New SVEC Council Officers for 2018/2019

        Yllka Masada, President
        Michael Wright, Vice President
        Jerry Pohorsky, Secretary
        Elise Engelhardt, Treasurer
        Rajiv Mathur, Director
        Vishnu Pendyala, Director
        Daria Poehlman, Director
        Yashesh Shroff, Past President 

SVEC July 11, 2018 Council Meeting and Board Elections
“Machine Learning, Convolution Neural Networks, and Tensorflow”

As the last full council meeting of the 2017-18 year, we will have elections of the board. Please send nominations. The full list of board positions is available as listed below.

Venue: Intel, SC-12 Building

3600 Juliette Ln, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Please RSVP to be added to the security clearance list ahead of time.

Topic:  Machine Learning, Convolution Neural Networks, and Tensorflow: A practitioner’s Overview
Speaker:  Kiran Gunnam, Technical Director of Algorithms, VeloDyne LiDAR.

Kiran will be offering a two-day workshop on this topic in September. Details below.  

 You can RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/BusinessofEngineering/events/252622832/

 6:00 Gather & Networking
 6:40 opens / intros
 6:50 Guest Speaker talk: Machine Learning - A practitioner’s overview
 7:30 Member society updates & Council matters
 8:00 Close

IEEE Workshops on Machine Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Tensorflow
by IEEE ComSoC, ITSoC, CIS and Apollo AI on
Monday September 24, at 4:00 pm
Tuesday September 25, at 4:00 pm

* Bring together computer science and statistics to harness that predictive power
* End-to-end process of investigating data through a machine-learning lens
* Extract and identify useful features that best represent your data

Register here. Early bird tickets last till July 15th

Board of Directors for 2017–2018

        Yllka Masada (IEEE-CS), President
        Michael Wright (IEEE), Vice President
        Jerry Pohorsky (EAASV), Secretary
        Elise Engelhardt (ASME), Treasurer
        Rajiv Mathur (IEEE), Director
        Vishnu Pendyala (IEEE-CS), Director
        Daria Poehlman (IEEE), Director
        (open position), Director
        Yashesh Shroff (IEEE-CPMT), Past President

Calendar of the SVEC

July 11, 2018 SVEC Full Council meeting & Election