Overview
Region 6 is one of 10 geographic regions of the IEEE. Region 6 covers the Western U.S. – from Alaska to New Mexico and Montana to Hawaii. The Region has 35 Sections and 2 sub-Sections, organized in to 5 Areas: Northeast, Northwest, Central, Southern and Southwest.
Finding Your Section
IEEE Region 6 is home to organizational units in Western US. Learn more about how to get involved. Learn about IEEE geographic units in your area by viewing this list. There may also be a technology-specific chapter or special interest group in your section. These are found in the Chapters & Affinity Groups table.
Section Officers
| Area / Section | Chair Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Central (CE) Area | Mostafa Mortezaie | mortezaie@ieee.org | |
| Hawaii Section | Justin Erece | justin.erece@ieee.org | |
| Northern Nevada Section | Michael Chavez | michael.chavez@ieee.org | |
| Oakland-East Bay Section | David Chamber | nutmeg@iname.com | |
| Sacramento Valley Section | Praveen Meduri | praveen.meduri@csus.edu | |
| San Francisco Section | Vishakha Sharma | vishakha.sharma@ieee.org | |
| Santa Clara Valley Section | Avery Lu | avery.j.lu@ieee.org | |
| San Francisco Bay Area Council (Oakland East Bay, San Francisco, Santa Clara Valley) | Vishakha Sharma | vishakha.sharma@ieee.org | |
| Northeast (NE) Area | Sean Collison | scollison@ieee.org | |
| Boise Section | Nidish Vashistha | nidish@ieee.org | |
| Central Montana Section (Bozeman) | Bradley Whitaker* | bradley.whitaker1@montana.edu | |
| Eastern Idaho Section | Scott Heller | rellehtocs@gmail.com | |
| Eastern Montana Section | Jordan McNaught | jordanmcnaught@gmail.com | |
| Utah Section | Dan Christianson | chrisdan@xmission.com | |
| Western Montana Section (Butte) | Brandon Hunt | bhunt@mtech.edu | |
| Northwest (NW) Area | Sanjay Samuel | sanjaysamuel@ieee.org | |
| Alaska Section | Jeremy Smith | fsjds3@gmail.com | |
| Central Washington Section | Max Hernandez-Brito | caitlinchb@ieee.org | |
| Oregon Section | David Silver | silverdave01@gmail.com | |
| Palouse Section | Pavan Penkey | pavan_penkey@ieee.org | |
| Richland Section | Muthu Elen | muthu.elen@ieee.org | |
| Seattle Section | Sheree Wen | swen@ieee.org | |
| Spokane Section | Caitlin Hernandez-Brito | caitlinchb@ieee.org | |
| Southern (SO) Area | Scott Tamashiro | Tamashiro@ieee.org | |
| Buenaventura Section | Momin Quddus | mominq7@yahoo.com | |
| Central Coast Section | Ruth E Franklin | rfranklin.ieee@gmail.com | |
| China Lake-Bakersfield Section | Open | ||
| Coastal Los Angeles Section | Shantaram Vasikarla | vshantaram@hotmail.com | |
| Foothill Section | Max Cherubin | m.c.us@ieee.org | |
| Metropolitan Los Angeles Section | Tom Walker | tom.walker@ieee.org | |
| Orange County Section | Ahmed Saber | aysaber@ieee.org | |
| San Fernando Valley Section | Albert Lin | aylin@ieee.org | |
| Southern California Council | Gora Datta | goradatta@ieee.org | |
| Southwest (SW) Area | Zhensheng Zhang | zzhang@ieee.org | |
| Alamagordo-Holloman | Open | ||
| Albuquerque Section | Lee Gill | lgill@sandia.gov | |
| Ft. Huachuca Section | John DeLalla | info@delalla.com | |
| LANNM Section | John Greenhall | jgreenhall@lanl.gov | |
| Las Vegas Section | Sarge Benson | sgtnbenson@ieee.org | |
| Phoenix Section | Thierry Godart | tgodart@ieee.org | |
| San Diego Section | Upal Mahbub | upalmahbub@yahoo.com | |
| Tucson Section | Joseph Wu | joewu@ieee.org | |
| Updated: 08 April 2026 |
