Activities

IEEE

  • Member, IEEE Spectrum Advisory Board. Appointed by the Editor. 2006-2007. 2008-2009.

  • IEEE Spectrum Representative to the Publications Services and Products Board (PSPB). Appointed by the Vice President of PSPB. 2007. 2008.

  • Editor, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter. September, 2007-present.
    • Issue Topics:
    • "The DRAM Story," Winter, 2008
    • "What Should an Educated Person Know About Computers, featuring Brian Kernighan," Spring, 2008
    • "Low Power ICs, Featuring the Work of Eric Vittoz," Summer, 2008
    • "Gordon Bell's Law of Computer Classes and Class Formation," Fall, 2008
    • "The First Microprocessor of Faggin, Hoff, Mazor, and Shima," Winter, 2009

  • Co-Editor, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter. November, 2005-September, 2007.
    • Issue Topics:
    • "The Gears of Genius: Barrie Gilbert and Analog Circuits," Fall, 2007 PDF
    • "The 40th Anniversary of Amdahl's Law," Summer, 2007 PDF
    • "The Origins of the Integrated Circuit," Spring, 2007 PDF
    • "The Impact of Dennard's Scaling Theory," Winter, 2007 PDF
    • "The Technical Impact of Moore's Law," September, 2006 PDF

  • Executive Editor, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Newsletter. Elected to two three-year terms: 2001-2003. 2004-2006.

  • Member, IEEE Technical Activities Board Newsletter Committee. 2001-2006.

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Newsletter. 1995-2000.

  • Elected Member, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Board of Governors. January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2005.

  • Technical Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. 2002. 2006. 2007.

  • Technical Reviewer, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting. 2003.

  • Attended 2007 IEEE Panel of Editors Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 27-28, 2007.

  • Attended 2006 IEEE Panel of Editors Meeting, Montreal, Canada. March 31-April 1, 2006.

  • Attended 2005 IEEE Panel of Editors Meeting, New Orleans, LA. April 8-9, 2005.

  • Attended 2004 IEEE Panel of Editors Meeting, Boston, MA. April 23-24, 2004.
    • American Physical Society (APS)

  • Elected Member-at-Large, APS Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) Executive Committee, 2008-2011.
  • Appointed to the APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development (CCPD), 2006-2008.
  • Coordinated the APS Professional Development Resource Guide, which is posted here.
  • Member, APS Women in Physics Speakers' List
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    Conference Committees

  • Session Chair, 2005 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Design (GLSVLSI), Chicago, IL, April 17-19, 2005.

  • Session Chair and Conference Organizer, Special Symposium on Lasers and Electro-Optics in Semiconductor Testing at the 2003 LEOS Annual Meeting on October 26-30, 2003.
    • National Engineers Week

  • Visit Science Classes at East Ridge Middle School, Ridgefield, CT. May 30, 2007.
  • Visit 8th Grade Science Class at Greenwich Catholic School, Greenwich, CT. May 11, 2007.
  • Visit 7th and 8th Grade Science Classes at Ridgefield Academy, Ridgefield, CT. May 1, 2006.
  • Visit 6th Grade Science Class at East Ridge Middle School, Ridgefield, CT. January, 2006.
  • Visit Science Classes at Scarsdale Middle School, Scarsdale, NY. March 1, 2001.

  • Visit AP Physics Class at Chappaqua High School, Chappaqua, NY. March 8, 2000.
    • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

  • Co-host, CMOS Design Forum, the VLSI Design Department weekly seminar series. 2001-present.

  • Visions Colloquium Steering Committee: Visions of a Changing World: Science, Information, and Society. 2003-2006.

  • Research Advisory Committee. Systems Department Representative. Coordinate selection of Ph.D. Fellows and Faculty Partnership Awards. 2001 - 2003.

  • Technical Assistant to the Systems Department Vice President. 2001.