IEEE Young Professionals

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Not ready for a research career? Here are some tips

March 24, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

Tips for Preparing Yourself and Applying for Graduate Studies and a Career in Research There is a world of possibilities in your hand once you graduate with your first degree. Pursuing post graduate studies is an obvious avenue for you; if you are a passionate individual craving to explore the unknown. Obtaining admission to your […]

Mentorship

Singapore Young Professionals on “Ideal Jobs”

March 22, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

As the academic year is drawing to an end, many students have currently started their lookout for suitable jobs matching their profile. Landing in a high profiled position with a good salary package, opportunities for learning and growing inside the organization will definitely be the first choice for students who will soon be graduating as […]

Technology

Podcast: Xilinx, Leader in FPGA technology – Interview with Chris Dick

March 20, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

We were lucky enough to catch up with a guru of Field Programmable Gate Array’s (FPGA) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Dr. Chris Dick. Chris is a fellow of Xilinx and is their Chief DSP Architect. Xilinx an American technology company, primarily a supplier of programmable logic devices. It is known for inventing the field-programmable gate […]

Technology

Podcast: Game of Standards with IEEE President Elect, Karen Bartleson

March 7, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

On the 1st of February we caught up with Karen Bartleson, the 2016 President Elect of IEEE at the at ISSCC 2016 in San Francisco. Karen was kind enough to talk to us about her work with IEEE standards which is a fascinating and very important element of technology. For most of our audience this […]

Technology

Smith Charts: A new dimension

March 1, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

You don’t always need highly successful people to teach you lessons, people you meet on a day to day basis can also inspire you to take career decisions which have the ability to give your life a completely different path. This is something I realised while pursuing my PhD in Telecommunications from Valencia; an exchange […]

Inspiration

Video Interview: Norbert Wiener, inventor of Cybernetics

February 24, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

Today we bring you a video interview with Dr. Greg Adamson who will highlight a figure who has changed to world though his innovation in the early and mid 20th century, Norbert Wiener. Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was professor of mathematics at MIT. A […]

Technology

Podcast: Dr. Yang Song, IBM Researcher – Recipient Young Professional Award at GLOBECOM 2015

February 22, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

Hello Young Professionals from all over the world. As part of our regular podcast series, today we speak to Dr. Yang Song. Yang was the recipient of the IEEE Young Professional Award at GLOBECOM 2015, San Diego. Yang tell us about his career, what he is currently researching with at the IBM Almaden Research Centre, exciting developent […]

Technology

Cyber Security with Stefano Zanero

February 17, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

Stefano Zanero received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico of Milano university, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests focus on systems security: web application security, computer virology, malware analysis, underground economy, and in general data analysis applied to security. He has been a speaker at international scientific and technical IT conferences […]

Community

Veronika Cencen; international gymnast, biomedical engineer and IEEE volunteer

February 10, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

In today’s article we bring you the story of a young female biomedical engineer, aspiring to make an impact in the world of neurogenesis and hippocampal prostheses. We are speaking to Veronika Cencen who is an extraordinary individual having lived in many countries, conducted research at different universities, competed in numerous international rhythmic gymnastics forums […]

Inspiration

The virtual world – Preventing online hate

January 29, 2016 By Eddie Custovic

Recently we had the pleasure of speaking to Dr Andre Oboler, an IEEE member who is a social media and online public diplomacy expert. Dr Oboler is CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute and a consultant on various online projects. He received his PhD in computer science from Lancaster University, UK and his LLM(JD) from Monash University, […]