
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Robotics and Automation Society ChapterChair: Hongmei He (2nd Term)
Vice-Chair: Amir Aly
Secretary: Luis Figueredo
Treasurer: Anh Nguyen
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Sensors CouncilChair: Valentina Donzella
Vice-Chair: Paul Bermingham
Secretary/Treasurer: Qiandong Zhuang
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Society on Social Implications of Technology ChapterChair: Miriam Cunningham (2nd Term)
Vice-Chair: Ali Hessami
08 May '2024 - 31 December 2025
Systems CouncilChair: Farhad Fassihi Tash
Vice-Chair: Idongesit Ekerete
Secretary: Dinesh Chacko
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Systems Man and Cybernetics ChapterChair: Huiru (Jane) Zheng (2nd Term)
Vice-Chair: Idongesit Ekerete (2nd Term)
Secretary: Matias Garcia-Constantino (2nd Term)
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Signal Processing Society ChapterChair: James Hopgood
Vice-Chair: Lu Gank
Secretary/Treasurer: George Ntavazlis Katsaros
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society ChapterChair: Katy Tant (2nd term)
Vice-Chair: Andrew Feeney (2nd term)
Secretary: Kwok-Ho Lam
Treasurer: Andrew Rei
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Vehicular Technology Society ChapterChair: S. M. Riazul Islam
Vice-Chair: Tianjie Zou
Secretary/Treasurer: ASM Ashraf Mahmud
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Young Professionals Affinity GroupChair: Masood Ur Rehman
Vice-Chair: Aslam Sulaimalebbe
Secretary: Jieun Song
Date of election - 31 December 2025

Outgoing Officers based on Election Process

The Section would like to thank the following officers for their service to the Section and its OUs and wish them well in continuing their IEEE Volunteer Journey:

IEEE Organisational UnitElected OfficersTerm
UK and Ireland SectionSection Secretary: Saumya Kareem Reni
Section Treasurer: Matthew Gream
31 December 2024
Communications Society Chapter Secretary: Mohsin Raza31 December 2024
Control Systems Society ChapterChair: Krishna BusawonSeptember 2024
Education Society ChapterChair: Zeyad Al-Shibaany
Vice Chair: Jorge Varela Barreras
31 December 2024
Electron Devices Society ChapterChair: Radu Sporea
Vice-Chair: Koen Buisman
31 December 2024
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society ChapterVice-Chair: Christopher James
Secretary: Haider Raza
Treasurer: Saugat Bhattacharyya
31 December 2024
Nanotechnology CouncilChair: Lei Xu
Secretary: Lee Crudgington
31 December 2024
Power & Energy Society ChapterChair: Eduardo Audiche
Vice-Chair: Jelena Ponocko
Secretary: Lee Crudgington
Treasurer: Rosa Serrano
31 December 2024
Power Electronics Society ChapterChair: Bing Ji
Treasurer: Peter Wilson
31 December 2024
Photonics Society ChapterSecretary: Lee Crudgington31 December 2024
Robotics and Automation Society ChapterSecretary: Zhenhong Li
Treasurer: Joaquin Carrasco
31 December 2024
Sensor CouncilChair: Paul Wright
Vice-Chair: Liudmila Khokhlova
31 December 2024
Signal Processing Society ChapterChair: Mark Plumbley
Secretary: Umar Raz
31 December 2024
Systems CouncilVice-Chair: Roderick Muttram31 December 2024
Young Professionals Affinity GroupChair:Nazila Fough
Vice-Chair: Farid Mouawad South
Secretary: Rajitha De Silva
Treasurer: Koushik Kumar Nundy
August 2024
Vehicular Technology Society ChapterChair: Faisal Tariq31 December 2024

2024 Volunteer Chapter, Council, Affinity Group Election Committees

The Section, Chapters, Council and Affinity Groups would like to thank the following IEEE Members (listed in alphabetical order based on surname) who volunteered on Chapter, Council, Affinity Group Election Committees during 2024:

Al Al HinaiJianing Li Roland Saam
Abdullah Al-KhalidiShancang Li Nagham Saeed
Richard AllmendingerJun LiuByran Shutes
Zeyad Al-ShibaanyYuchen LiuNihal Sinnadurai
Paul BerminghamKelly LoukatouPhillip Siwila
Darwin CaldwellMilan LovricAimin Song
Dinesh Chacko Christopher MarrowsAslam Sulaimalebbe
Vicente ClimenteAndy McStayFrederic Surre
Hugo CruzStephen McVitieFaisal Tariq
Miriam Cunningham Lyudmila MihaylovaJasim Uddin
Julia DietlmeierMaziar Nezhad Jorge Varela Barreras
Mostafa ElsayedDianabasi NkantahKezhi Wang
Chenyang HeDeclan O'LoughlinHui Wang
Mona JaberIbukunoluwa OlushiyanSimon Watson
Bing Ji Richard PentyJiaqi Yan
Visakan KadirkamanathanJelena PonockoJie Zhang
Aryan KaushikArdavan RahimianKit Zhang
Maximilian KerslakeNishal RamadasWei Zhou
Kate KnilSaumya ReniMuhammad Zubair
Frank LamosaMarc Rigot