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Moderator:<br />
2012 GHTC Page 70<br />
Soon Wan, Vicor Corporation<br />
(gimsoon@ieee.org)<br />
Soon Wan is a Senior Design Engineer in <strong>the</strong> Research and<br />
Development Engineering group at VICOR Corporation<br />
(Andover, MA). He designs and develops high power<br />
density DC/DC power converter with innovative<br />
technologies and patented topologies.<br />
Soon has been an active <strong>IEEE</strong> volunteer for <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Humanitarian</strong> Activities. He<br />
was <strong>the</strong> 2007 and 2008 Chair of <strong>IEEE</strong> Graduates Of <strong>the</strong> Last Decade (GOLD)<br />
Committee - with approximately 50,000 young professional GOLD members<br />
worldwide. In order to create awareness among engineering students and young<br />
professionals on how <strong>the</strong>y could use <strong>the</strong>ir skills and knowledge to aid<br />
humanitarian works, Soon successfully organized <strong>the</strong> inaugural GOLD<br />
<strong>Humanitarian</strong> Workshop in Boston in 2008. In addition, Soon initiated <strong>the</strong><br />
GOLD <strong>Humanitarian</strong> Fellowship <strong>Program</strong> in 2009. In 2010, Soon was a member<br />
of <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Humanitarian</strong> AdHoc Committee, and a co-responding member to<br />
<strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Humanitarian</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> Challenge, and with <strong>the</strong> Reliable Electricity<br />
Solution Workgroup. Since 2008, Soon is a co-responding member to <strong>IEEE</strong><br />
Committee on Earth Observation (ICEO), and was working on <strong>the</strong> <strong>IEEE</strong> “Water<br />
for <strong>the</strong> World” initiative. Soon was <strong>the</strong> Publicity Chair of 2011 and 2012 <strong>IEEE</strong><br />
<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Humanitarian</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> Conference.<br />
Panel Speaker:<br />
Miho Kitagawa, MIT<br />
(mkitagaw@MIT.EDU)<br />
Miho Kitagawa was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. She<br />
is currently a 3 rd -year undergraduate student at MIT,<br />
majoring in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical<br />
Engineering track. She is passionate about engineering for<br />
international development and co-creation with<br />
communities, and has worked on design engineering<br />
projects with communities in Honduras and Brazil through MIT D-lab. She was<br />
a participant in IDDS 2012 in Brazil, and is currently leading <strong>the</strong> recycling<br />
project, which started during IDDS, with a new team based in MIT. She is<br />
planning to hold a capacity-building workshop this summer in Japan, trying to<br />
spread <strong>the</strong> philosophies of IDDS to her home country.
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