Governmental Interaction Committee

This committee shall report to the President of the Society. The Committee shall be responsible for serving as a focal point and gateway regarding relationships, activities, and key issues with RAS-related government programs and their representatives – on an international scale. The committee will facilitate conference forums and other events to provide society members awareness about research directions, strategies, and societal implications.

Chair

Bill Hamel

Chair

University of Tennessee
Knoxville (TN), United States

E: whamel@utk.edu

Members

Robert Ambrose

Members

Texas A&M
College Station (TX), USA

E: rambrose@tamu.edu

Hajime Asama

Members

University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

E: asama@robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Wolfram Burgard

Members

University of Technology Nuremberg
Nuremberg, Germany

E: burgard@ieee.org

Dominik Bösl

Members

KUKA
Augsburg, Germany

E: boesl@ieee.org

Raja Chatila

Members

ISIR, Sorbonne Université
Paris, France

E: raja.chatila@isir.upmc.fr

Rüdiger Dillmann

Members

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe, Germany

E: ruediger.dillmann@kit.edu

Lianqing Liu

Members

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liaoning, China

E: lqliu@sia.cn

Yasushi Nakauchi

Members

University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Japan

E: nakauchi@iit.tsukuba.ac.jp

Satoshi Tadokoro

Members

Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan

E: tadokoro@rm.is.tohoku.ac.jp

Bram Vanderborght

Members

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussel, Belgium

E: bram.vanderborght@vub.ac.be

Richard Voyles

Members

Purdue University
West Lafayette (IN), USA

E: rvoyles@purdue.edu

Kazuhito Yokoi

Members

National Institute of Advanced industrial science and technology (AIST)
Tsukuba, Japan

E: kazuhito.yokoi@aist.go.jp

Junku Yuh

Members

Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Seoul, Republic of Korea

E: yuh.junku@kist.re.kr

Alex Zelinsky

Members

Defense Science and Technology Group (DTSO)
Australia

E: alex.zelinsky@defence.gov.au

President- Elect

Nancy Amato

President Elect

University of Illinois
Urbana (IL), USA

E: namato@illinois.edu

President