Program Chair

Spyros Reveliotis
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA


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 Committee 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)


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)



Program Committee


Foundations of Automation

  • Maria Pia Fanti, Politecnico di Bari, Italy (Chair)
  • Manjunath Kamath, Oklahoma State University, USA (Co-Chair)
  • Ratnesh Kumar, Iowa State University, USA, (Co-Chair)
  • Tae-Eog Lee, KAIST, Korea, (Co-Chair)
  • Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Francesco Basile, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
  • Yossi Bukchin, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • Javier Campos, University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Jose-Manuel Colom, University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Martin Fabian, Chalmers University, Sweden
  • Alessandro Giua, University of Cagliari, Italy
  • N. Hemachandra, IIT Bombay, India
  • Dimitris Hristu, University of Macedonia, Greece
  • Vassilis Kouikoglou, University of Crete, Greece
  • Kostas Kyriakopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • Lucia Pallottino, University of Pisa, Italy
  • Elzbieta Roszkowska, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Carla Seatzu, University of Cagliari, Italy
  • Weiming Shen, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
  • Bart De Schutter, Delft Unversity of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Shigemasa Takai, Kobe Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Walter Ukovich, University of Trieste, Italy
  • Janan Zaytoon, University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, France
  • Changyan Zhou, Magnatech, USA


Knowledge Sciences and Automation

  • P. S. Sastry, IISc, India (Chair)
  • S. S. Keerthi Yahoo! Research Labs, USA (Co-Chair)
  • N. R. S. Raghavan, GM R&D, India (Co-Chair)
  • Shantanu Biswas, Motorola, India
  • Satish Bukkapatnam, Oklahoma State University, USA
  • T. S. Chandrasekhar, GM R&D, India
  • Sandeep Dulluri, HSBC - Investment Solutions R&D, India
  • Dinesh Garg, Yahoo Research, India
  • Krishna Kummamuru, IBM Research, India
  • Srivatsan Laxman, Microsoft Research Labs, India
  • Subir Raha, Motorola, Bangalore
  • Parthasarathy Ramachandran, IISc, India
  • B. Ravindran, IIT Madras, India
  • Sivakumar Sastry, University of Akron, USA
  • S. K. Shevade, IISc, India
  • Natalia Sidorova, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
  • S.V. Subrahmanya, Infosys Technologies, India
  • M. Sudeep, Infosys Technoligies, India
  • P. Suresh, Infosys technologies, India
  • K. P. Unnikrishnan, Wayne State University, USA


Sensors and Sensor Networks

  • Gourav Sukhatme, University of Southern California, USA (Chair)
  • Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois – Chicago, USA (Co-Chair)
  • Yannis Paschalidis, Boston University, USA (Co-Chair)
  • Kurt Rohloff, BBN Technologies, USA (Co-Chair)
  • Debabrata Das, IIITB, India
  • Nagi Gebraeel, Georgia Tech, USA
  • Sahika Genc, General Electric Global Research, USA
  • Christoforos Hadjicostis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Volkan Isler, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University, USA
  • Klaus Schmidt, University of Erlangen, Germany
  • Anthony Tzes, University of Patras, Greece


Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management

  • Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan, USA, (Chair)
  • Der-Horng Lee, NUS, Singapore, (Co-Chair)
  • Bengt Lennartson, Chalmers University, Sweden (Co-Chair)
  • K. Ravikumar, GM R&D, India (Co-Chair)
  • Knut Akesson, Chalmers University, Sweden
  • Maged Dessouky, University of Southern California, USA
  • Sundaresh Heragu, University of Louisville, USA
  • S. Kameshwaran, ISB-Hyderabad, India
  • Soundar Kumara, Penn State University, USA
  • Jingshan Li, University of Kentucky, USA
  • George Liberopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece
  • Ng Kien Ming, National University of Singapore
  • Rakesh Nagi, University at Buffalo, USA
  • Michael Ogle, Material Handling Industry of America, USA
  • Yanfeng Ouyang, University of Illinois
  • S. G. Ponnambalam, Monash University, Malaysia
  • G. N. S. Prasanna, IIITB, India
  • Narayan Rangaraj, IITB, India
  • K. S. P. Rao, Anna University, India
  • Gina Tang, Rowan University, USA
  • M. K. Tiwari, IIT Kharagpur, India
  • Reha Uzsoy, North Carolina State University, USA
  • Frank Van der Stappen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • V. Vyatkin, Unversity of Aukland, New Zealand


Life Sciences and Health Care

  • Xiaolan Xie, Ecole National Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France (Chair)
  • Mark Holl, Arizona State University, USA (Co-Chair)
  • Eva Lee, Georgia Tech, USA (Co-Chair)
  • John Wen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, (Co-Chair)
  • Doo Yong Lee, KAIST, Korea
  • Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Yu Sun, University of Toronto, Canada


Meso, Micro and Nano-Scale Automation

  • Mingjun Zhang, University of Tennessee, USA (Chair)
  • James Morrison, KAIST, Korea (Co-Chair)
  • Wai Kin Victor Chan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Shi-Chung Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Shengwei Ding, Leachman and Associates LLC, USA
  • Boyd Mccutchen Evans III, Oak Ridge National Labs
  • Yang Ge, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Tad Hogg, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
  • Qiang Huang, University of Southern Florida
  • Andres Jaramillo-Botero, California Institute of Technology, USA
  • MuDer Jeng, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
  • Ou Ma, New Mexico State University, USA
  • Fei Qiao, Tongji University, China
  • David Tao, Brooks Automation, USA
  • Naiqi Wu, Guangdong University of Technology, China
  • Zhengmao Ye, Southern University, USA
  • Jingang Yi, Rutgers University, USA
  • Xiaopeng Zhao, University of Tennessee, USA