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 The program is selective, and each year, our Distinguished Lecturer Selection committee examines nominations of top figures to join the program. After ending their maximum of two terms as DLs, the most sought-after speakers may be offered extended terms as Distinguished Speakers. Funded at a lower level than DLs, Distinguished Speakers still have enough support to give lectures in regions close to wherever their other travels take them.
Since the start of the program in 2010, Distinguished Speakers and Lectures have made more than 200 trips throughout the world. In 2017, they jointly made over 40 DL/DS trips to our chapters!
The 2018 Class of DLs is published in July, and includes speakers from all around the globe. The Class of 2018 includes the following new Distinguished Lecturers:
- Anwer Al-Dulaimi, EXFO Inc., Canada
- Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- Xiang Cheng, Peking University, China
- Rui Dinis, FCT-UNL, Portugal
- Hongwei Li, UESTC, China
- Patrick Luk Cranfield University, UK
- Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Vincent Poor, Princeton University, USA
- Jianxin Shen, Zhejiang University, China
- Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA
- Theodoros Tsiftsis, Jinan University, China
- Xin Wang, Fudan University, China
- Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas, USA
- Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA
For more information about the program, a list of speakers and proposed topics, please refer to the official VTS DL webpage at https://vtsociety.org/member-resources/distinguished-lecturers/
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 program that is now one of the largest such programs within IEEE. The program groups well-known figures form academia and industry, in areas covering the fields of interest of the Society, from automotive electronics to wireless communications. The Society funds these speakers to travel to VTS chapters around the globe.*/);){kind=small}
