HUMANS OF IEEE SIGHT: Nirupama Prakash Kumar

Nirupama Prakash Kumar is currently serving as the 2019 IEEE Humanitarian Activity Committee (HAC) Projects Chair. Outside of IEEE, Nirupama Prakash Kumar works as a Sr. Product Manager at Microgrids. She has shared her thoughts and experience with SIGHT in an interview with the SIGHT Communications Chair, Celia Shahnaz.   What inspired you to join…
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Humans of IEEE SIGHT: Kip Sikes

Kip Sikes is the founder of IEEE SIGHT Treasure Valley group, Boise Section, Idaho (Region 6) and also the Past Chair of IEEE Boise Section joint PES/IAS Chapter. Since first establishing a local SIGHT group with engineering professionals, he has also been focusing on mentoring high-potential youth to engage in humanitarian work prior to their university experience, including…
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Humans of IEEE SIGHT: Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan

Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan has been the IEEE SIGHT Projects Chair for the past three years. Outside of IEEE, Sampath works as a Technical Program Manager at Amazon. Celia Shahnaz, the IEEE SIGHT 2017 Communications Chair, interviewed Sampath. What inspired you to join IEEE SIGHT? Explain is it a suggestion from a friend or any inspiration from some professors?…
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Humans of IEEE SIGHT: Kartik Kulkarni, Former Chair of the SIGHT Steering Committee

Kartik Kulkarni guided IEEE SIGHT as the Global Steering Committee Chair in the organization’s earliest years from its founding in 2013 until December 2016. In his day job, Mr. Kulkarni holds a technical staff position at Oracle in Redwood City, California (USA), and he continues to volunteer with IEEE SIGHT R6. Celia Shahnaz, SIGHT’s 2017 Communications…
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Humans of IEEE SIGHT: Alexandros Osana, IEEE Region 8 SIGHT Coordinator

Alexandros Osana, IEEE Region 8 SIGHT Coordinator, shares his inspiration to work with SIGHT and memorable moments from his time as a volunteer. Mr. Osana is interviewed by Celia Shahnaz, Professor of electrical and electronics engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka. 1. What inspired you to join IEEE SIGHT? When…
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Introducing Tim Lee, SIGHT’s New Steering Committee Chair

I have been an IEEE member for over thirty years but it was only during the last 15 years that I became an IEEE volunteer. When I moved to the Los Angeles area for my new job, after having grown up in the mid-Atlantic region of United States, I decided to join the 1999 IEEE…
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A Vision for SIGHT’s Future: Parting Words from Kartik Kulkarni

Throughout the institution, IEEE is in the midst of a shift as its members increasingly focus their talents on technology that meets basic needs in underserved communities, Kartik Kulkarni says. Kartik has chaired IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology’s Steering Committee for the past four years with this transformation as a backdrop. He steps…
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