IEEE EnLightening

Co-organized with Boston IEEE Blockchain Meetup, IEEE SSCS, IEEE Sensors Council, and IEEE EDS Chapters

Come and be enlightened and inspired by IEEE Enlightening! Inspirational talks with a touch of lightening. These short talks will leave you inspired presenting a diversity of ideas in technology and will leave you ready to take action to the future.

Free for IEEE Members!
Free appetizers and one drink coupon (beer, wine, soda,juice) per person!
$10 at the door for non members!

Jeewika Ranaweera
"Sri Lanka to Silicon Valley: My Personal Journey"

Jeewika is a principal hardware engineer at Oracle. She received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from ISPJAE in Havana, Cuba; and her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the Oracle Corporation Advanced Technology team that develops high-speed microprocessors.

Jason Parks
"Rhythm of the Universe and Immersive Media"
As CEO, Jason Parks continually develops, manages, and delegates the operational needs of ROTU E&M, Ltd. In conjunction with the Chief Creative Officer, Parks produces the products and services of ROTU. Jason is also a board member at Boston VR.

Prof. Thanuka Wickramarathne
"Autonomous Vehicles with SAFENETs"

Dr. Wickramarathne is the director of the S&H Fusion Research Group at UMAS Lowell. The research focuses on multi-sensor data fusion (MSDF) or data fusion — a broad interdisciplinary field that can be (loosely) defined as "... a multi-level, multi-faceted process dealing with the automatic detection, association, correlation, estimation, and combination of data and information from multiple sources."