Young Professional Symposium

PPPS2025 will host a symposium for Young Professionals at the conference hotel on Wednesday, 18 June 2025, from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. The symposium is organized by Dr. Andrea Schmidt from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. The symposium will feature a presentation on “How to Publish Successfully” by Professor Edl Schamiloglu, the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. Refreshments will be served.

Professor Schamiloglu was born in The Bronx, NY, USA. He received the B.S. degree in applied physics and the M.S. degree in plasma physics from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering (minor in mathematics) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 1988. He joined The University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, NM, USA, as an Assistant Professor, in 1988, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Special Assistant to the Provost for Laboratory Relations. He coedited three books and coauthored a fourth.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the American Physical Society, and he is an EMP Fellow (sponsored by the Summa Foundation). He received numerous awards, most recently the 2019 (inaugural) IEEE NPSS Magne “Kris” Kristiansen Award “for outstanding contributions in experimental nuclear and plasma science.”

About IEEE Young Professionals

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IEEE Young Professionals is the group of IEEE members and volunteers who have graduated from their first professional degree within the past 15 years. It is an international community, whose members are interested in elevating their professional image, expanding their global network, connecting with peers locally and giving back to their community. Since it encompasses all members from recent university graduates to experienced professionals and entrepreneurs, the group is highly diverse in what it has to offer.