Diversity & Inclusion Task Force

A committee dedicated to promote and initiate activities at the Computer Society that support diversity and inclusion.

Task Force Description

The IEEE Computer Society Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Task Force is a committee appointed by 2020 Computer Society President, Leila De Floriani, to promote and initiate activities at the Computer Society that support diversity and inclusion. These activities include interviews with prominent women in STEM, dissemination of D&I best practices for conferences and publications, support of Returning Mothers events in India, and the creation of a permanent CS Standing Committee on Diversity & Inclusion.

D&I Task Force

Chair, Leila De Floriani

University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Cecilia Metra

University of Bologna, Italy

Grace Lewis

Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Ramalatha Marimuthu

Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

Melissa Russell

IEEE Computer Society

Anne Marie Kelly

IEEE Computer Society

Brookes Little

IEEE Computer Society

D&I Advisory Panel

Saurabh Bagchi

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Eric Berkowitz

IEEE Computer Society

Liz Burd

University of Newcastle, Australia

Debzani Deb

Winston-Salem State University, NC, USA

Jill Gostin

Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA

Bill Gropp

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

Dave Kaeli

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Ming Lin

University of Maryland, College Park, USA