The IEEE student branch board at TU Delft consists of four members who are responsible for day to day workings of the student branch. The members are guided by the Faculty Advisor, prof.dr. Fernando A. Kuipers
FACULTY ADVISOR – Fernando A. KUIPERS
Fernando A. Kuipers is an associate professor working on Internet Science at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). In 2004, he obtained his Ph.D. degree cum laude, the highest possible distinction at TU Delft. His research focus is on network optimization, network resilience, Quality of Service, and Quality of Experience and addresses problems in software-defined networking, optical networking, content distribution, and cyber-physical systems/infrastructures. His work on these subjects include distinguished papers at IEEE INFOCOM 2003, Chinacom 2006, IFIP Networking 2008, IEEE FMN 2008, IEEE ISM 2008, ITC 2009, IEEE JISIC 2014, NetGames 2015, and EuroGP 2017.
Fernando Kuipers is senior member of the IEEE, was a visiting scholar at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (in 2009) and Columbia University in the City of New York (in 2016), and is board member of the IEEE Benelux chapter on communications and vehicular technology, the Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers (KIVI), section Telecommunication, and the program advisory board of SURFnet on connecting infrastructures.
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS
CHAIR – Belma TURKOVIC
Belma received her Master degree at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, in September 2015. Currently, she is a PhD Student at the Embedded Software Group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS), TU Delft. Her research focuses are Software Defined networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and the Tactile Internet.
VICE-CHAIR – Rishabh BHANDIA
Rishabh Bhandia (r.bhandia@tudelft.nl) is a doctoral researcher in the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids group in Delft University of Technology. He received his B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from Sikkim Manipal University, India in 2011 and his M.S degree from Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France in 2015 in Smart Grids and Buildings. He has worked at Schneider Electric in Grenoble, France for his master thesis. His research interests are in the application of advanced algorithm for the anticipation and mitigation of faults in the power system. His other interest relate to co-simulation of complex power systems. He is currently involved in ‘ERIGrid’, a H2020 European Union project. He is a student member of IEEE.
TREASURER – Mladen GAGIC
Mladen Gagić received his bachelors (2014) and masters (2015) degree in electrical power engineering from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Electrical Sustainable Energy (ESE) at the Delft University of Technology (TUD). His research topic is in the field of multifrequency power systems, with a strong focus on power electronics, system design and control. Mladen is currently the president of IEEE joint PEL and IAS student branch chapter at TUD.
SECRETARY – Wouter KAYSER
Wouter is the secretary of the IEEE SB Delft. He is also the treasurer of the Electrotechnische Vereeniging (ETV). ETV is the study association for all students of electrical engineering, embedded systems and computer engineering in the Netherlands. ETV have been working on improving education, teaching soft skills and building a bridge between students and companies since its inception in the year of 1906. Now with the new found enthusiasm of the current IEEE board, ETV will be working together to organize great activities for all students.
PREVIOUS CHAIR– Swasti R. KHUNTIA
Swasti R. Khuntia was the previous Chair of the IEEE student branch at TU Delft. He is currenlty a PhD researcher in the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids (IEPG) research group of Dept. Electrical Sustainable Energy at Delft University of Technology. His PhD research is supervised by Dr. -Ing. José L. Rueda and Prof. Mart A. M. M van der Meijden. Prior to his PhD, Swasti obtained his Masters of Science degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in Electrical Engineering and his undergraduate degree from National Institute of Science and Technology, India in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is a DAAD scholarship awardee, and actively involved in IEEE and CIGRE.