Global Communications Newsletter

This article continues the series of nine interviews to the Officers of the IEEE ComSoc Member and Global Activities (MGA) Council, which is published every month on the Global Communications Newsletter. In this series of articles, I introduce the Vice-President and the six Directors on the MGA Council (namely: Member Services, Industry Outreach, and AP, NA, LA, EMEA Regions), as well as the two Chairs of the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) and Young Professionals (YP) Standing Committees. In each interview, one by one they present their sector activities and plans. In this issue, I interview Ana Garcia Armada, Vice President for Member and Global Activities. This is the second time I interview Ana. I have interviewed her also in 2019, when she was serving as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Standing Committee on Women in Communications Engineering (WICE). Ana received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in February 1998. She is currently Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, where she is leading the Communications Research Group. She has been visiting scholar at Stanford University, Bell Labs and University of Southampton. She has coordinated more than 40 national and international research projects as well as 20 contracts with the industry. She has published around 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and she holds four patents. She has served on the TPC of more than 40 conferences and she has been part of the organizing committee of IEEE Globecom 2019, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring 2019, Fall 2018, and Spring 2018, among others. Most recently, she has been General Co-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2021, Madrid, Spain.