Dear Region 10 Members,
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the October issue of IEEE Region 10 Newsletter, which is already our fourth and final edition for 2020. We are glad to receive continuous support from the various organizational units across Region 10 for our newsletter, with a lot of submissions received for each and every one of our newsletter issue. And this issue is no different; despite still being clouded with the COVID19 pandemic, which no doubt affecting most units in carrying out their activities, we received close to 50 article submissions for inclusion in this newsletter edition. We would like to again thank all these volunteers for their contributions to this newsletter.
This edition features a special report on the winners of the recently announced IEEE Region 10 Awards. Both the individual and OU/group awards winners are featured in the report, two of which also features in our Personality and Organizational Unit of the Month column. Congratulations again to all the winners for their well deserving awards. The newsletter continues with another four Personalities of the Month and four Organizational Units of the Month in this edition. This issue also continues to feature another one of our COVID-19 heroes in the COVID-19 Personality of the Month column, introduced for the first time in the July issue following the advice from Region 10 Director, Akinori Nishihara, to highlight our members and units who contributed in countering the COVID-19 threat. This time, the honor goes to the IEEE Indonesia Section for their effort in distributing Automatic Handwash Portable Machine in Makassar, South Sulawesi.
Besides, this October newsletter issue also bring a new technical column featuring articles by the winners of the 2020 IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Research Paper Contest, updates from various IEEE Region 10 committees, reports on events organized by Region 10 (Conference Leadership Program, R10 Director’s Dialogue etc.), as well as other major events across the region (GUCON2020, ICC2020, VCOP2020 etc.). As usual, I would like to offer my very special thanks to all my R10 newsletter committee members below for their incredible team efforts, without which the October newsletter issue will never materialized. Finally thanks again all of you for your support, I hope you enjoy reading it. Stay safe.
Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi
Chair, IEEE R10 Newsletter Committee