BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Madrid BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20211203T235531Z UID:E4A603FE-2C30-47BA-BEFD-C23ACFC102D1 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20211207T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20211207T200000 DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\n\nMaïté Brandt-Pearce\, University of Virginia\nWe ndi Heinzelman\, University of Rochester\n\nBiography:\n\n[]MAÏTÉ BRANDT -PEARCE\n\nUniversity of Virginia\n\nMaïté Brandt-Pearce is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the Univ ersity of Virginia. She joined UVA after receiving her Ph.D. from Rice Uni versity. Her research interests include free-space optical communications and fiber-optics networks subject to physical layer degradations. In 2013\ , she co-founded a start-up called VLNComm to develop visible light commun ication technology. Dr. Brandt-Pearce is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Aw ard and an NSF RIA. She is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at ICC 2006 and GLOBECOM 2012. She had served on the editorial board of IEEE Transact ion of Communications\, IEEE Communications Letters\, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks and Springer Photonic Network Communic ations. After serving as General Chair of the Asilomar Conference on Signa ls\, Systems & Computers in 2009\, she served as Technical Vice-Chair of G LOBECOM 2016. She is currently the chair of WICE (ComSoc Women in Communic ations Engineering).\n\n[]WENDI HEINZELMAN\n\nUniversity of Rochester\n\nW endi Heinzelman is Dean of the Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and A pplied Sciences at the University of Rochester. She is also a full profess or in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. She received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell U niversity and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sc ience from MIT. Her research interests include wireless communications and networking\, mobile-cloud computing and multimedia communication. She has contributed to 12 textbooks and has published in more than 150 journals a nd conferences\, with over 55\,000 citations to her work. Since 2020\, she has served as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technologies Standing Com mittee\, where she has worked with ComSoc members to support existing and develop new Emerging Technology Initiatives. She is a co-founder and a ste ering committee member of N^2Women\, a Fellow of the ACM\, and a Fellow of the IEEE.\n\nCo-sponsored by: IEEE YP ComSoc GLOBAL\n\n Av. del Partenón \, 5\, 28042 Madrid\, Madrid\, Madrid\, Spain LOCATION: Av. del Partenón\, 5\, 28042 Madrid\, Madrid\, Madrid\, Spain ORGANIZER:m.ballesteros.carballo@ieee.org SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:ACADEMIC FIRESIDE CHAT - YP at GLOBECOM Madrid URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/293045 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Speakers:</strong></p>\n<p>Ma&iuml \;t&eacute\; Brandt-Pearce\, University of Virginia<br />Wendi Heinzelman\ , University of Rochester</p>\n<p><strong>Biography:</strong></p>\n<h3><im g class="img-responsive" src="https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/sites /globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/files/Maite%20Brandt-Pearce.jpg" alt="" wi dth="150" height="212" />MA&Iuml\;T&Eacute\; BRANDT-PEARCE</h3>\n<p><stron g><em>University of Virginia</em></strong></p>\n<p class="rtejustify">Ma&i uml\;t&eacute\; Brandt-Pearce is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Virginia. She joine d UVA after receiving her Ph.D. from Rice University. Her research interes ts include free-space optical communications and fiber-optics networks sub ject to physical layer degradations. In 2013\, she co-founded a start-up c alled VLNComm to develop visible light communication technology. Dr. Brand t-Pearce is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and an NSF RIA. She is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at ICC 2006 and GLOBECOM 2012. She had s erved on the editorial board of&nbsp\;<em>IEEE Transaction of Communicatio ns\, IEEE Communications Letters\, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communicati ons</em>&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;<em>Networks and Springer Photonic Network Commun ications</em>. After serving as General Chair of the Asilomar Conference o n Signals\, Systems &amp\; Computers in 2009\, she served as Technical Vic e-Chair of GLOBECOM 2016. She is currently the chair of WICE (ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering).&nbsp\;</p>\n<h3 class="rtejustify"><img c lass="img-responsive" src="https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/sites/gl obecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/files/Wendi%20Heinzelman.jpeg" alt="" width=" 150" height="210" />WENDI HEINZELMAN</h3>\n<p class="rtejustify"><em><stro ng>University of Rochester</strong></em></p>\n<p class="rtejustify">Wendi Heinzelman is Dean of the Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applie d Sciences at the University of Rochester. She is also a full professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Scien ce. She received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell Univer sity and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Her research interests include wireless communications and netw orking\, mobile-cloud computing and multimedia communication. She has cont ributed to 12 textbooks and has published in more than 150 journals and co nferences\, with over 55\,000 citations to her work. Since 2020\, she has served as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technologies Standing Committe e\, where she has worked with ComSoc members to support existing and devel op new Emerging Technology Initiatives. She is a co-founder and a steering committee member of N^2Women\, a Fellow of the ACM\, and a Fellow of the IEEE.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR