Each year the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) rotates out the five Members-at-Large whose term on the AdCom will be ending in December. This is done through the annual SSCS AdCom Election, which is organized by the SSCS Nominations Committee and chaired by the current SSCS Past President. For the 2025-2027 and 2026-2028 terms, John Long chaired the Nominations Committee. For the 2027-2029 and 2028-2030 terms, Bill Bowhill is chair.
The role of a Member-at-Large 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. Members-at-Large, 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 and 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 candidates who were elected to serve as 2026-2028 Members-at-Large, and thank all of the candidates and the Nominations Committee. The new Members-at-Large who took office on January 1, 2026, are:
- Massimo Alioto
- Chris Mangelsdorf
- Ken Takeuchi
- Kea-Tiong (Samuel) Tang
- Jerald Yoo
Questions?
If you have any questions, please email the Society Administrative Office.
Petition Process for AdCom Candidacy
If a Society member is not on the announced slate, they can petition to be on the slate.
Society members who are interested in nominating a colleague, or themselves, by petition should notify the SSCS Executive Office by email () no later than August 1, 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 August 31, 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 website (to be provided by IEEE), or
- with an original signature on a hard copy petition.
Hard copy petitions must be received by the SSCS Executive office by August 31 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.
To qualify for the slate, IEEE policy requires a petition candidate to collect signatures from 2% of the eligible voters. Signatures are verified during the petition process (additional signatures above the minimum are recommended as a safety factor.)