General Chair

Gregory Dudek
General Chair
Samsung Electronics and McGill University (on leave), Canada
Program Chair

Jaydev P. Desai
Program Chair
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Editor-in-Chief

Ayanna Howard
ICRA Editor-in-Chief
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Allison Okamura
RA-L Editor-in-Chief
Stanford University, USA
Conference Organization

Venkat N. Krovi
Finance Chair
Clemson University, USA

U-Xuan Tan
Website Chair
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Erwin Prassler
Sponsorships Chair
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany

Dave Meger
Local Arrangements Chair
McGill University, Canada

Jozsef Kovecses
Local Arrangements - Co-Chair
McGill University, Canada

Jorge Angeles
Local Arrangements Committee
McGill University, Canada

David St-Onge
Robotic Art Program Chair
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

Jean-Paul Laumond
Robotic Art Program Co-chair
CNRS, France

Damith Herath
Robotic Art Program Co-chair
University of Canberra, Australia

Dominik Bösl
IAB 2017
Kuka, Germany

Toshio Fukuda
Industry Forum Chair
Nagoya University, Japan

Giovanni Beltrame
Government Forum Chair
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

Ken Goldberg
Publicity Chair
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michael Jenkin
Publicity co-chair
York University, Canada

Jonathan Kelly
Talent Recruitment Chair
University of Toronto, Canada

Clément Gosselin
Media Relations, FR
Université Laval, Canada

Yogesh Girdhar
Social Media Co-Chair
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

Malika Meghjani
Social Media Co-Chair
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, USA

Junaed Sattar
Registeration Chair
University of Minnesota, USA
Program Planning

Pietro Valdastri
Publications Chair
University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Elena De Momi
Publications Co-Chair
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Jing Xiao
Workshop and Tutorials Chair
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

M. Ani Hsieh
Workshop and Tutorials Co-Chair
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Oliver Brock
Awards Chair
Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Vijay Kumar
Awards Co-Chair
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Michael Wang
Awards Committee
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Elizabeth Croft
Video Sessions Chair
University of British Columbia, Canada

Ioannis Rekleitis
Video Sessions Co-Chair
University of South Carolina, USA

Hong Zhang
Travel Awards Chair
University of Alberta, Canada

Sarthak Misra
Travel Awards Co-Chair
University of Twente, Netherlands
Supporting Cast

Sunil Agrawal
Columbia University, USA

Fumihito Arai
Nagoya University, Japan

Wolfram Burgard
Toyota Research Institute & University of Freiburg, Germany

Darwin Caldwell
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Alicia Casals
Technical University of Catalonia, USA

Kostas Daniilidis
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Pierre Dupont
Harvard Medical School, USA

Antoine Ferreira
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, France

Eugenio Guglielmelli
Università Campus Bio-Medico, Italy

John Hollerbach
University of Utah, USA

Seth Hutchinson
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Bradley Nelson
ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Rajni Patel
Western University, Canada

Joelle Pineau
McGill University, Canada

Stergios Roumeliotis
University of Minnesota, USA

Nicholas Roy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Shigeki Sugano
Waseda University, Japan

Gaurav S. Sukhatme
University of Southern California, USA

Steven Waslander
University of Waterloo, Canada

Stefan Williams
University of Sydney, Australia