Organization Committee

Organizing Committee

Honorary Advisory Committee:
Fumio Harashima	University of Tokyo
T.J. Tarn	Washington University
Toshio Fukuda	Nagoya University
Ren C. Lou	National Chung Cheng Univ.
Masayoshi Tomizuka	University of California, Berkeley
Okyay Kaynak	Bogazici University

Advisory Committee:
Hideki Hashimoto	University of Tokyo
Kok-Meng Lee	Georgia Institute of Tech.
Bruno Siciliano	University of Naples
Shigeki Sugano	Waseda University
Ning Xi	Michigan State University
Roland Siegwart	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

General Chair:
Ning Xi	Michigan State University xin@egr.msu.edu

General Co-Chairs:
Xiaoping Yun	Naval Post Graduate School yun@ieee.org
Roland Siegwart	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology roland.siegwart@epfl.ch

Program Chair:
Kok-Meng Lee	Georgia Institute of Tech. kokmeng.lee@me.gatech.edu

Program Co-Chairs:
Ranjan Mukherjee	Michigan State University mukherji@egr.msu.edu
Stefano Chiaverini	University of Cassino chiaverini@unicas.it
Koichi Osuka	Kobe University osuka@mech.kobe-u.ac.jp
Wen J. Li	Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong wen@acae.cuhk.edu.hk

Tutorial/Workshop Chair:
George Chiu	Purdue University gchiu@purdue.edu

Tutorial/Workshop Co-Chairs:
Claudio Melchiorri	University of Bologna cmelchiorri@deis.unibo.it
Tetsuo Kotoku	Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan t.kotoku@aist.go.jp
Gursel Alici	University of Wollongong Gursel.alici@eng.monash.edu.au

Invited Session Chair:
Bin Yao	Purdue University byao@ecn.purdue.edu

Invited Session Co-Chairs:
Jadran Lenarcic	Jozef Stefan Institute jadran.lenarcic@ijs.si
Taizoh Sakaki	Ricoh Co.Ltd. taizoh.sakaki@nts.ricoh.co.jp
Dong-soo Kwon	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology kwonds@kaist.ac.kr
Metin Sitti	Carnegie Mellon University sitti@cmu.edu

Industrial Oriented Mechatronics Track Chair
Lonnie J. Love	Oak Ridge National Laboratory lovelj@ornl.gov

Publicity Chair:
Jindong Tan	Michigan Tech.Univ. jitan@mtu.edu

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Stefano Stramigioli	University of Twente S.Stramigioli@el.utwente.nl
Hiroki Murakami	IHI Co.Ltd hiroki_murakami@ihi.co.jp
Ju-Jang Lee	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology jjlee@ee.kaist.ac.kr

Industrial Tour Chair:
Winncy Du	San Jose State University wdu@email.sjsu.edu

Industrial Tour Co-chairs:
Mingjun Zhang	Agilent Technologies michael_zhang@agilent.com

Exhibition Chair:
Yoshio Yamamoto	Tokai Univ. YoshioYam@aol.com

Exhibition Co-Chairs:
Jizhong Xiao	City University of New York jxiao@ccny.cuny.edu
Finance Chair:
Weihua Sheng	Kettering University wsheng@kettering.edu

Publication Chair:
I-Ming Chen	Nanyang Tech. Univ. michen@ntu.edu.sg

Publication Co-Chairs:
Philip Chen	University of Taxes pchen@utsa.edu

Registration Chair:
Imad Elhajj	Oakland University elhajj@oakland.edu

Local Arrangement Chair:
Wei Kang	Naval Post Graduate School wkang@nps.navy.mil

Local Arrangement Co-Chair:
Christopher Kitts	Santa Clara University ckitts@me.scu.edu

Organizing Committee

Program Committee