Title Student to YP Transition - STEP Funding.pdf ✅

Slide 1 Student to YP Transition & STEP Funding Chamika Sudusinghe ([email protected]) Vice-Chair, IEEE Young Professionals 2023-2024 29th March 2024
Slide 2 2 Chamika Sudusinghe - Vice Chair, IEEE YP ● Vice-Chair, Products & Services, IEEE Young Professionals (2023-2024) ● Secretary, IEEE Sri Lanka Section (2023) ● Ph.D. Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA (2023 - Present) ● B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2022) ● Previously: Software Engineer at WSO2 LLC ● Volunteering with IEEE since 2017 ● Leadership positions in Student Branch, Chapters, Section, Region and Global https://chamika.net
Slide 3 3 Outline ● Who are Young Professionals? ● How to be a Young Professional after Graduation? ● Why become Young Professionals? ● Things We Do in the IEEE Young Professionals Committee ● Young Professionals Initiatives ▪ Climate and Sustainability Task Force ▪ Mentoring-Meet ▪ Volunteering Platform ● STEP Funding ● Opportunities & Resources ● Why Stay? ● How to Get Involved? ● Need to Know More?
Slide 4 4 Who are Young Professionals? ● IEEE Members who have graduated from their first degree within the past fifteen (15) years. ● Young Professionals (YP) membership is free of charge! (under special categories) ● Geographical presence via Affinity Groups, a non-technical sub-unit of a Region, Section, etc.