About the Committee
The task of the committee is, broadly speaking, to provide events and services that address needs and encourage participation of our underrepresented demographics, while being of interest and use to the community at large.
A recent presentation on this Outreach Committee was given to the officers of the IT Society.
As part of this effort, we have identified mentoring as being an important component of success and a particular challenge for some of our members. We are therefore setting up a mentor/mentee network, *open to all*. A typical mentor/mentee pairing would a faculty member or professional in industry mentoring a graduate student or postdoc; a senior faculty or industry researcher mentoring a junior faculty or researcher. We would strongly encourage mentees to become also mentors currently or in the future. We hope eventually to extend this program further to undergraduates, so that we may have be a graduate student mentoring an undergraduate student.
A mentor/mentee relationship would be a priori a three year one. A mentor would agree to communicating with his/her mentee roughly every month or two to provide professional advice and feedback. We also plan to have a yearly mentor/mentee breakfast at ISIT. The mentor/mentee list will be posted on our new Society web site. A mentee should be part of the IEEE IT Society for the duration of the mentoring period.
Open position: Chief Scientist in Information Theory
