The IGTI Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is looking for student liaisons to interact directly with the IGTI technical committees. SAC liaisons are expected to serve as a link between the SAC and the technical committee they are assigned to and are expected to communicate directly with its leadership. This role will give students a chance to collaborate with technical experts, share ideas, and explore opportunities for networking and professional development.
Expectations
SAC Liaisons are expected to have the following responsibilities. Additional tasks can be delegated, based on the specific committees' needs. Final assignment of tasks to the SAC liaisons lies with the specific technical committee that the liaisons are assigned to.
RESPONSIBILITY - TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
- Session co-chair. A student liaison can act as a session co-chair (if needed), and be tasked with presenting the speaker and asking some technical questions.
- Non-voting member. The liaison is involved in the committee dialogues throughout the year, thus getting an idea of how responsibilities are delegated, and Turbo Expo processes are conducted. The liaison can interact during the committee meetings as no voting member and can also be asked to monitor certain activities to assist the committee.
- Support in the organization of tutorial sessions. Liaisons can assist the committee members and track chairs to organize the tutorial sessions for the current Turbo Expo edition and defining the future ones with the respective committees.
- Note keeping. A student liaison can help with the organization of committee meetings, taking notes and drafting slides.
- Reviewer. Liaisons can act as a reviewer if needed by their committee (for instance if there is a lack of available reviewers), provided that all the students that have applied for the Student Review Initiative have been assigned to a paper.
RESPONSIBILITY - STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Involvement during Early Career and Student Mixer. Student liaisons are encouraged to attend the Early Career and Student Mixer event (usually held on the Sunday before the beginning of the conference), in order to support the SAC leadership and the technical committees. In particular, liaisons can answer questions about their committee and/or provide information on some specific technical sessions and tutorials. Moreover, they are encouraged to network with students throughout the event.
- Participation in the SAC annual meeting and technical committee meetings. Liaisons can share their own experience during the SAC annual meeting, and they can be asked to briefly present some information about it. Liaisons might be required to present the SAC activities in the technical committee meetings, if requested.
- Participation in midterm meetings before the conference. Liaisons are encouraged to meet the SAC executive before the conference via online meetings (date and time to be determined).
Requirements
Applicants for these positions must be degree seeking students.
The liaison should be in attendance at the Turbo Expo 2025. Being awarded a technical committee liaison position does not include funding for the conference. If funding is necessary for conference attendance, please consider applying for the Student Advisory Committee Travel Award.
Communication with the SAC leadership team may be requested prior to, during, and following Turbo Expo. The service period will extend from November 29, 2024 to June 20, 2025. Additional expectations may be outlined by the SAC leadership team, but not without input from the liaison.
A Special Thanks to the 2024 SAC Liaisons:
Edwin Joseph Munoz Lopez, Technical University of Munich
Jorge Perez Barcena, Ecole Centrale Lyon
Lakshminarayanan Seshadri, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
Ishita Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Ritesh Ghorpade, University of Central Florida
Troy Krizak, The Ohio State University
Salvatore Carusotto, Politecnico di Torino
Dahae Jeong, Pennsylvania State University
Panagiotis Gallis, Politecnico di Torino
Stefan Fritz, TU Berlin
Janakiraman Thiyagarajan, Lund University
Taha Sherif, Menoufia University
Teodosio Nacci, Politecnico di Torino
Noraiz Mushtaq, Politecnico di Milano
Hara Prakash Mishra, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
Shahzad Bobi, University of Central Florida
Alexandre Halby, University of Liège
Lorenzo Da Valle, University of Liège
Priyankar Garai, University of Central Florida
Marzuqa Ahmed, University of Central Florida
Christopher Loving, University of Central Florida
Austin Hendrickson, The Ohio State University
Safdari Ahmed, University of Central Florida
Rafael González-Almenara, University of Seville
Peter Cassidy, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Aspasia Anastasiou, Univeristy of Cambridge
Simone Parisi, Technical University of Denmark