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Two separate elections are held each year in VTS. The first involves the entire membership and elects 5 of the 15 voting members of the Board of Governors of the Society, its administrative committee. All the successful candidates in this year’s election have previously served on the Board in come capacity before. They are
- Javier Gozálvez, from Universidad Miguel
Hernandez de Elche in Spain, serving as VTS President
- Lajos Hanzo, from the University of
Southampton in the United Kingdom, currently an elected Board member
- James Irvine, from the University of
Strathclyde in Glasgow, also from the United Kingdom, serving as VTS Secretary
- Alexander Wyglinski, from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in the United States, serving as VTS Executive Vice President
- Weihua Zhuang, from the University of
Waterloo in Canada, serving as VTS VP—Mobile Radio
Voting board members are elected in
rotation, and serve for three years. The
class of 2017 will serve as voting members for 2018, 2019 and 2020.
The second election took place at the Board
of Governor’s meeting at VTC2017-Fall in Toronto and was for the executive
officers for 2018. The successful
candidates are:
- President: Alex Wyglinski
- Executive Vice President: Abbas Jamalipour
- VP—Publications: Weihua Zhuang
- VP—Conferences: JR Cruz
- VP—Membership: Richard Yu
- VP—Land Transportation: David Thurston
- VP—Motor Vehicles: Loïc Boulon
- VP—Mobile Radio: Jae Hong Lee
- Treasurer: Nicholas Kirsch
The vote means that the Vice Presidents for
Publications, Conferences, Motor Vehicles and Mobile Radio remain unchanged
from 2017. Alex Wyglinski moves from
Executive VP to President, replacing Javier Gozálvez from 1 January.
Abbas Jamalipour, David Thurston and Nicholas
Kirsch join the Executive for next year. David Thurston, who replaces Bih-Yuan
Ku as VP for Land Transportation, has held that position in the past; and David is co-chair of the Joint Rail
Conference next year. Abbas, who replaces Alex Wyglinski as Executive VP, has
been an elected member of the Board since 2014 and as well as being
Editor of the VTS Mobile World is Chair of the Fellows Committee. Richard
replaces Sensors Council president-elect Fabrice Labeau as VP
Membership, has been an elected member of the Board in 2017.
Nicholas Kirsch was appointed
to the Board last year and as Fellowship Committee Chair is responsible
reviving the two scholarships run by the Society—the Daniel E. Noble
Fellowship and the Transportation Fellowship.
Nicholas takes over from Tom Rubinstein, who has been treasurer of VTS
for 6 years. |
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