The role of a MAL is to understand the society’s strategic plan, and consider and vote on motions aimed at supporting our strategy through new or modified programs and services. MALs, along with other AdCom members, are responsible for providing financial oversight, ensuring adequate resources for SSCS to fulfill its mission, ensuring legal and ethical integrity, effective organizational planning, recruiting and orienting new AdCom members, and enhancing SSCS’s public standing through involvement in the society’s various committees.
We congratulate the five new Members-at-Large who will be taking office on January 1, 2025 for a three-year term: Ping-Hsuan Hsieh, S. Zeynep Lulec, Danilo Manstretta, Kenichi Okada, and Maurits Ortmanns.
We also thank the five Members-at-Large whose term ends on December 31 for their service: Danielle Griffith, Chulwoo Kim, Yusuke Oike, Woogeun Rhee, and Farhana Sheikh.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please email the Society Administrative Office.
Petition Process for AdCom Candidacy
If a Society Member was not on the announced slate, they can petition to be on the slate.
Society members who are interested in nominating a colleague(s), or themselves, by petition should notify the SSCS Executive Office by email () no later than August 1 of a given year, and include a statement verifying the nominee’s agreement to be a candidate. Once a petitioner’s eligibility is verified, he/she may be posted to the petition site until September 1, when the petition process closes.
Any voting member of the Society may sign such petitions in either one of two ways:
- via a link to the petition site provided on a webpage or
- with an original signature on a hard copy petition.
Hard copy petitions must be received by the SSCS Executive office by 31 August to be entered into the IEEE petition system.
There is no official IEEE hard copy petition form for society elections. Each handwritten petition form must include:
- the name of the candidate
- the title of the position the candidate is running for
For each person signing the petition:
- name (printed)
- IEEE member number
- signature
If all the signatures on the petition are valid—active members with their dues paid—the petition candidate’s name, biography, and photo will appear online and on the printed ballot.
A petition candidate needs approximately 300 signatures of SSCS members in good standing—or about 2% of the membership—to qualify for the slate, as defined by IEEE Bylaw I-308.16 as of 31 December, 2011. Signatures are verified during the petition process (additional signatures above the minimum are recommended as a safety factor).