IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine - April 2022 - 6

President's Message
by Sam Kwong
Expanding Our Focus,
Forging Synergy, and
Nurturing Talent
D
ear Members of the IEEE
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Society (SMCS),
I wish you a happy, fruitful and
prosperous 2022.
It is my great honor and privilege
to serve you all as 2022-2023 president
of the SMCS. This is a huge privilege
and a tremendous responsibility,
which I can only hope to fulfill. I am
highly grateful for the trust in me and
the many messages of encouragement
and support that I have received since
I have been elected.
As president of the SMCS, I hope
to use my experience, dedication, and
vision to serve our community in the
upcoming year. I will dedicate my best
efforts to serve the SMCS in key areas,
such as conducting high-quality
technical activities and expanding
our focus on socially valuable niche
areas, identifying means to monitor
the quality of SMCS-sponsored
technical committees in cybernetics,
working with vice president (VP)
membership to recruit and engage
with new members, empowering
conference quality through enabling
Technical Committee chairs and
members to work with conference
organizers, promoting synergy with
industry and creating cutting-edge
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SMCS in 2016-2017. His achievements
have been recognized by the IEEE
2008 Norbert Wiener Award and the
IEEE 2015 Computational Intelligence
Pioneer's Award.
I would like to thank Junior Past
President Imre Rudas for his leadership
over the last two years amid
unprecedented challenges, particularly
the disruptions brought by the
COVID-19 pandemic. Although there
were no more in-person ExCom and
BoG meetings after the 2020 meeting
in Mexico, the BoG participated in our
Society more actively through virtual
meetings under his leadership. Even
more impressive was the introduction
of Associate VP positions and the Executive
Assistant position.
Thanks to Vladimir Marik for his
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technological knowledge to support
social and economic progress, and
nurturing talent to be the future leaders
of our society.
I want to thank all of our Society
members and volunteers for their
continuous support, service, and
dedication to the SMCS. I am truly
grateful for your contribution of expertise
and valuable time for our Society
and our members. In particular,
I would also like to thank the members
of the SMCS Executive Committee
(ExCom) and Board of Governors
(BoG) for their help and support
throughout the past two years and
for their dedicated service.
In particular, I would like to thank
our outgoing ExCom and BoG members.
My sincere thanks go to Dimitar
Feliv for his extraordinary contributions
to the Society as president of the
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excellent contributions to the Society.
Marik has served as the VP
of Organization and Planning. He
developed and regularly evaluated
our Operational Plans and Strategic
Plan in 2022-2027 and consolidated
the Constitution and Bylaws in cooperation
with the IEEE Headquarters
and others.
My appreciation also goes to
Andreas Nürnberger for his essential
contributions to conferences and meetings.
With his hard work and those of
our committee members and conference
organizers, many conferences are
reviewed, approved, and conducted
successfully every year.
Thanks to Feiyue Wang, the VP
of Human-Machine Systems, for his
vital help to technical committees'
chairmen in organizing conferences,
workshops, seminars, and special
sessions, to further the technical excellence
of the Society. Finally, my
heartiest thank you to Peng Shi, VP
of Publications, who has recently
moved on to the greener pastures of
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions
on Cybernetics.
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