Dr. Vineetha Menon is the IEEE-HKN Excellent Younger Skilled for 2021.
Michael Mercier | UAH
Dr. Vineetha Menon, assistant professor within the Department of Computer Science and director of the Massive Knowledge Analytics Lab at The College of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of the College of Alabama System, has been named the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Excellent Younger Skilled for 2021.
The award, made by the IEEE Academic Actions Board, is for exemplary contributions that uphold the core values of IEEE-HKN via scholarship in multidisciplinary huge knowledge functions analysis and for management, mentoring and empowerment of girls and minorities in STEM.
Dr. Menon was nominated by Dr. S.Ok. Ramesh, the IEEE-HKN president in 2016 and one of many 2022 IEEE presidential candidates. Dr. Ramesh is a professor {of electrical} and pc engineering and the previous dean of the School of Engineering and Laptop Science at California State College, Northridge.
“Being acknowledged because the 2021 IEEE-HKN Excellent Younger Skilled in these difficult instances was a really humbling expertise,” says Dr. Menon, who will participate in an IEEE digital recognition occasion in November. “I wish to thank IEEE and IEEE-HKN for creating great platforms for younger professionals to observe their aspirations and make impacts within the society.”
Since 2011, Dr. Menon has held world management roles and brought half in skilled actions within the IEEE, IEEE-HKN and IEEE Women in Engineering communities.
Final yr, she was chosen by the Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medication as one in all 20 recipients of a Gulf Analysis Program Early-Career Research Fellowship.
At UAH, Dr. Menon has collaborated to expedite a COVID-19 drug discovery course of utilizing Massive Knowledge analytics with Dr. Jerome Baudry, the Mrs. Pei-Ling Chan Chair within the Department of Biological Sciences. She collaborated to develop a customized AI-based stress monitoring and detection system to deal with healthcare employee stresses throughout COVID-19 with Dr. Emil Jovanov, a professor within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
“My achievements at the moment wouldn’t have been doable with out the assist of an important division, great colleagues and supportive faculty of science that encourages cross-disciplinary collaborations,” she says.
Dr. Menon can also be the school advisor for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the ACM-W ladies’s chapter at UAH, and he or she sponsors actions that embody pupil mentoring, recruiting and outreach.
She is dedicated to selling and growing the variety of ladies and minorities in Science Know-how Engineering and Arithmetic (STEM) fields.
“This award is a accountability,” Dr. Menon says. “It invigorates me to proceed my pursuit of multidisciplinary analysis to deal with difficult scientific issues, assist my college students excel in class and their professions, and dedicate my life in service to the bigger scientific and non-scientific group.”
Previously the Excellent Younger Electrical Engineer award, the IEEE Excellent Younger Skilled award has been introduced yearly since 1936. It’s introduced to distinctive younger engineers who’ve demonstrated vital accomplishments of their profession. Many recipients of this award have gone on to make main contributions to {the electrical} and pc engineering fields and maintain noteworthy positions in academia, trade and authorities.
With over 400,000 members globally in over 160 international locations, IEEE and its members encourage a worldwide group to innovate for a greater tomorrow and is the trusted voice for engineering, computing and know-how info across the globe.
