Virtual Panel: If I knew then what I know now, thoughts on getting your career started

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Nick Felker

Developer Relations Engineer, Google, Inc

Vice Chair, IEEE NY Young Professionals

Nick Felker is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google focused on the Google Assistant developer platform. He also currently serves as the vice-chair for the local IEEE YP chapter. After receiving a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University, he has since returned part-time in pursuit of a master's of engineering.

Chamara Johnson

Principal Systems Engineer

Transit and Rail at WSP

Chamara Johnson is a Principal Systems Engineer at WSP within Transit and Rail, in New York City.  Her systems engineering experience spans the whole system lifecycle with a strong emphasis on requirements and test, working across various industries; including DOD, non-profit Oceanographic, and Transportation, in the US and UK.  Chamara has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a MS in Engineering Management/ Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  She is an IEEE Senior Member and the Vice-Chair of Section Activities of the IEEE New York Section Executive Committee, and Chair of the IEEE NY Chapter of the Vehicular Technology Society; an active member of INCOSE’s Transportation WG, Infrastructure WG, and Integration, Verification and Validation WG; as well as a member of the APTA Systems Engineering Subcommittee.  Chamara is also a Certified Systems Engineering Professional.

Iaonnis (John) Kymissis, Ph.D.

Kenneth Grayer Professor of Electrical Engineering

Columbia University

Ioannis (John) Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering.  He graduated with his SB, M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His M.Eng. thesis was performed as a co-op at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab on organic thin-film transistors, and his Ph.D. was obtained in the Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT, working on field-emission displays. After graduation, he spent three years as a postdoc in MIT's Laboratory for Organic Optics and Electronics, working on a variety of organic electronic devices, and also as a consulting engineer for QD Vision (later acquired by Samsung Electronics). He joined the faculty at Columbia University in electrical engineering in 2006 as an assistant professor. He has won a number of awards for his work, including the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport award, the Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award, the MIT Clean Energy Prize, and a Verizon Powerful Answers award. An SID Fellow, he recently served a term as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Society for Information Display. In addition, he was the general chair for the 2014 Device Research Conference and was the program vice chair for the 2019 SID Display Week Symposium.

Cara Levy, P.E.

President, Senior Traction Power Engineer

Cara Engineering, P.C.

Cara Levy, P.E. is a traction power and electrical engineer. She has lived and worked in New York City for 13 years and has a Master’s degree in Railway Systems Engineering and Integration from University of Birmingham. Cara has recently opened her own firm, Cara Engineering, P.C. which is a certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise with NYS/MTA and is pending certification as a WBE with several organizations.

Panel: 6:00 PM  - 7:00 PM

Q&A: 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM