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The IEEE Student Activities Committee (SAC)

SAC is the IEEE committee responsible for student programs and benefits, and making recommendations to the Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board. It is filled with IEEE volunteers, and supported by IEEE staff. These volunteer members provide important viewpoints and information, and represent the voice of the over 100,000 IEEE Student and Graduate Student members worldwide.

Mission: To deliver a common, high quality IEEE Student member experience globally, for lifelong, professional success through IEEE membership.

Leadership

  • Photo of Ruben Barrera-Michel

    Ruben Barrera-Michel Chair, SAC

  • Photo of Hossam Ali Chair, SAC

    Hossam Ali Past Chair, SAC

MGA Student Activities Committee Members

Listed below are the members of the MGA Student Activities Committee. For more information on volunteer opportunities within your regional committee or connect with them directly through Contact Us.

  • SAC Chair, Ruben Barrera-Michel
  • SAC Past Chair, Hossam Ali
  • Vice Chair, Programs, Emre Ayranci
  • Vice Chair, Membership, Elizabeth Johnston

Regional Student Activities Chairs (RSACs)

The Regional Student Activities Chairs (RSACs) represent each of the ten Regions of IEEE. These volunteer members help organize student activities in these areas, including student paper contests, website contests for Student Branches, and other interesting activities so you as IEEE Student members can be more actively involved.

  • Region 1, Ali Abedi
  • Region 2, Li Bai
  • Region 3, Bailey Heyman
  • Region 4, Jonathan Wolf
  • Region 5, Colleen Bailey
  • Region 6, Heather Monigan
  • Region 7, Saida Maaroufi
  • Region 8, Abdullateef Aliyu
  • Region 9, Yessica Giraldo Tique
  • Region 10, Jennifer Dela Cruz

Other SAC Representatives

Students are important to many components of IEEE. Several other organizational units with IEEE are represented within SAC to help provide information to this committee and to share information about student activities with the rest of IEEE.

  • Member-Initiative Lead, Khaldoun Taktak
  • Member-Initiative Lead, Augusto Herrera
  • Industrial Representative, Vamsi Krishna J
  • IEEE Potentials Magazine Student Editor, Zoya Shafique
  • TAB Representative to SAC, Robert Caverly
  • HKN Representative to SAC, Michael Benson

Committee Chairs

Student Activities has several primary initiatives to provide opportunities to our student members. These are the chairs of these initiatives.

  • Professional Activities (SPAx) Chair, Adil Usman
  • Virtual Speakers (VSB) Chair, Cybele Ghanem
  • IEEEXtreme Chair, Adwaith Satheesh
  • Awards and Recognition Chair, Warunika Hippola
  • IEEE Potentials Magazine Editor-in-Chief, Athanasios Kakarountas

Regional Student Representatives (RSRs)

The Regional Student representatives (RSRs) represent each of the ten Regions of IEEE. These volunteer members are students. They help organize student activities in these areas, including student paper contests, website contests for Student Branches, and other interesting activities and programs, so you as IEEE Student members get engaged and more actively involved.

  • Region 1, Howard Sargent
  • Region 2, Jenna Fazio
  • Region 3, Kennedy Mays
  • Region 4, Stephen Messing
  • Region 5, Jaiden Strong
  • Region 6, Darin Tsui
  • Region 7, Azfar Adib
  • Region 8, Ahmed Abouelnour
  • Region 9, Danny Xie
  • Region 10, Warunika Hippola
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