Q: How do you think IEEE benefits your profession? 

A: As an engineering professional society, IEEE has offered a tremendous platform to team with like-minded colleagues to disseminate the state-of-the-art in education, research and deployments in robotics and automation. IEEE’s vast network and global reach has served to amplify our individual ideas and innovations in the service of our professional discipline. But most importantly, IEEE has connected me with a community of outstandingly brilliant, empathetic, engaged and dedicated colleagues in a way that has remained unparalleled.