Clementina Saduwa Award Recipients

2018 Clementina Saduwa Award Recipient

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Dr. Ana Katalinic Mucalo was born in 1980 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1999 she started her studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, where she graduated in 2005 and obtained her PhD degree in 2013.

Since graduation, she has been with the Radiocommunications Department at the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) as a senior Expert for Microwave and Satellite Networks, dealing mostly with frequency planning and interference analysis of fixed point-to-point and satellite links, as well as with cross-border coordination for fixed networks. She has been actively engaged in several working groups within the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), namely the working group SE (Spectrum Engineering), which deals with compatibility studies and development of sharing criteria between different radiocommunications services and provides technical background for ECC decisions and recommendations, as well as the project team SE19, which deals with fixed services. She was the head of the Commission for development of the Strategy for the transition of Digital Terrestrial Television to DVB-T2 system and allocation of the Second Digital Dividend, appointed by Croatian Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure. She made considerable contribution on national legislation for fixed service, and supported the implementation of new programs and infrastructure transformation from European Union pre-accession funds as part of the Project Implementation Unit within HAKOM.

She has published 30 scientific and technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. She participated as a researcher in the European Union funded project for wireless communications COST2100 and IC1004.

She is an active IEEE member and has served in several volunteering positions: R8 Professional Activities Subcommittee Chair 2015-2016, R8 Young Professionals Subcommittee member 2013-2014, Croatia Section GOLD Affinity Group (AG) Chair 2010-2012, and Croatia Section secretary 2013-2016. She currently serves as the Croatia Section Vice-chair.

2017 Clementina Saduwa Award Winner

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Dr. Daniela Danciu, winner of the prestigious Clementina Saduwa Award 2017

Dr. Daniela Danciu from IEEE Romania Section is an IEEE Senior member and a member of IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). She is the Chair of the Craiova local division (since 2012) of SRAIT (the Romanian Society of Automation and Information Technology) – the Romanian NMO of IFAC.
 
Dr. Daniela Danciu received the engineer degree (equivalent M.Sc. degree) in Automation and Computers as well as the PhD Cum Laude degree in Automatic Control from University of Craiova (UCV), in 1990 and 2003, respectively. In 2000, she joined the Department of Automatic Control at UCV as a Lecturer. Dr. Daniela Danciu is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Automation and Electronics at UCV. Her research covers different aspects in the area of qualitative analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems including time delay systems, systems with multiple equilibria as well as recurrent neural networks.A rather recent research interest considers neural computing for solving Partial Differential Equations with non‐standard boundary conditions which model distributed parameter systems (DPS) arising from science fields and engineering applications.She is the author of two monographs (in Romanian) and the author/co-author of more than 65 scientific publications in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.
 
Dr. Daniela Danciu considers that, in order to encourage and support young women in developing  their engineering carrier, some simple and efficient actions for any academic member and/or researcher can be: self-example, involving them within research projects teams (as graduate/doctoral students), counseling in the difficult moments of their path to a professional carrier as well as in their professional life (individual advice, but also through organized activities).
 
The message of Dr. Daniela Danciu at the award ceremony (March 25, 2017 during the 108th IEEE Region 8 Committee meeting gala dinner in Stockholm – Sweden): “In memoriam of Clementina Saduwa, I would like to dedicate this prize to all the women from the IEEE community for their roles in professional environment as well as in society. I thank to all the valuable people that I have met in my life and who shaped my personality and the will to become better. I would also like to thank to the IEEE Region 8 award committee for deciding to award this prize to me – it was my best ever present for the International Women’s Day. Thank, you all! Let us be better!”

2016 Clementina Saduwa Award Winner

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The 2016 winner of the prestigious Clementina Saduwa Award is Dr. Nazre Batool.

Nazre is an IEEE and IEEE WIE member. She is also a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).
Nazre received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 2014 with the specialization in signal processing and research focus on computer vision and pattern recognition. Her PhD studies were funded by the prestigious 5 years USA Fulbright PhD scholarship. Her doctoral research was novel and complementary to the mainstream research in facial analysis where she worked on the analysis of facial micro-features specifically wrinkles for different applications in computer vision such as localization, inpainting, soft biometrics and monitoring. Her research highlighted the effectiveness of facial micro feature analysis and resulted in 2 first-authored journal publications, 4 first-authored conference publications and a book chapter.

After completing PhD, she moved to Europe and joined AYIN team at INRIA Sophia Antipolis in February, 2014, where she advanced her research on facial micro feature analysis in collaboration with an industrial partner. In a career move to pursue research in medical imaging, Nazre joined the Center for Medical Image science and Visualization (CMIV) at Linköping University, Sweden in June 2015. Her research at CMIV was conducted in close collaboration with the pathology department, University Hospital Linköping, and with the industrial partner, Sectra AB, in the area of digital histopathology. Her work focused on finding spatial patterns in digital liver steatosis biopsy slides as biomarkers. At CMIV, she has also contributed towards the statistical analysis of Diffusion Tensor MRI to model fibers in the brain white matter. At present, she is a post-doc at the School of Technology and Health (STH), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where she is working on medical applications in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute of Sweden.
Nazre comes from a small northeastern city, Jhelum, of Pakistan. She received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 2004. After working as a researcher for some time in Lahore, she secured a graduate fellowship and moved to Malaysia in 2005 for her postgraduate studies at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia. Her Master’s research was conducted in collaboration with the dermatological department, General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur and focused on the image-based analysis of skin lesions for Psoriasis patients. Her research included the acquisition and analysis of 3D skin surface textures using 3d laser scanners and generative image modeling techniques. She received here M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia in 2008.
Nazre’s long term career goal is to establish herself as an inter-disciplinary researcher (focusing on medical imaging), based in academia and providing cutting-edge computer vision solutions to industry. A cherished achievement for her would be to develop or be a part of cross-border and cross-discipline research collaborations specifically providing the academic and research supervision of an international level to Pakistani students.

Biography source: http://www.femmesetsciences.fr/actualites/nazre-batool-prix-clementina-saduwa-2016

2014 Clementina Saduwa Award Winner

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IEEE Region 8 happy to announce that the winner of the Clementina Saduwa Award for 2014 is Ms. Monique Jeanne Morrow from Switzerland!

Clementina Saduwa was a tireless and extremely effective volunteer student leader a few years back, when the IEEE Nigeria Section was being revived, and she went on to become the first ever IEEE Region 8 Women In Engineering (WIE) Coordinator. In January 2007, She was killed in a random act of violence and left behind her husband and young daughter. She was 29 years old.

To honour her rule and work throughout the years, IEEE Women In Engineering and IEEE Region 8 have named the award for the recognition of women engineer in Region 8 who, through their engineering and career achievements, has demonstrated noteworthy support for women in the profession and has established a benchmark of engineering excellence.

This years recipient holds the title of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Cisco Services, with a focus of developing strategic technology and business architectures for Cisco customers and partners. She has over twenty years of experience in the field of computer inter-networks, and a pristine record of innovations. She also has a brilliant history of urging women to take ownership of their careers and “writing their own script” for the future. On this subject she has presented to the European Parliament. She is passionate about advancing Girls in ICT and Women in Technology.

In the photo, from left to right: Martin Bastiaans (IEEE Region 8 Director), Joyce Mwangama (IEEE R8 WIE Coordinator), Monique Morrow (Clementina Saduwa Award 2014 Recipient), Howard Michel (Candidate for IEEE 2014 President-Elect).

 

 

2013 Clementina Saduwa Award Winner

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The winner of 2013 Clementina Saduwa award is Professor Fatma E. Z. Abou-Chadi from Mansoura University from the Egypt Section, for her professional and personal achievements.

Who is Clementina Saduwa? 

Clementina Saduwa was a tireless and extremely effective volunteer student leader a few years back, when the IEEE Nigeria Section was being revived, and she went on to become the first ever IEEE Region 8 Women In Engineering (WIE) Coordinator. In January 2007, she was killed in a random act of violence and leaves behind her husband and young daughter. She was 29 years old. To honor her rule and work throughout the years, WIE has named the award for the recognition of women engineer in Region 8 who, through their engineering and career achievements, have demonstrated noteworthy support for women in the profession and have established a benchmark of engineering excellence after her name

Objectives of the Award:

Objectives of the Award is to recognize a women engineer in Region 8 who, through her engineering and career achievements, has demonstrated noteworthy support for women in the profession and have established a benchmark of engineering.

The final decision of a committee composed of 4 past and present members of the IEEE WIE R8 committee members, was based on various aspects, including CV, personal statement, level of difficulties in achieving a professional career, reference letters, level of involvement of referees.

In the photo, from left to right: Martin Bastiaans (IEEE Region 8 Director), Joyce Mwangama (IEEE Region 8 WIE Coordinator), Fatma Abou-Chadi (Award recipient), Peter Staecker (IEEE President and CEO 2013)

2012 Clementina Saduwa Award Winner

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The winner of 2012 Clementina Saduwa Award is Dr. Wejdan Abu-Elhaija, for her professional and personal achievements.

Dr. Wejdan Abu-Elhaija from the Jordan Section, is a professor in Electrical Machines and currently, she is the Dean of King Abdullah II School for Electrical Engineering at her University at the Princess Sumaya University for Science and Technology.  The award ceremony took place during the IEEE R8 Committee meeting that was held in Berlin on March 31st, 2012.

2011 Clementina Saduwa Award‏ Winner

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The winner of 2011 Clementina Saduwa Award is Dr. Ilhem Kallel from Tunisia for her professional and personal achievements. She can serve as a role model for combining professional achievements and family life. We would like to congratulate her!
The contest was having a great challenge between the contestants who show a very high level of achievements. The final decision of a jury composed of 5, was based on various aspects, not only CV but also statement, level of difficulties in achieving a professional career, reference letters, level of involvement of referees among others.

2010 Clementina Saduwa Award‏ Winner

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We would like to congratulate the winner of 2009 Clementina Saduwa Award Dr. Elena Smotrova from Ukraine.

The contest was having a great challenge between the contestants who shows a very high level of achievements.
The final decision of a jury composed of 5, was based in various aspects, not only CV but also, statement, level of difficulties in achieving a professional career, reference letters, how international these were, level of involvement of referees, among others.
Keep up the good work Dr. Elena and wish you all the success in your life and career.

In the photo, from left to right: Bashayer Al-Awwad (Region 8 Women In Engineering coordinator), Jozef Modelski (OpCom director), Elena Smotrova (Ukrain Section Chair), and Pilar Molina Gaudo (Region 8 Vice Chair of Membership Activities).