IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - March 2018 - 2

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Saraju P. Mohanty
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering,
University of North Texas
saraju.mohanty@unt.edu

Peter Corcoran
College of Engineering and Informatics,
National University of Ireland,
Galway
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SenIor eDItorS
ce Societal Impacts
Katina Michael
University of Wollongong
katina@uow.edu.au

16 ConfErEnCE rEports

hardware technology for ce
Anirban Sengupta
Indian Institute of Technology
Indore
asengupt@iiti.ac.in

18 futurE dIrECtIons
106 BIts VErsus ElECtrons
108 thE art of storagE

Future-Directions
Activities
Tom Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
tom@tomcoughlin.com

ce conferences and
Industry Linkages
Stephen Dukes
Imaginary Universes LLC.
stephendukes@ieee.org

emerging ce technology
and Industry Linkages
Pallab Chatterjee
Media & Entertainment
Technologies
pallab@mandetech.com

home Automation
and networking
Stu Lipoff
IP Action Partners LLC
stu@ipaction.com

Innovation and
entrepreneurship
Tom Wilson
Tandem Launch Inc., Montreal
tomwilson@ieee.org

Special Sections
Himanshu Thapliyal
University of Kentucky
hthapliyal@uky.edu

executIve eDItorS

111 hardwarE mattErs
115 produCt safEty pErspECtIVEs
118 markEt-BasEd analysEs
119 Book rEVIEw

ce chapter Activities
and events editor
Robin Bradbeer
Pearl Technologies Ltd,
Hong Kong
rsbradbeer@gmail.com

Internet of things and
ce conferences
Soumya Kanti Datta
EURECOM Research Center
soumya-kanti.datta@eurecom.fr

user Interaction and
Augmented reality
Fabrizio Lamberti
Politecnico di Torino
fabrizio.lamberti@polito.it

ce conferences editor
and Automotive ce
Bernard Fong
Automotive Parts and Accessory
Systems R&D Centre
bfong@ieee.org

neuromorphic computing and
emerging Memory
Helen (Hai) Li
Duke University
hai.li@duke.edu
ce news and events editor
Konstantin Glasman
Saint Petersburg State University of
Film and Television
k.glasman@gmail.com

ASSocIAte eDItorS
cyberphysical Systems and
big Data
Shiyan Hu
Michigan Technological University
shiyan@mtu.edu
Theocharis Theocharides
University of Cyprus
ttheocharides@ucy.ac.cy
Signal Processing technology
for ce
Animesh Kumar
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay
animesh@ee.iitb.ac.in

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consumer Audio technologies
Vincent Wang
DTS Inc., Singapore
Technology Center
vincent.wang@dts.com
video and Multimedia
technologies
Euee S. Jang
Hanyang University
Seoul, Korea
profjang@gmail.com

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communication technology
for ce
Bob Frankston
IEEECEMag@bob.ma
Xavier Fernando
Ryerson University
fernando@ee.ryerson.ca
Niranjan Ray
KIIT University,
Bhubaneswar, India
rayniranjan@gmail.com
Automotive ce
Sergio Saponara
University of Pisa
sergio.saponara@unipi.it
Arslan Munir
Kansas State University
amunir@ksu.edu
Intellectual Property (IP) corner
Susanne Wende
Noerr LLP
Susanne.Wende@noerr.com
Smart and connected health care
Hitten Zaveri
Yale University
hitten.zaveri@yale.edu

Security and Privacy
Hyoungshick Kim
Sungkyunkwan
University
hyoung@skku.edu

Young Professionals
Abdullah S. Almuttiri
Nokia Al-Saudia, Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia
a.s.a@ieee.org

Jong-Hyouk Lee
Sangmyung University
hurryon@gmail.com
Artificial Intelligence and
Machine-Learning technology
for ce
Madhavi Ganapathiraju
University of Pittsburgh
madhavi@pitt.edu
Amit K. Mishra
University of Cape Town
akmishra@ieee.org

ce Products, books,
and technologies
Dhruva Ghai
Oriental University
dhruvaghai@orientaluniversity.in
Wahab Almuhtadi
Algonquin College
walmuhtadi@yahoo.com

hardware technology
for ce
Fatemeh Tehranipoor
San Francisco State University
sara.tehranipoor@gmail.com
energy-efficient Design
for ce
Sudeep Pasricha
Colorado State University
sudeep@colostate.edu
Shanq-Jang Ruan
National Taiwan University
of Science and Technology
(NTUST), Taiwan
sjruan@mail.ntust.edu.tw
cyberinfrastructure and
cloud computing
Muhammad K. Khan
King Saud University
mkhurram@ksu.edu.sa
Deepak Puthal
University of Technology Sydney
deepak.puthal@uts.edu.au
Power Supply and
Management in ce
Santanu Mishra
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur
santanum@iitk.ac.in
Bijaya K. Panigrahi
Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi
bkpanigrahi@ee.iitd.ac.in
emerging ce technology
and Industry Linkages
Upasna Vishnoi
Marvell Semiconductor Inc.
vishnoiupasna@gmail.com
ce news and events
Ezendu Ariwa
University of Bedfordshire
ezzyariwa@yahoo.co.uk

ce education and outreach
Joseph Wei
SJW Consulting Inc.
joseph.wei@ieee.org

Digital Imaging
technologies
Petronel Bigioi
FotoNation Ltd., Galway
pbigioi@fotonation.com

Mike Borowczak
University of Wyoming
mborowcz@uwyo.edu

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University of Kent
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