IEEE R8 Young Professionals Subcommittee 2021
The Region 8 Young Professionals subcommittee’s task is to create awareness of and to promote Young Professionals programs in the Region. The subcommittee acts as an active promoter, resource, and liaison for sections, affinity groups, and student branches to generate and support YP activities.
Contact us at: ma-yp@ieeer8.org!
The Young Professionals subcommittee in Region 8 is made up of Young Professional volunteers from Region 8:
Vinko Lesic Past Chair Croatia Section |
Almedin Kavaz Chair Germany Section |
Seif ElHajjem Member Tunisia Section |
Inês Inácio Member Benelux Section |
Gerard Duff Member Sweden Section |
Rawan El Jamal Member Lebanon Section |
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Weizhi Meng Member Denmark Section |
Barbara Vujkov Corresponding Member Serbia and Montenegro Section |
Ali Alfayly Corresponding Member Kuwait Section |
Omer Melih Gul Corresponding Member Turkey Section |
José Miguel A. Sepulcre Corresponding Member Spain Section |
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YP Affinity Group Chairs
Below are the contact details for the chairs of the Region 8 Young Professionals Affinity Groups (AG), to help you to get in contact with each other, exchange ideas and experiences on events and activities, and plan future collaborations.
Full list of IEEE Region 8 Section Chairs can be found here.
Full list of worldwide Young Professionals affinity groups can be found here.
Section |
AG Chair Name |
AG Chair email |
Algeria | Hicham Berkouk | hicham.berkouk@outlook.com |
Austria | ||
Bahrain | ||
Benelux | ||
Bosnia & Herzegovina | Tarik Hubana | tarik.hubana@gmail.com |
Bulgaria | ||
Croatia | Filip Lipovac | filip.lipovac@ieee.org |
Cyprus | George Michael | xeirwn@ieee.org |
Czechoslovakia | Jan Belohoubek | belik@sfortelem.cz |
Denmark | Weizhi Meng | yuxin.meng@my.cityu.edu.hk |
Egypt | Muhammad Elshazly | elshazlymi@gmail.com |
Estonia | Aleksei Tepljakov | alex@starspirals.net |
Finland | Behrouz Jedari | bjedari@ieee.org |
France | Vladimir-Alexandru Paun | vladimir.alexandru.paun@gmail.com |
Germany | Ahmed Hussein | ahmed.hussein@ieee.org |
Ghana | ||
Greece | Panos Kotsampopoulos | kotsa@power.ece.ntua.gr |
Hungary | Adrienn Katona | kadri96@gmail.com |
Iraq | ||
Israel | Aleksey Dyskin | aleks.dyskin@gmail.com |
Italy | Federica Battisti | federica.battisti@unipd.it |
Jordan | Haya Yousef AlAreeni | hayayousef1994@gmail.com |
Kenya | Kithinji Muriungi | muriungi254@ieee.org |
Kuwait | Ali Hussain Alfayly | ah.alfayly@paaet.edu.kw |
Lebanon | Lyne Sidawi | lyne.sidawi@gmail.com |
Lithuania | Eldar Sabanovic | eldar.sabanovic@vgtu.lt |
Malta | Mark Said Camilleri | markscamilleri@gmail.com |
Morocco | Zoubida Alaoui Mdaghri | zoubida.alaoui.m@gmail.com |
Nigeria | Haruna Gana | haruna.d.gana@ieee.org |
Norway | Reza Arghandeh | reza.arghandeh@hvl.no |
Oman | Amer Zayeg | amer@mec.edu.om |
Palestine | Lana Nassir | lananasir@ieee.org |
Poland | Konrad Markowski | markowski.work@gmail.com |
Portugal | Ines Trigo Alves | itrigo@ieee.org |
Qatar | Onur Karmis | onurkarmis@gmail.com |
Republic of Macedonia | Dean Petreski | petreski@ieee.org |
Romania | Nicoleta Arghira | arghira.nicoleta@gmail.com |
Russia | Evgeny Zamburg | zamburg.evgeniy@gmail.com |
Russia (Siberia) | Kirill Zeyde | k.m.zeyde@urfu.ru |
Saudi-Arabia East | Raghad Alkhalefah | |
Saudi-Arabia West | Ibrahim Nasar | ibrahim.nasar@ieee.org |
Serbia and Montenegro | Nikola Vukajlovic | nikolavuk@uns.ac.rs |
Slovenia | Blaz Bertalanic | ajshil@gmail.com |
South Africa, Pretoria | Ayokunle Damilola Familua | ayokunle.familua@ieee.org |
South Africa, Cape Town | Hilary Chisepo | hchisepo@gmail.com |
Spain | Arturo Medina | arturomedina@ieee.org |
Sweden | Gerard Duff | gerardduff@ieee.org |
Switzerland | Joana Machado | joanacsmo@gmail.com |
Tunisia | Alaa Abdallah | ala.abdallah.enim@ieee.org |
Turkey | Omer Gul | omgul@metu.edu.tr |
Ukraine | Kateryna Ivanko | koondoo@gmail.com |
United Arab Emirates | Eman Abushabab | eshabab@ud.ac.ae |
United Kingdom & Ireland | Noel Gomes | noelgomes@ieee.org |