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Asia Pacific Board (APB)Report

Takaya YamazatoDirector - Asia/Pacific Region

Nagoya University, [email protected]

Agenda Welcome and Introduction IEEE ComSoC APB Awards

presented by TAC co-chairs Professor Jianwei Huang and Professor Takahiko Saba

Invited Talk by Prof. Fazirulhisyam Hashim, Malaysia Chapter Chair

APB Committee Report AP RCCC and Sister Society Summit

2016– 2017 Slate of APB OfficersAPB Director Prof. Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan)Past Director Prof. Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Vice DirectorsProf. Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University, Korea)Dr. Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)Assoc. Prof. Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia)

SecretariesProf. Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University, Japan)Dr. Takaya Miyazawa (NICT, Japan)

New York StaffMs. Carol Cronin

Singapore Staff (AP Office)Manager Ms. Fanny SuExecutive Ms. Ewell Tan

IEEE India OfficeProgram Specialist ComSoc & eHealth Mr. Munir Mohammed

2016– 2017 Slate of APB Officers(Committee Chairs)

Technical Affairs Committee (AP Young Researcher Award, AP Outstanding Paper Award, APCC Best Paper Award)(Vice Director (TAC): Prof. Saewoong Bahk)

Prof. Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Prof. Takahiko Saba (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

Meeting & Conference Committee(Vice Director (ISC and MCC) Dr. Sumei Sun)

Prof. Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University, China)

Information Services Committee (Web, AP Newsletter)(Vice Director (ISC and MCC) Dr. Sumei Sun)

Prof. Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)Prof. Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Membership Development Committee (Industry Outreach, Student Outreach)(Vice Director (MDC and CCC) Assoc. Prof. Wei Zhang)

Assoc. Prof. Youngchul Sung (KAIST, Korea)Prof. Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Chapters Coordination Committee (DLT/DSP, Sister Society)(Vice Director (MDC and CCC) Assoc. Prof. Wei Zhang)DLT/DSP Coordinator Prof. Eiji Oki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)Sister Society Prof. Miki Yamamoto (Kansai University, Japan)

Accomplishments 2nd Half-YearDistinguished Lecturer Tours/Speaker Programs

17 DLTs, 7 DSPsNorth America: 5 DLTs and 2 DSPs Latin America: 5 DLT and 2 DSPEurope, Middle-East, Africa: 9 DLTs and 4 DSPs

NewslettersComSoc AP Newsletter No.50 published and distributed at Globecom2016

Awards11th Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award5th Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

2016 HTE Best English-Language Thesis Award (joint award with The Scientific Association for Infocommunications Hungary (HTE) and IEEE Communications Society)

AP Regional Chapter Chair Congress at GLOBECOM 2017, Singaporecoordinate with Sister and Related Societies Meetingdate: 2 days before GLOBECOM 2017

Regional Activities

2016 IEEE ComSoc Chapter Awards Winners of the 2016 Chapter Achievement

Awards Asia/Pacific: Malaysia EMEA: Romania Latin America: Panama North America: Ottawa

Winner of the 2016 Chapter-of-The-Year Award Malaysia

AP Regional Chapter Chair Conference

Targeting GLOBECOM 2017 04-08, Dec 2017 @ Singapore

Coordinate with Sister and Related Societiesmeeting (Director Curtis Siller)

Tentative date: 03 (Sun) and 04 (Mon) Dec 2017

General Chair: Takaya Yamazato Program Chair: VP Wei Zhang Publicity: MDC co-chairs Prof. Youngehul Sung and Prof.

Meixia Tao Secretary: Hiroshi Shigeno and Takaya Miyazawa

• 2days RCCC• 8 BoG talks• 2 invited talksChapter Achievement Award Outstanding Chapter Report• 2 Panel Discussion of Hot

Topics

• Curtis asks one whole day for Sister and RelatedSocieties meeting

• Advertisement to ChapterChairs

• Any Topics for PanelDiscussions?

IEEE Malaysia ComSoc/VTS Joint Chapter

Fazirulhisyam HashimChair, ComSoc/VTSDecember 5, 2016

Advancing Technology for Humanity

IEEE MALAYSIA COMSOC/VTS JOINT CHAPTER | GLOBECOM 2016

Introduction

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We’re in R10


Introduction

• ComSoc Malaysia founded 1992 (24 years)• ComSoc/VTS founded in 2006 (10 years)• 500++ members

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Our Achievement (past 5 years)

Communications Society• 2016 IEEE ComSoc Chapter of the Year Award • 2016 IEEE ComSoc Chapter Achievement Award (AP)• 2014 IEEE ComSoc Chapter of the Year Award • 2014 IEEE ComSoc Chapter Achievement Award (AP)

Vehicular Technology Society• 2015 IEEE VTS Chapter of the Year Award• 2013 IEEE VTS Chapter of the Year Award• 2012 IEEE VTS Chapter of the Year Award

Local Chapters of IEEE Malaysia Section• 2014 Chapter of the Year Award • 2013 Chapter of the Year Award

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Executive Committee

Fazirulhisyam HashimChair

Ayman El-SalehSecretary

Wan NurdianaTreasurer

Aduwati SaliVice Chair

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N. Ramlee (Past Chair/ Membership Development)

K. Abdullah (Program Coordinator)

M. Roslee (Educational/Outreach/Social Activities)

Khairil Anuar (Communication and Publicity)

M. Y. Alias (Branding, Award & Recognition)

H. Mohamad (Professional Activity/Industrial Linkage)

B. M Ali and M. Ismail (International Relation & ICC2016)


ComSoc/VTS Activities

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ComSoc/VTSActivities

Technical

Conference

Professional

Technical Visit

Educational

MDP

Social

Administrative Meetings


Statistics of ComSoc/VTS Activities

NO. ACTIVITIES 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

1 MDP 4 7 8 10 112 Technical 10 11 10 16 173 Professional 3 8 15 15 124 Educational 8 6 6 10 115 Social 0 1 4 12 126 DLT/DSP 7 8 5 11 97 Conference 2 3 2 3 28 Visit 0 0 0 2 69 Administrative

Meetings 9 12 12 35 35

TOTAL 43 56 62 114 115

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Technical Activities Highlights

• Technical Talk– Forget Big Data. Think About Big Bandwidth– Overview of Research on 5G Wireless Communications – Amateur Radio Demonstration – A Special Generation – Research Direction in Next Generation Telecommunications– Sensing your Smart Cities

• Workshop– 2-Day: Amateur Radio– 1-Day: Radar Systems - Application, Latest Trends and Developments– 1-Day: Satellite Communications Technology– 1-Day: Writing Grant Proposal for Young Researchers– 1-Day: Mobile Android Development Technology

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Technical Activities Highlights

• Tutorial– Half-Day: Introduction of Low Power, Wide Area Networks for

“Internet of Things” Engineers and Decision Makers– Half-Day: Cognitive radio of 4.5G LTE-A wireless Networks and GNU

Radio

• Industrial Forum– 5G and Future Wireless Internet– Building Next Generation Workforce in Communications and Vehicular

Technology

• Conference– MICC 2015– ISTT 2016– ICC 2016

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DLT/DSP Activities

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• 2015 Speakers– Sonia Aissa– A. Nallanathan– Matolak– Pradeep K. Ray– Tarik Taleb– Koichi Asatani

• 2016 Speakers– Ying-Dar Lin– Tarik Taleb– Shiwen Mao– Mahbub Hassan– Xianbin Wang– Zhu Han– Anthony Chan


Professional Activities Highlights

• Volunteering in IEEE Conferences• Professional Talk by Industry (MPWS)• Leadership Program to ComSoc members• Professional Talk by Industry (Intel Altera)• Sharing Experiences on International Academic

Services and Research by Ying-Dar Lin• A Case Study for Professional Volunteerism – 24

Years of IEEE ComSoc Malaysia• Leadership Talk at UPM Leadership Camp

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Membership Dev. Program Activities

• Promote ComSoc and IEEE to university students and staffs• Collocate with our Final Year Project Award at various

universities

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Social Activities Highlights

• Post Flood Humanitarian Program• IEEE Day • World Telecommunication and Information Society Day • Reaching the Homeless, Orphan and Unfortunate People

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Social Activities Highlights

• Bowling Tournament• Reaching the Community in Flood Prone Area• Visit to Pediatric Ward

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Our Best Practices

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Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

EXCOM MEETING

MINI LEADERSHIP CAMP

EXCOM MEETING

EXCOM MEETING

EXCOM MEETING FINAL EXCOM MEETING

EXCOM MEETING

IMPLEMENTATION


Our Best Practices

• Mini Leadership Camp (early of the year, after AGM)– Experience sharing by previous excoms and senior

members of ComSoc/VTS– Strengthen relationship and teamwork among excoms– Learn from the best– Plan suitable activities for that particular year– Discuss various issues of ComSoc/VTS

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Our Best Practices

• Reach the young and student members– Work with ComSoc Student Chapters (provide fund/grant)– Motivational talks and activities to IEEE student members

to engage and participate in community services– They are willing to do the hard work

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Success Story• IEEE ICC2016 Student

Volunteers• Humanitarian and Educational

Activities

Student Volunteers of ICC2016


Our Best Practices

• Branding - increase visibility of ComSoc/VTS among University management, industry, local and global organizations

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Success Story• IEEE ICC2016 • Co-organized events with industry• Humanitarian activities • Subject matter expert

Promoting ICC2016

SME (MH370)


Our Best Practices

• Initiate collaboration with industry; by means of technical visit and discussions

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Our Best Practices

• FYP Award (Communications)• ComSoc/VTS Awards

– Best Paper– Best Dissertation– Best Social Activity

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Benefits• Increase the visibility of ComSoc/VTS• Membership Development Program

• Appreciate members and partners


Our Best Practices

• Publicize your activities in IEEE Global Communications Newsletter (GCN)

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Our Best Practices

• Organize high impact social activities– Humanitarian activities– Social gathering with the members

• Reserve excom position for members from industry– Improve our visibility – Increase the participation of industry in our activities

• Offer funding to student chapters/members– Co-organize the activities

• Apply grant offered by IEEE and R10– Healthy account is the key for good organization

• Appreciate your volunteers 22


Our Best Practices

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IEEE MALAYSIA COMSOC/VTS JOINT CHAPTER | GLOBECOM 2016 24

TAC report

December 2016

Jianwei Huang, TAC Co-Chair

IEEE ComSoc APB General Meeting @ GLOBECOM 2016

TAC Members 2016-2017

APB Vice-Director: Prof. Saewoong Bahk TAC, Co-Chair: Prof. Jianwei Huang TAC, Co-Chair: Prof. Takahiko Saba TAC, Vice Chair: Prof. Lingyang Song TAC, Vice Chair: Prof. Hsuan-Jung Su

TAC Action Plan 2016-2017

Promote the Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award and select winners for 2016 and 2017.

Promote the Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award and select winners for 2016 and 2017.

Current Status: Awardees for 2016 announced in October 2016.

Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award 2016

Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho. “Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture design and rate-energy tradeoff.” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 61, no. 11 (2013): 4754-4767.

Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy. “Relaying protocols for wireless energy harvesting and information processing.” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 12, no. 7 (2013): 3622-3636.

Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award 2016

Best Your Researcher Jun Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and

Technology)

Outstanding Young Researchers (alphabetically): Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology) Namyoon Lee (Pohang University of Science and

Technology) Yong Li (Tsinghua University) Qian Wang (Wuhan University) Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University)

Meeting and Conference Committee (MCC) Report

Prepared by Jiming Chen,

Chair, MCC (2016-17)

• The mission of MCC is to promote participation of AP region in ComSoc Conferences and Meetings.

• MCC Committee 2016-2017– Chair: Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University– Vice Chair: Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology

• In this report, we highlight AP contributions in IEEE INFOCOM 2016.

INTRODUCTION

• San Francisco, CA, USA, 10-15 April, 2016

IEEE INFOCOM 2016

• International Conference on Computer Communications

First Authors of Accepted Papers by Countries/Regions

in AP RegionCountries/Regions First Authors Percentage

PR China 61 60%Hong Kong 15 15%Singapore 7 7%Korea 6 6%Australia 4 4%Taiwan 4 4%India 3 3%Japan 1 1%Total 101

First Authors of Accepted Papers in all Regions

Regions First Authors PercentageUnited States 134 44.7%Asia and Pacific 101 33.7%Africa, Europe, Middle East 53 4%Canada 12 17.7%Total 300

Only first authors of accepted papers are counted. First authors that have more than one paper are counted once for each paper.

• International Conference on Communications

• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23-27 May, 2016

IEEE ICC 2016

• 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications

• Valencia, Spain, 4-7 September, 2016

IEEE PIMRC 2016

WCSP 2017

• International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing

• Nanjing, China, October 11-13, 2017• Submission deadline: June 15, 2017

IEEE SmartGridComm 2017

• International Conference on Smart Grid Communications

• Dresden, Germany, 23-26 October, 2017• Submission deadline: 14 April, 2017

• Global Communications Conference

• Singapore, 4-8 December, 2017• Submission deadline: 1 April, 2017

IEEE GLOBECOM 2017

Promotion of MCC

• Actively involved in IEEE ComSoc flagship conferences– INFOCOM, ICC, GLOBECOM, ICCC, WCSP

• Actively advertisement for APB sponsored regional conferences– APNOMS, APCC, ISPACP– Through APB email list and regional local lists– Helping organizing special invited sessions with international

speakers

• Help to advertise other AP local conferences

ISC ReportGlobecom 2016

Y.-W. Peter hongISC co-chair

National Tsing Hua University

ISC Mission

To publish and distribute the APB Newsletter

To manage and update the APB Homepage

To manage the APB email broadcast to its members

To provide liaison to the IEEE Global Communication Newsletter (GCN)

To collaborate with the AP Office in information service related matters

AP Newsletter

AP Newsletter No. 50 (Globecom’16 Issue) has been published Printed for distribution at the APB general meeting Available for download from APB website

(http://apb.regions.comsoc.org/archives/newsletter/)

Contents include: Message from APB Director (or Vice Directors) Trending Topics in the Eyes of IEEE Fellows

( Thanks to Prof. Ying-Chang Liang and Prof. Jinhong Yuan) 2016 IEEE ComSoc APB Awards Announcement Interview of Best/Outstanding Young Researchers Interview of Outstanding Paper Award Winners

AP Newsletter (cont’d)

Contents include (cont’d):

Report on DLTs/DSPs in the AP Region Committee Reports (``What’s up on the Asia-Pacific Board?’’)

Upcoming Conferences ( Thanks to MCC Chair Jiming Chen) Asia-Pacific Region Officers 2016-2017

AP Webpage The AP webpage has officially moved to the new web

hosting system (as of August 18, 2016)

http://apb.regions.comsoc.org/

Sister Societies

A new entry "Sister Societies" has been added

Call for Contributions

Contributions from APB committees? Conference information

Member information

Meeting information

…

Contributions from local chapters? Local activities

…

Membership Development Committee (MDC)

Youngchul Sung and Meixia TaoMDC Co-Chairs

MDC Commitee Co-Chairs

Youngchul Sung, KAIST, Korea

Meixia Tao, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China

Vice Chairs Osamu Muta, Center for Japan-Egypt Coop. in

Sci. and Tech, Japan

Hai Lin, Osaka Preferecture Univ. Japan

Munir Mohammed, IEEE India Office, Inida

Contents

More on member statistics of AP region

AP chapter chair meeting

Member Statistics in AP Region

7,733 members in total Represent 24.8% out of 31,112 ComSoc

members 7,430 higher grade members

Graduate students are included in higher grade members, who have the voting right.

303 student members (147 or 49.5% are from India)

Percentage of Members per Country

China, 1952, 25%Japan, 1482, 19%

dia, 1302, 17%

Australia, 928, 12%Korea, 519, 7%

Taiwan, 512, 7%

Malaysia, 237, 3%

Singapore, 232, 3%

Indonesia, 142, 2%

New Zealand, 105, 1%Pakistan, 105, 1%Thailand, 60, 1%

Sri Lanka, 59,

Bangladesh, 27,

Philippines, 26,

Vietnam, 25,

Others, 18,Nepal, 2,

その他, 157, 2%

Chapters/Councils & Sister Societies

41 chapters/councils in total 396 members (corresponding to 5%,

from Korea, China, and Pakistan) are not part of any chapter/council (See Table III)

11 sister societies from 9 countries (See Table IV)

Reduction in Number of Members in AP Region from Dec. 2014 to Dec.2015

Country/Region Higher Grade 2015

Higher Grade 2014

Student Member 2015

Student Member 2014

Total 2015 Total 2014 # of Chapters

1 China 1,914 2,083 38 89 1,952 2,172 7

2 Japan 1,470 1,670 12 22 1,482 4,404 3

3 India 1,155 2,919 147 1,485 1,302 1,692 10

4 Australia 911 1,301 17 51 928 1,352 7

5 Korea 507 670 12 14 519 684 1

6 Taiwan 495 628 17 41 512 669 2

7 Singapore 230 419 2 9 232 428 1

8 Malaysia 219 500 18 56 237 556 1

9 Indonesia 110 176 32 19 142 195 1

10 New Zealand 105 162 0 12 105 174 1

11 Pakistan 101 224 4 109 105 109 2

12 Thailand 59 92 1 2 60 94 1

13 Sri Lanka 58 96 1 36 59 132 1

14 Bangladesh 26 94 1 50 27 144 1

15 Philippines 25 60 1 13 26 73 1

16 Vietnam 25 36 0 2 25 38 1

17 Nepal 2 0 2 1

18 Others 18 38 0 38 18 38

Total 7,430 11,168 303 2,010 7,733 13,178 42

Reduction in Number of Members in US Region from Dec. 2014 to Dec.2015


Higher Grade 2014

Student Member 2015

Student Member 2014

Total 2015 Total 2014

1 Region1 2,330 3,027 22 154 2,352 3,181

2 Region2 2,135 2,907 21 150 2,156 3,057

3 Region3 1,697 2,512 33 221 1,730 2,733

4 Region4 1,062 1,601 14 102 1,076 1,703

5 Region5 1,647 2,271 17 166 1,664 2,437

6 Region6 3,815 5,125 32 309 3,847 5,434

Total 12,686 17,443 137 1,102 12,825 18,545

Reduction in Number of Members in Europe Region from Dec. 2014 to Dec.2015


Higher Grade 2014

Student Member 2015

Student Member 2014

Total 2015 Total 2014

1 U.K. & Republic of Ireland 1,312 1,778 15 34 1,327 1,812

2 Germany 872 1,120 17 26 889 1,146

3 Italy 558 750 11 28 569 778

4 France 442 571 14 43 456 614

5 Spain 401 525 10 41 411 566

6 Sweden 321 402 0 3 321 405

7 Benelux 320 432 4 10 324 442

8 Switzerland 265 350 1 3 266 353

9 Greece 227 348 15 62 242 410

10 Finland 173 227 7 6 180 233

11 Norway 139 160 0 0 139 160

12 Turkey 137 256 24 106 161 362

13 Portugal 131 216 0 33 131 249

14 Austria 121 158 0 4 121 162

15 Others 851 1,246 26 79 877 1,320

Total 6,270 8,539 144 478 6,414 9,012

Reduction ratio in Number of Members in AP, US, Europe Region from Dec.2014 to Dec.2015

/Region Higher Grade 2015

Higher Grade 2014

Reduction ratio

Student Member 2015

Student Member 2014

Reduction ratio

Total 2015

Total 2014

Reduction ratio

1 AP 7,430 11,168 33% 303 2,010 85% 7,733 13,178 41%

2 US 12,686 17,443 27% 137 1,102 88% 12,825 18,545 31%

3 Europe 6,270 8,539 27% 144 478 70% 6,414 9,012 29%

Total 26,386 37,150 29% 584 3,590 84% 26,972 40,735 34%

Reduction in Number of Members in AP Region from Dec. 2014 to Dec.2015 Overally, the number of members reduces in all countries and all

continents from Dec. 2014 to Dec. 2015 Need some action for membership promotion

For the first-time IEEE registration, provide half or one year free society membership

Opportunities Internet-Of-Things (IoT) Smart cities Autonomous vehicles

New Chapters in 2016

The Chengdu chapter in China The Daejeon chapter in Korea under establishment

List of Areas WITHOUT ComSoc Chapters

Area CountryHigher Grade

Membership

Student Membership Total Total per

Country

Wuhan China 46 2 48 48

Changwon Korea 18 1 19

200Daejeon Korea 124 6 130

Kwangju Korea 19 1 20

Taegu Korea 31 0 31

Islamabad Pakistan 50 0 50 50Others 18 0 18 18

Total 382 14 396 396

Distinguished Lecturer Tours DLT 1: Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana, Jan. 2016 DLT 2: Prof. Jalel Ben Othman, Mar. 2016 DLT 3: Prof. Zhu Han, May/Jun. 2016 DLT 4: Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, May 2016 DLT 5: Prof. Dusit Niyato, May 2016 DLT 6: Prof. Jianwei Huang, Jul. 2016 DLT 7: Prof. Jiajia Liu, Mar. 2016 DLT 8: Prof. Mahbub Hassan, May 2016 DLT 9: Prof. J. B. Othman, May/Jun. 2016 DLT 10: Prof. Ying-Dar Lin, May 2016 DLT 11: Prof. Anthony Chan, May/Jun. 2016 DLT 12: Prof. Anura Jayasumana, Sep./Oct. 2016 DLT 13: Prof. Luiz A. DaSilva, Jun. 2016 DLT 14: Prof. Tarik Taleb, Jun. 2016 DLT 15: Prof. Yu Cheng, Jul. 2016 DLT 16: Prof. Dusit Niyato, Dec. 2016

Distinguished Speaker Programs

DSP 1: Prof. Lingyang Song, Feb. 2016 DSP 2: Prof. Nirwan Ansari, Jun. 2016 DSP 3: Prof. Tarik Taleb, May 2016 DSP 4: Prof. Zhensheng Zhang, May 2016 DSP 5: Prof. Tom Hou, Jun. 2016 DSP 6: Prof. Liuqing Yang, Oct. 2016

AP Chapter Chair Meeting 2017

Just before Globecom 2017 At Singapore Two day meeting Issues and agenda for discussion

Sister Societies in APCountry Sister Society URL

1 Australia Australian Computer Society (ACS) https://www.acs.org.au2 China China Institute of Communications (CIC) -3 China The Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) http://www.cie-china.org4

India The Institute of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers (IETE) http://www.iete.org/

5India Communications Multimedia Applications

Infrastructure (CMAI) http://www.cmai.asia

6Japan The Institute of Electronics, Information &

Communication Engineers (IEICE-CS) http://www.ieice.org/cs

7 Korea The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS) http://www.kics.or.kr

8 Malaysia The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) http://www.myiem.org.my9 Singapore Singapore Computer Society (SCS) https://www.scs.org.sg10 Taiwan Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering

(CIEE) http://www.ciee.org.tw

11 Vietnam The Radio & Electronics Association of Vietnam (REV) -

Conclusion

Plan to set up new chapters/councils in

Korea, China, and Pakistan

Need to actively promote members in the

AP region

For the first-time IEEE registration, provide

half or one year free society membership

References

[1] IEEE Annual Statistics Report. http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/statistics/index.html

[2] AP ComSoc Membership Statistics and Graphs. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/ieee/apo/ComSoc/Comsoc_StatsandGraphs.html

[3] ComSoc Sister Societies. http://www.comsoc.org/about/SisterSocieties/agreements

Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC)Report

Eiji Oki and Miki YamamotoCCC Chairs

Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC)

Chairs Eiji Oki, The University of Electro-

Communications, Tokyo, Japan Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University,

Kansai, Japan Vice Chairs

Byonghyo Shim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Masaki Bandai, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

APB-CCC Plans for 2016-2017 Collaborate with the AP Office in running

Distinguished Lecturer Tours (DLTs) and Distinguished Speaker Programs (DSPs) DLTs and DSPs so far in 2016

17 DLTs and 7 DSPs granted/delivered

Collaborate with the AP Office in coordinating ComSoc Executives' visit to Chapters

New Activities Collaboration with Sister Societies in AP region

2016 IEEE ComSoc DLTs in Asia PacificDistinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #1: Anura Jayasumana 15 - 24 January 2016Bombay GujaratPune

AP DLT #2: J. B. Othman 14 - 19 March 2016India Council

BombayPune

Gujarat

AP DLT #3: Zhu Han 23 May - 4 June 2016 MalaysiaDelhi

Singapore

AP DLT #4: Mohamed-Slim Alouini 13 - 14 May 2016 Bangladesh

AP DLT #5: Dusit Niyato 20 - 27 May 2016 SeoulTokyo

AP DLT #6: Jianwei Huang 20 - 27 May 2016 TokyoKansai

(Continue:-) 2016 IEEE ComSoc DLTs in Asia Pacific

Distinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #7: Jiajia Liu 28 - 30 March 2016 Taipei

AP DLT #8: Mahbub Hassan 22 - 28 May 2016 Malaysia

AP DLT #9: J. B. Othman 29 May- 19 June 2016 New Zealand North, South & Central

AP DLT #10: Ying-Dar Lin 19 – 29 May 2016 SingaporeMalaysia Thailand

AP DLT #11: Anthony Chan 22 - 28 May 2016

SingaporeMalaysiaIndonesiaPhilippine

AP DLT #12: Anura Jayasumana: 23 Sep – 5 Oct 2016KeralaKolkata

Kharagpur

(Continue:-) 2016 IEEE ComSoc DLTs in Asia Pacific

Distinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #13: Luiz A. DaSilva 19 - 25 June 2016Kolkata

KharagpurBangalore

AP DLT #14: Tarik Taleb 13 - 17 June 2016 TokyoSapporo

AP DLT #15: Yu Cheng 4 – 15 Jully June 2016Nanjing

ShanghaiBeijing

AP DLT #16: Dusit Niyato 18 – 22 December 2016 Thailand

AP DLT #17: Tom Hou 16 – 30 December 2016Shenzhen

TaipeiTinan

2016 IEEE ComSoc DSPs in Asia Pacific

Distinguished Lecturer Lecture Date Hosting Chapters

DSP #1: Lingyang Song 16 February 2016 Sendai

DSP #2: Nirwan Ansari 1 June 2016 Indonesia

DSP #3: Tarik Taleb 27 May 2016 Malaysia

DSP #4: Zhensheng Zhang 19 May 2016 Harbin

DSP #5: Tom Hou 16 June 2016 Xi'An

DSP #6: Liuqing Yang 18 October 2016 Nanjing

DSP #7: Liuqing Yang 25 November 2016 Beijing

Sister Societies in AP region

CIC (China) CIEE (Taiwan) CMAI (India) IEICE-CS (Japan) IETE (India) KICS (South Korea) REV (Vietnam) SCS (Singapore)

Articles in AP News Letter for Sister Societies (1)

Introductory articles of Sister Societies 1 sister society per NewsLetter (1/2 year) Alphabetical orderAP NewsLetter No. 50 (Dec. 2016): CIC (China) Oct. 1, 2016

Unfortunately, no response by deadline No. 51 (June 2017): CIEE (Taiwan) Deadline: Apr 1, 2017No. 52 (Dec. 2017): CMAI (India) Deadline: Oct. 1, 2017No. 53 (June 2018): IEICE-CS (Japan) April 1, 2018No. 54 (Dec. 2018): IETE (India) Oct. 1, 2018No. 55 (June 2019): KICS (South Korea) April 1, 2018No. 56 (Dec. 2019): REV (Vietnam) Oct. 1, 2019No. 57 (June 2020): SCS (Singapore) April 1, 2020

Articles in AP News Letter for Sister Societies (2)

CFP of Special Issue/Section of Sister Society Journals Requested on Aug.24 http://apb.regions.comsoc.org/sister-societies/ Guideline

each CFP includes the title of the special issue/section and the link to the website of the special issue/section.

Each sister society can put at most nine CFPs in six months.

Every half year, on request basis

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