IROS 2009 Organizing Committee

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Contents 1 Advisory Council Founding Honorary Chair: 2 Past Advisory Council Honorary Chair: 3 Advisory Council Honorary Chair: 4 Advisory Council Chair: 5 Advisory Council Vice Chair: 6 General Chair: 7 General Co-Chair: 8 Program Chair: 9 Program Co-Chair: 10 Regional Program Chairs: 11 Local Arrangement Chairs: 12 Organizing Committee Chairs: 13 Financial Chair: 14 Award Committee Chair: 15 Award Committee Co-Chairs: 16 Registration Chairs: 17 Publicity Chairs: 18 Tutorials/Workshops Chairs: 19 Poster Sessions Chairs: 20 Organized/Special Sessions Chairs: 21 Publication Chairs: 22 Video Publication Chairs: 23 Exhibition Chairs: 24 Industrial/Governmental Activities Chairs:

Advisory Council Founding Honorary Chair:

Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan,

f.harashima@cck.dendai.ac.jp

Past Advisory Council Honorary Chair:

Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Washington University, USA,

tarn@ese.wustl.edu

Advisory Council Honorary Chair:

George Lee, Purdue University, USA,

csglee@ecn.purdue.edu

Advisory Council Chair:

Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan,

fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Advisory Council Vice Chair:

Shin'ichi Yuta, University of Tsukuba, Japan,

yuta@roboken.esys.tsukuba.ac.jp

General Chair:

Ning Xi, Michigan State University, USA,

xin@egr.msu.edu

General Co-Chair:

Xiaoping Yun, Naval Postgraduate School, USA,

yun@nps.edu

Program Chair:

William R. Hamel, University of Tennessee, USA,

whamel@utk.edu

Program Co-Chair:

Jindong Tan, Michigan Technological University, USA,

jitan@mtu.edu

Regional Program Chairs:

Nikos Papanikolopoulos (Americas) University of Minnesota, USA,

npapas@cs.umn.edu

Shigeki Sugano, (Japan), Waseda University, Japan,

sugano@waseda.jp

Stefano Chiaverini, (Europe) University of Cassino, Italy,

chiaverini@unicas.it

Max Meng, (Asia), Chinese University of Hong Kong, China,

qhmeng@ee.cuhk.edu.hk

Local Arrangement Chairs:

Bill Smart, Washington University, USA,

wds@cse.wustl.edu

Alpay Ozcan, Washington University, USA,

ozcan@zach.wustl.edu,

Organizing Committee Chairs:

King Lai, Michigan State University, USA,

kinglai@egr.msu.edu

Mingjun Zhang, University of Tennessee, USA,

mjzhang@utk.edu

Financial Chair:

Weihua Sheng, Oklahoma State University, USA,

weihua.sheng@okstate.edu

Award Committee Chair:

Hong Zhang, University of Alberta, Canada,

zhang@cs.ualberta.ca

Award Committee Co-Chairs:

Thomas C. Henderson,
University of Utah, USA,

tch@cs.utah.edu

Hajime Asama, University of Tokyo, Japan,

asama@race.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Raja Chatila
LAAS-CNRS, France,

Raja.Chatila@laas.fr

Wen J. Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China,

wen@mae.cuhk.edu.hk

Registration Chairs:

Guangyong Li, University of Pittsburg, USA,

gli@engr.pitt.edu

Carmen Fung, Michigan State University, USA,

carmen@egr.msu.edu

Publicity Chairs:

Yunhui Liu, Chinese Univ. of HK, China,

yhliu@acae.cuhk.edu.hk

Kazuhito Yokoi, AIST, Japan,

Kazuhito.Yokoi@aist.go.jp

Alois Knoll, Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany,

knoll@in.tum.de

Uche Wejinya, University of Arkansas, USA,

uwejinya@uark.edu

Frank Park, National Seoul University, Korea,

fcp@snu.ac.kr

Lianqing Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China,

lqliu@sia.cn

Li-Chen Fu, National Taiwan U., Taiwan,

lichen@ntu.edu.tw

Tutorials/Workshops Chairs:

Jing Xiao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA,

xiao@uncc.edu

Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University, Japan,

tadokoro@rm.is.tohoku.ac.jp

Poster Sessions Chairs:

Xiaobo Tan, Michigan State University, USA,

xbtan@egr.msu.edu

Manukid Parnichkun, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand,

manukid@ait.ac.th

Aiguo Ming, University of Electro-Communications, Japan,

ming@mce.uec.ac.jp

Organized/Special Sessions Chairs:

Ren C Luo, National Taiwan University,

renluo@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw

Lynne Parker, University of Tennessee, USA,

leparker@utk.edu

Antoine Ferreira, University of Orleans, France,

antoine.ferreira@ensi-bourges.fr

Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tohoku University, Japan,

kosuge@irs.mech.tohoku.ac.jp

Dong-Soo Kwon, KAIST, Korea,

kwonds@kaist.ac.kr

Imad Elhajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon,

ie05@aub.edu.lb

Danwei Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,

edwwang@ntu.edu.sg

Heping Chen, ABB, USA,

heping.chen@us.abb.com

Qiang Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China,

qhuang@bit.edu.cn

Publication Chairs:

Zhidong Wang, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan,

zhidong.wang@it-chiba.ac.jp

Yantao Shen, University of Nevada, USA,

ytshen@unr.edu

Jianwei Zhang, Hamburg University, Germany,

zhang@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

Video Publication Chairs:

Takashi Tsubouchi, Tsukuba Uiversity, Japan,

tsubo@esys.tsukuba.ac.jp

Dongjun Lee, University of Tennessee, USA,

djlee@utk.edu

Exhibition Chairs:

Jizhong Xiao, City University of New York, USA,

jxiao@ccny.cuny.edu

Shugen Ma, Ritsumeikan University, Japan,

Shugen.Ma@ieee.org

Bradley Nelson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland,

bnelson@ethz.ch

Industrial/Governmental Activities Chairs:

Greg Hudas, Army TARDEC, USA,

greg.hudas@us.army.mil

Paul Oh, National Science Foundation, USA,

poh@nsf.gov

Takanori Shibata, AIST, Japan,

shibata@mel.go.jp

George Zhang, ABB, USA,

george.zhang@us.abb.com

Quan (Mike) Shi, PPG, USA,

qshi@ppg.com