Conference Leadership
Organizing Committee
Meet the committee leading the 2026 IEEE Smart City USA Conference.
- Honorary Chair
- Prof. Georges Zissis IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community Chair
- General Chairs
- Ran Tao IEEE Smart Cities Ambassador, Region 5 Shubham Gupta IEEE Smart Cities Ambassador & IEEE Senior Member, Region 5
- TPC Chairs
- Abhishek Rajshekar AGC / ABC / CMAA / DBIA / AACE Member Colorado, Rocky Mountain, Central Texas & South Central Chapters Construction Technology, Project Controls & Smart Infrastructure Outreach Kavya Gaddipati Senior Design Engineer, NVIDIA IEEE Senior Member | Sigma Xi Senior Member VLSI, AI Hardware & Smart City Edge Technologies
- Conference Treasurer / Publicity Chair
- Jothsna Praveena Pendyala Senior Data Scientist, Chair, ACM Dallas | IEEE Senior Member