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Election

About Leadership Election

2024-2025 ECEDHA Secretary Elections

 

We are pleased to announce the 2024-2025 candidates for Secretary. 

 

Active ECEDHA Members are encouraged to vote. 

 

 

Voting will be open until Wednesday, May 15, 2024 

 

Secretary Candidate Interviews 

 

 

About the Candidates

 

Deidra Hodges

ECE Department Chair/Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Florida International University

Dr. Deidra R. Hodges is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University. Dr. Hodges is an exceptional leader in photovoltaics (PV) and solar energy research with extensive experience in PV and X- and gamma-ray radiation detectors for National Security. Dr. Hodges is highly focused in advancing Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Nuclear Materials and Extreme Photon Sensing. Her contributions include the support and development of the pixilated cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) gamma detector at BNL, and highly efficient thin-film mixed perovskite halides photovoltaics. She has achieved perovskite solar cell power conversion efficiencies greater than 21%, approaching the world record efficiency of 25.2%. Her network spans Department of Energy government laboratories including Idaho National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Kansas City National Security Center Honeywell FM&T, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, collaborating with Scientists and as a user of facilities.

 

Michael Wu

Department Head, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Arizona

Hongyi "Michael" Wu is a professor and the department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. He received a BS degree in scientific instruments from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1996, an MS degree in electrical engineering and a PhD degree in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 2000 and 2002, respectively. His current research focuses on security and privacy in intelligent computing and communication systems. He served as a PI or Co-PI for over 50 projects with more than $23M in funding from NSF, NSA, DOD, DOE, NATO, State governments, and industry partners. He published more than 160 technical articles in journals and conference proceedings and acquired a US patent. He chaired several conferences, including IEEE Infocom 2020. He sat on the editorial board of several journals, such as serving as an Area Editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2022-present) and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2022-present), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2018-present), IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2014-2018), and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2013-2016). He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2004, UL Lafayette Distinguished Professor Award in 2011, and IEEE Percom Mark Weiser Best Paper Award in 2018. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

 

 

Voting will close on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Thank you for participating!