COMMITTEES
General Chair
Y. Narahari
Indian Institute of Science, India
hari@csa.iisc.ernet.in
General Co-Chair
Vijay Kumar
University of Pennsylvania, USA
kumar@seas.upenn.edu
Program Chair
Spyros Reveliotis
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
spyros@isye.gatech.edu
Program Track Chairs
Maria Pia Fanti(Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Foundations of Automation
P. S. Sastry (Indian Institute of Science,
India)
Knowledge Sciences and Automation
Gaurav Sukhatme (University of Southern
California, USA)
Sensors and Sensor
Networks
Dawn Tilbury (University of Michigan, USA)
Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain
Management Systems)
Xiaolan Xie (Ecole Natl. Superieure des
Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
Life Sciences and Health Care
Mingjun Zhang (University of Tennesse,
USA)
Meso, Micro and Nano-Scale
Automation
Awards Chair
Vijay Kumar
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Special Sessions Chair
Jingshan Li (University of Kentucky, USA)
Tutorial Chair
Jianjun Shi (Georgia Inst. of Tech. USA)
Poster Chair
Yu Sun (University of Toronto, Canada)
Publication Chair
Yanqing Gao (University of Arizona, USA)
Finance Chair
Debasis Ghose (Indian Inst. of Sc., India)
Finance Co-Chair
Shivakumar Sastry (University of Akron, USA)
Registration Chair
Parthasarathy Ramachandran (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Registration Co-Chair
Dinesh Garg (Yahoo!Labs, Bangalore, India)
Awards Committee
Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania, USA) (Chair)
Bruno Siciliano (Universita` degli Studi di Napoli, Italy)
Gaurav Sukhatme (University of Southern California, USA)
Xiaolan Xie (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
Local Arrangements Committee
T.S. Chandrashekar (GM India Scince Lab, Bangalore)
Debabrata Das (IIITB. Bangalore)
Dinesh Garg (Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore)
Debasish Ghose (IISc, Bangalore)
S. Kameshwaran (ISB, Hyderabad)
Ramakrishnan Kannan (IBM, Bangalore)
Vishnu Makkapati (Philips, Bangalore)
Parthasarathy Ramachandran (IISc, Bangalore)
K. Ramakrishna (IEEE, Bangalore Chapter)
S.V. Sankaran (SAPLABS, Bangalore)
T. Shankar (Indian Institute of Science, India)
S.V. Subrahmanya (Infosys Technologies, Bangalore)
Steering Committee
Peter Luh (Univ. of Conn. USA)
Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley, USA)
Deirdre Meldrum (Arizona State Univ., USA)
Kazuhiro Saitu (Univ. of Michigan, USA)
N. Viswanadham (India Sch. of Bus., India)
Michael Y. Wang (CUHK, Hong Kong)
Mike Tao Zhang (Spansion, USA)
MengChu Zhou (NJIT, USA)



















