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Empower your future with a MS Engineering degree specializing in Smart Sustainable Energy Systems from San Jose State University. Our hybrid program is suitable for working professionals and provides students with the knowledge and technical skills required to formulate, analyze, and solve complex problems related to the optimal design and integration of sustainable energy sources into the modern power networks. Learn more at our upcoming virtual information sessions.

1/20, 12:00 pm, SCV RAS, Telepresence And How It Is Changing Our Society, Virtual Event
From tele-health to tele-education and teleoperation; overview technical aspects of telepresence; symbiosis between teleoperations and autonomy, and the role of AI.

1/20, 3:00 pm, SCV IMS, Robust Wireless Interrogation of Fully-Passive RLC Sensors, Virtual Event
Fully passive sensor with the minimum number of components is preferred over the existing legacy sensors such as NFC, RFID, BLE, etc

1/20, 6:00 pm, SCV CASS, Accelerator Architectures for Training Deep Neural Networks, Virtual Event
Training deep neural networks requires orders of magnitude more energy and latency; reducing latency interleave gradient computations using systolic arrays; simultaneous intra-layer and inter-layer pipelining.

1/25, 6 pm, SCV CS, Sustainable AI @ Scale: Accelerating AI Models for Billions of Users, Virtual Event
AI is a foundational technology at Meta: used to identify relevant and interesting content, to translate content to transcend language barriers, and identifying inappropriate content, such as bullying, domestic violence, and terrorism.

1/26, 6:30 pm, SCV LMAG TEMS PES/IAS, Rapid Iterations in Nuclear Innovation: A Key to Fighting Climate Change, Virtual Event
Affordable clean energy: fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor combines existing technologies in a novel way, using high-temperature fuels from gas-cooled reactors with a low-pressure molten salt coolant.

1/27, 11:00 am, SFBA PELS, PES/IAS, SMART Power Flow Controllers – A Necessity for Future Power Grid, Virtual Event
Transfer bulk power; use transmission lines more efficiently; harness dormant capacity to increase the power flows to the lines' thermal limits.

2/2, 12:00 pm, SCV CTSoc, CES 2022 Download by IEEE Consumer Technology Society, Virtual Event
Annual sharing of the new and unusual things seen at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January; highlights and major themes.

2/8, 7:00 pm, SCV CNSV, The Consulting Career Option, Virtual Event
A panel of seasoned consultants will provide a set of case studies to teach attendees about the ins and out of life as a technical consultant.

2/15, 6:00 pm, SCV CS, Nature-inspired Optimization Algorithms Applied to Control Systems, Virtual Event
Applications to tune the parameters of the fuzzy logic controller of a nonlinear magnetic levitation system, and an energy management system for a residential microgrid.

2/24, 5:30 pm, SCV TEMS YP, Characteristics of Successful Tech Hubs and Start-ups; Lessons from the Origin and Growth of Silicon Valley, Virtual Event
Entrepreneurs, early angel investors, patent issues, innovation spirit, SV characteristics

3/22, 12:00 pm, SCV CS, Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with Björn Schuller, Virtual Event
Please send your questions in advance. Select questions will be answered by Prof. Schuller of Imperial College, London, UK during the session. Audience may be able to ask follow-up questions during the session.

Calling all Santa Clara Valley Roboticists and Autonomists, we need your help to bring the local Robotics and Automation Society chapter back to life! Robots are just too cool not to have an active chapter in Silicon Valley. Membership in RAS for IEEE members is only $9 for a year. We need new officers and events. On January 20, 2022 at noon, we will have an exciting virtual event focusing on Telepresence to get things kicked off. Register at: events.vtools.ieee.org/m/293012.

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Internet Society Operating Committee (SFBay ISOC) is seeking new members of the Board of Directors (volunteer positions). Our Chapter supports ISOC's mission by funding projects, hosting it's popular Tech Policy Webinar series, and engaging our membership (1000+) in issues related to the Internet. We bridge to the larger ISOC community and many more leading-edge initiatives and projects. Find out more at sfbayisoc.org/home/ and apply before January 31, 2022. Further details and links to the application form are available at sfbayisoc.org/board-candidates-elections-2022/.

The Sustainability Chapter is currently looking for new members for its Executive Committee! Please see site.ieee.org/scv-sust/ if you would like to get involved in helping to organize events.

SFBA EDS is seeking candidates to apply for positions on the organizing executive committee in 2022, specifically webmaster/communications director and secretary. We also welcome applications for treasurer, vice-chair, and chair. If you are interested in getting involved in any way, please email vijay_narasimhan@ieee.org, EDS SCV Chapter Chair. site.ieee.org/scv-eds/call-for-officers/.

IEEE San Francisco Section is excited to announce the new Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group. Join the group and take advantage of technical and professional activities empowering Women in Engineering. If you're interested, please contact the Group Founder at ksalima@ieee.org.

OEB ComSoc The OEB Communications Society is looking for fresh people to fill its Chair and Treasurer positions to revitalize the chapter. Please contact Ron Kane at kane@ieee.org if you are interested.

OEB PES, Speakers and topics of interest requested! Let us know what topics you would like to know about so we can better meet the needs of our community. Please contact Rosanna Lerma at rosanna@edesignc.com.

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