Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub executive director Florence Hudson has been elevated to IEEE senior member.
IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. For admission or transfer to the grade of senior member, candidates must be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields for a decade and demonstrate five years of significant performance.
In addition to her role with the Hub, Hudson is founder and CEO of FDHint, LLC, a global advanced technology and diversity and inclusion consulting firm. She is a former IBM vice president and chief technology officer, Internet2 senior vice president and chief innovation officer, special advisor for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and aerospace engineer at Grumman and NASA. She chairs the global IEEE/UL P2933 working group on clinical IoT data and device interoperability with TIPPSS—trust, identity, privacy, protection, safety, and security—and serves on boards for Princeton University, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Stony Brook University, Blockchain in Healthcare Today, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Hudson has a B.S.E. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and completed executive business education at Harvard and Columbia universities.