Mentoring IT

We have identified mentoring as being an important component of success and a particular challenge for some of our society members. We will therefore continue our successful mentorship program, open to all. A typical mentor/mentee pairing would be a faculty member or professional in industry mentoring a graduate student or postdoc, or 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. A mentor/mentee relationship will be a priori a two year one. A mentor will agree to communicating with his/her mentee roughly a few times per year to provide professional advice and feedback, e.g., by helping the mentee with proposal writing or by introducing him to potential collaborators. We are also having a yearly mentor/mentee social event at ISIT. The only requirement for our mentoring program is that a mentor/mentee should be part of the IEEE IT Society for the duration of the mentoring period.