Upcoming Meetings & Events
Section Leadership
Contact details & affinity groupsSection Officers
Dr. Sasidhar Tadanki, Chair
Mr. Sumanth Tatineni, Vice-Chair
Mr. Kishore Kandepu, Treasurer
Mr. Narendra Venkatesan, Secretary
Standing Committees
Membership Development Vice-Chair – Mr. Vishnu Challagulla
Communications Chair – Mr. Alvaro Garcia Caceres
Student Activities Chair – Biswaranjan Senapati
Student Activities Representative – Mr. Sandeep Kumar Davulur
Industry Engagement Chair – Dr. Brook Abegaz
Nominations and Appointments Chair – Mr. Ugur Cem Merdamert
Awards Chair – Mr. Mohammad Tasdighi,
Education Chair: Ms. Megan Czach
IT & Webmaster: Mr. Peter Salerno
Affinity Groups
Chicago/Rockford Consultants’ Network: Rob Klein
Life Member Chair: Mr. Larry Kotewa
Women in Engineering: Dr. Farnaz Abdollahi
Young Professionals Chair – Mr. Shib Shankar Golder
PACE Chair – Mr. Amit Maheshwari
Postal Address
Local Societies
Links to local technical societiesLocal Society Chapters
Antennas & Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques (APS/MTT)
Computer (CS)
Communications (COM)
Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC)
Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB)
Industry Applications / Industrial Elecronics (IAS/IES)
Magnetics (MAG)
Nanotechnology Council
Power and Energy (PE)
Product Safety Engineering (PSES)
Professional Communications (PCS)
Robotics and Automation (RAS)
Sensors
Signal Processing (SP)
Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)
Technology and Engineering Management (TEMS)
Vehicular Technology (VTS)
Sub-Sections
Recent News
Chicago Section’s 131st Anniversary
Join us as we celebrate the 131st Anniversary of IEEE Chicago section - Honoring the past, Pioneering the future. This full-day event will feature a powerful lineup of speakers from IEEE leadership, and leading industry and academia [...]
Nomination Open for 2025 IEEE Chicago Early Career Awards in Magnetics and Nanotechnology
Deadline: September 26, 2025 We invite nominations for 2025 IEEE Chicago Early Career Awards in Magnetics and Nanotechnology as our fourth annual award call since 2021. The awards aim to promote junior researchers area in their early [...]
IEEE Chicago Section Highlights Groundbreaking Research on Securing Cloud AI Workloads
Securing Generative AI Models: Best Paper Award at ICAIC 2025 The IEEE Chicago Section is proud to spotlight an outstanding achievement by our very own Conference Chair, Advait Patel. At the 4th IEEE International Conference on AI [...]