Title of the talk: " IEEE NTC Women in Nanotechnology/WIE: diversity for sustainable future"
Despite the recognized benefits of diversity and the decades of programs targeted at increasing diversity in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine, the underrepresentation of historically excluded groups continues due to persisting systemic inequalities. Talk will cover how IEEE is making efforts to break the bias, IEEE’s mission and policies focusing on DEI aspects. The main focus is introduce women in nanotechnology(WIN) an affiliate group of IEEE WIE and their efforts towards embracing diverse groups for sustainable future.
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Dr. Kanika Singh of American Bureau of Shipping
IEEE NTC Women in Nanotechnology/WIE: diversity for sustainable future
Despite the recognized benefits of diversity and the decades of programs targeted at increasing diversity in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine, the underrepresentation of historically excluded groups continues due to persisting systemic inequalities. Talk will cover how IEEE is making efforts to break the bias, IEEE’s mission and policies focusing on DEI aspects. The main focus is introduce women in nanotechnology(WIN) an affiliate group of IEEE WIE and their efforts towards embracing diverse groups for sustainable future.
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Dr. Kanika Singh is the Senior Member of IEEE and working as Senior Project Manager at ABS (American Bureau of Shipping). Dr. Singh pursued her education from Top university, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi), Karlsruhe University, Germany and Ph.D from Pusan National University, South Korea. With her 25 years of IEEE Membership, she took various roles and positions at IEEE. Now serving as the Advisory Board Member of IEEE NTC TryNano and IEEE WISE. Also served as Vice Chair of IEEE IMS/EMBS Delhi chapter.
She is recipient of various technical fellowship awards and academic awards, few of them include the prestigious Brain Korea (BK21) fellowship Award, Korean Research Fellowship (KRF) award, Best paper awardee at IEEE-IEC_KATS, IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award, DAAD German government fellowship award, and Outstanding research paper award at Int. conf. Kyushu University, Japan. She worked as the International Scholar at IMEC-KU-Leuven, Belgium and research on BioMEMS/Nanotechnology/Instrumentation/standards fetched some awards such as Best paper Award for Region 10, at IEEE Int. Conf. at Atlanta- Georgia USA. She also has delivered various invited talks at different forums.