IEEE Solid-States Circuits Magazine - Fall 2020 - 19

GUEST EDITORIAL

Zeynep Toprak-Deniz

Women in Circuits

At the 2020 International Solid-State
Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the
Women in Circuits (WiC) Committee
hosted the first-ever Rising Stars workshop for graduate and undergraduate
students as well as young professionals who have graduated within the last
two years and are interested in learning how to excel in academic and industry careers in computer science and
electrical engineering. Twenty individuals were selected to attend a special dinner featuring a keynote speech
by Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan-
already a risen star-and a mentoring
session with committee members. The
event also included two panels. The
" Rising to the Top in Industry " career
panel touched upon topics including
mentoring, setting career goals, filing
patents, and management versus technical tracks. The " Navigating the Assistant Professorship " panel addressed
topics related to applying for a faculty
position, tenure review, and managing
day-to-day life in academia. The panels were open to all ISSCC 2020 attendees and the public and attracted more
than 300 participants.
This Fall 2020 issue of IEEE SolidState Circuits Magazine on WiC follows the tradition of previous issues
since 2017, enabling more exposure
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The " Rising to
the Top in Industry " career panel
touched upon
topics including
mentoring, setting
career goals, filing
patents, and management versus
technical tracks.

to female leaders through exposition of their work in circuits on a
variety of important topics.
The following IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society members were asked to
contribute tutorials for this issue:
■■ Jane Gu, associate professor at the
University of California, Davis,
and member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the
IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated
Circuits Symposium, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
and ISSCC, is an associate editor
of IEEE Microwave and Wireless
Components Letters and VLSI Journal of Integration and guest editor
of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
■■ Ulkuhan Guler, assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is a senior member of JSSC
and serves on the CICC TPC.

Alicia Klinefelter, senior research scientist in the ASIC and VLSI research
group at NVIDIA, has served on the
ISSCC TPC since 2018.
■■ Yan Li, vice president for memory
design at Western Digital, leading
the design of advanced 3D NAND
as well as other nonvolatile memories and new innovation initiatives, serves on the ISSCC Machine
Learning TPC.
■■ Rabia Yazicigil, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Boston University and visiting scholar
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, was vice-chair of the
2020 Rising Stars workshop.
■ ■ Maneesha Yellepeddi, manager
of the Programmable Solutions
Group at Intel, is an alumnus of
the 2020 Rising Stars workshop.
ISSCC 2021 will continue this tradition by hosting another Sunday
evening workshop bringing together
experts in cloud-connected biosensors, advance algorithms, and artificial
intelligence to discuss our preparedness for combating the spread of infectious diseases now and in the future.
The " ICs in PandemICs " panel will
feature recent work on remote patient
monitoring and data analysis with
related security and privacy concerns.
I hope to see you all there!

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