The Action Program 2011

 

Action Program /2011/IEEE-EMB RO Chapter

 

1. The IEEE-EMB RO Chapter Annual Seminar and meetings.

Description:  A seminar with the members of the EMB community. The goal is to identify the status of the community and to explore new opportunities in consolidating the Chapter and strengthening ties with R&D, industry, companies, and other IEEE Chapters. It is expected that the EMB seminar will be connected to conferences such as ATEE, MEDITECH, EHB, INGIMED (in odd years) and others.

 

Annual EMB Seminar at ATEE-2011, UP Bucureşti

Organizers:

Alexandru Morega and Sever Paşca

Place: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, May 14th, 9:00-13:00.

ATEE is the forum that stimulates active and effective exchange of information between researchers in various areas of theoretical and applied electrical engineering. Key leaders from private and state owned companies involved in will also be in attendance.

The EMB section, jointly organized with the EMC-RO Chapter, is connected to the “Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering” Symposium, which – this year – is in celebration to the 90th anniversary of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, which we recommend you to attend. The official site is http://atee2011.elth.pub.ro

ATEE is an IEEE eXplore event (#19057), sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Romania Section, EMB-RO and ENC-Ro Chapters, and it also listed with wikicfp: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=14940

 

Contact person: prof. Alexandru Morega

For those of you who did not registered yet, please email to atee2011@upb.ro or to amm@iem.pub.ro mentioning “The 2011 EMB section”.

 

Regular EMB meeting at MEDITECH-2011, UT Cluj-Napoca

Organizers:  Radu Ciupa (MEDITECH) and Alexandru Morega (IEEE-EMB-RO)

Place and time: check the official site — http://www.meditech.utcluj.ro/

The conference is intended to be an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advance in, and applications of biomedical engineering to exchange the latest research results and ideas in the areas covered by the topics (and not only!). MEDITECH is an IFMBE sponsored conference.

 

Contact person: prof. Radu Ciupa

 

Regular EMB meeting at EHB-2011 UMF Iaşi

Organizers:  Hariton Costin (EHB) and Alexandru Morega (IEEE-EMB-RO)

Place and time: to be specified in due time.

 

EHB: E-Health and Bioengineering Conference. The main objective of this third conference, organized by the ‘Gr.T. Popa’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iaşi and the Romanian Society of Medical Bioengineering, under the aegis of IEEE Romania and IEEE-EMB Romania, is dedicated to the e-health and medical bioengineering in general. Its goals are to promote concepts and advanced hardware and software technologies in the emerging domains of e-health, medical devices and instrumentation, biosignal and image processing, biomechanics, biomaterials, biotechnologies, healthcare management, also for some younger disciplines like bioinformatics, systems biology or virtual physiological human.

The official site is: http://www.bioinginerie.ro/Default.aspx?alias=www.bioinginerie.ro/ehb2011

EHB is an IEEE eXplore event (#19121), and also listed with wikicfp: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=15240&copyownerid=22595

 

Contact person: prof. Hartion Costin.

 

2. Local PhD seminars in Bucharest, Iasi, Cluj, Timisoara, Craiova, Brasov, etc.

Every year, the local PhD students in EMB and other different major fields conducting research in EMB will present the progress of their work in a dedicated seminar that will be followed by an active dialog.

To fulfill this task, we still need a volunteer member of the IEEE-EMB-RO Chapter to organize the seminars in each of the cities (and others, should it be adequate). Therefore, I want to kindly ask a few of you to do this job:

  * prof. Radu Ciupa at UTCN (at MEDITECH 2011)

  * prof. Radu Negoescu at IASTEDA (at INGIMED 2011)

  * prof. Radu Ciorap at UMFI (at ATEE 2011)

  * prof. Hariton Costin at UMFI (at EHB 2011)

  * other contributors

 

These seminars may constitute a final rehearsal for the presentation of the papers for forthcoming International Conferences and should be in English because English is the language of all international companies where most of our Ph.D. students hope to get a job either here or abroad.

 

3. Steps to establish an IEEE-EMB-RO Student Chapter.

To start with, our graduate (PhD) student Alin Dobre – the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at UPB – was designated to proceed with the formalities via Internet; he will keep you posted with the progress and ask for your input when necessary.  Until then please talk to you best undergrad and your grad students about this possibility and send us a list of their Email addresses (a common address for all which they already share will be good).

 

4. Strengthening ties with IEEE-RO Chapters.

We started last year, through a joint EMB-EMC event connected to EPE-2010 in Iasi.

I already contacted the EMC Chair, prof. Andrei Marinescu, and we agreed to have a joint event connected to the ATEE 2011.

ATEE is an IEEE eXplore event (#19057), and also listed with wikicfp — http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=14940

 

Please do not miss this event and contribute if possible.

 

5. Strengthening ties between academia and R&D, industry, and companies in EMB.

Dr. Mihai Cheţan of MedCo volunteered to setting up a kick-off meeting with representatives from R&D, companies, and industry with an interest in EMB. He plans a tentative action connected to the IEEE-EMB, IEEE-EMC joint meeting at the ATEE-2011 conference.

 

6. EMB-RO and other related events

 

Prof. Paul D. Cristea, MC RA, adds the (technical) support of the IEEE-EMB-RO Chapter to the GPS 2011 conference. Please participate, and spread the news:

 

The second International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing, organized by the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest (UPB), the Biomedical Engineering Center, Bucharest, Romania; with the support of the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation; the IEEE Romania Section; the Commission for Biomedical Engineering of the Romanian Academy and the Romanian Bioinformatics Society.

GSP2011 will be held at the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania. The event is organized in conjunction with ISSCS 2011 (the 10th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems) held at the Technical University of Iasi, Romania on June 30 and July 1, 2011 (http://scs.etc.tuiasi.ro/isscs2011/).

The web site of the workshop is http://GSP2011.dsp.pub.ro <http://gsp2011.dsp.pub.ro/>.

 

This is the ACTION Plan for 2011. However, the list will be still open, and others actions and initiatives are welcome.

The very busy 2011 EMB plan requires the participation of some of us, but the more participants the better.

 

We are looking forward to working together in successfully solving the 2011 Agenda.

 

Alexandru Morega, IEEE-EMB-RO Chapter