Unlocking your Inner Leader: Strategies for Effective Managing and Advising - Hosted by Women in Circuits

Date

2023-05-11

Time

12 PM ET

Location

Webinar - Online

Contact

Aeisha VanBuskirk – a.vanbuskirk@ieee.org

Sponsorship

Sponsor

Presenter

Edith Beigne, Khushali Shah and Anne-Johan Annema

Description

Unlocking your Inner Leader:

 

Strategies for Effective Managing and Advising

All are welcome, including non-IEEE members!

 

When: Thur, 11 May, 2023, 12 noon - 1:15PM ET 

 

Moderators: Deeksha Lal, Awani Khodkumbhe

 

Abstract:

 

This webinar is for you if you have - 

• wondered if managing or leading people is for you

• questioned if your team’s culture and impact could be managed differently

• been a chip or team leader but want to up your game

• felt like your career is stuck in office politics

• ever had a toxic manager or advisor

• wished for a psychologically safe work or school environment

• struggled to respond in situations of team conflict

• been unable to negotiate graduation or promotion with your advisor or manager

 

We invite three senior professionals with stellar managing, mentoring, and leadership experience, both in the industry and academia. They will share personal roadmaps to their management roles - and the whys and hows of what got them there. Live Q&A session will follow after 15-minute talks from the speakers.

 

Panelists:

 

Edith Beigne, Director, Silicon Research, Meta, US

 

Bio: 

 

Edith Beigné is the Research Director of AR/VR Silicon at Meta Reality Labs where she leads research projects driving the future of AR devices. Her main research interests are low-power digital and mixed-signal circuits and design with emerging technologies. Over the past 20 years, she has been focusing her research on low power and adaptive circuit techniques, exploiting new design techniques and advanced technology nodes for different applications ranging from high performance multi-processors to ultra-low power SoC, and, more recently, AR/VR applications. She was the TPC chair of ISSCC 2022 and vice-general chair of ISSCC 2024. Distinguished Lecturer for the SSCS in 2016/2017, Women-in-Circuits Committee chair and JSSC Associate Editor since 2018. She visited Stanford University in 2018 to research emerging technologies and new architectures.

 

She has a broad experience in managing teams of research scientists in both Academia and Industry, for the past 25 years. Working in ambiguity has been part of her entire career. She has focused on cultivating diverse teams by hiring diverse talents and setting them up for success. She is a strong believer that diversity and inclusion lead to powerful and successful teams with tangible and measurable positive outcomes for organizations.

 

 

Khushali Shah, Senior Manager, RFIC Design, pSemi, US

 

Bio: 

 

Khushali Shah is a Senior Manager for RFIC design at pSemi. She received her MS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, where she was a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship. Since 2011, she has been at pSemi, a Murata company, managing the design of RFICs for front-end circuits, including Low Noise Amplifiers, Antenna Switches and Couplers. She has led teams through conception, architecture, circuit design, layout, test, qualification, and to production of multiple generations of successful products. She has also contributed significantly to organizational process improvement projects at pSemi, leading to many design wins at Apple, Samsung and the APAC market. She is the inventor and co-inventor of 10+ US issued patents, and US filed patents.  She believes in a people-first management policy and likes to deliver innovative products with quality.

 

Anne-Johan Annema, Associate Professor, University of Twente, Netherlands

 

Bio: 

 

Anne-Johan Annema received the MSc. and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. In 1995, he joined Philips Research in Eindhoven, where he worked on physics-electronics-related projects. This included self-learning electronic systems and feasibility studies of conventional (analog) electronics in (then) future IC technologies, aiming at maximizing their joint performance potential. This yielded among others concepts for low-power low-voltage circuits, work on fundamental limits on analog circuits in conjunction with process technologies, high-voltage circuits in low-voltage CMOS technologies and feasibility research of future CMOS processes for analog circuits.

Since 2000 he is with the IC-Design group in the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands where the research focus still is on physics, analog and mixed-signal electronics, and deep- submicrometer technologies and their joint feasibility aspects. He is also part-time consultant in industry and in 2001 he co-founded ChipDesignWorks. Anne-Johan is the recipient of a number of educational awards in multiple studies at the University of Twente. 

 

His education and supervision approach is ”serious fun”: aiming at understanding the matter (in contrast to only remembering and replicating) as well as aiming at intrinsic motivation and interest, usually mixed with some unexpected angles and with fun activities. He used to officially mentor students for many years; these days doing that only unofficially. From 2017 to 2020 he was program director Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente; he chairs the faculty and UT scholarship committees.