IEEE Toronto Section - Executive Committee

IEEE Toronto Section Executive Committee Biographies
The operation of the IEEE Toronto Section is managed by the Section Executive committee, whose members are elected or appointed every two years. On each of these pages, we introduce a member of the committee who volunteers his or her time and energy to deliver the services that the IEEE Toronto Section provides. On your behalf, we recognize their invaluable contributions.

Raymond Phan - IEEE Toronto Section Webmaster, IEEE Toronto Section Membership Development Secretary, and IEEE GOLD Toronto Section Affinity Group Vice-Chair and VP Membership Development

Raymond (Ray) Phan is currently a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, where he is currently a Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar. He also received his Bachelor's of Engineering (B.Eng.) with honours standing in 2006 and his Masters of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) in 2008 from the same department. His research interests are in multimedia content access, storage and retrieval, image segmentation, object recognition, computer vision, stereo vision and 3DTV. In 2004, Ray received the Wallas Khella Scholarship for Academic Excellence, and in 2005, he received a certificate for outstanding leadership for his work with the IEEE Student Branch, both from the IEEE Toronto Section. In 2008, Ray received the Ryerson Gold Medal - the highest accolade a Ryerson student can achieve at the university. The award signifies superior academic performance, exceptional volunteering contributions to the community, the profession, and excellent leadership skills. Aside from academics, Ray is an active member of the Ryerson community, and also is active with the IEEE. He is currently an awards committee member for the Ryerson Learning and Teaching Office (LTO) Teaching Excellence Awards, an appeals committee member for the School of Graduate Studies (SGS), and is the President for the Electrical & Computer Engineering: Graduate Student Association (ELCE-GSA). For IEEE involvement, he served as the 3rd year student representative in 2004 - 2005, the Branch Chair in 2005 - 2006, and is currently the Branch Coordinator for the IEEE Student Branch at Ryerson. Finally, he was the webmaster for IEEE Canada - Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2008, the current webmaster for CCECE 2011, the secretary for the IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Toronto Section, the secretary for membership development with the IEEE Toronto Section, and is currently the webmaster for the IEEE Toronto Section (since October 2008).

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