IEEE RAS welcomes 2010 with new officers

Effective January 1, 2010 the officers and adcom members of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society:

• President: Kazuhiro Kosuge
• President Elect: David Orin
• Secretary: Kevin Lynch
• Treasurer: Xiaoping Yun
• Past President: Bruno Siciliano
• Vice President for Publication Activities: Peter Luh
• Vice President for  Conference Activities: Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
• Vice President for Technical Activities: John Hollerbach
• Vice President for Member Activities: Stefano Stramigioli
• Vice President for Industrial Activities:Alex Zelinsky
• Vice President for Financial Activities: William Hamel

Elected/Appointed AdCom members

Terms ending in 2012

• Hugh Durrant-Whyte
• Danica Kragic
• Vijay Kumar
• Jean-Paul Laumond
• Roland Siegwart
• Jing Xiao 

Terms ending in 2011

• Nancy Amato
• Fumihito Arai
• Antotnio Bicchi
• Aude Billard
• Hideki Hashimoto
• C.S. George Lee (appointed to fill the unexpired term of David Orin)
• Tamas Haidegger (Student AdCom Member, appointed for a two year term)

Terms ending 2010

• Martin Buss (appointed to fill the unexpired term of Stefano Stramigioli)
• Peter Corke
• Alessandro De Lucao
• Lynne Parker
• Shigeki Sugano
• Satoshi Tadokoro

The voting members of the RAS Administrative Committee include the President, Vice President, President Elect, Past President, Secretary , Treasurer, a Student AdCom Representative, and eighteen members who are elected by the RAS membership. If an elected member resigns to take another office or for other reasons, the president appoints a member to complete the unexpired term.