Conference Activities Board

The Conference Activities Board shall be responsible for the management and planning of all of the conference and meeting activities of the Society. This includes monitoring the quality of any publications associated with any of these conference activities. It shall also monitor and coordinate all conference operating committees and carry out all the long-term conference planning for Society meetings. This Board shall be charged with keeping itself informed of all meetings which are in areas covered by the Field of Interest of the Society and shall advise the AdCom about the participation of the Society in such meetings.

In conjunction with the Member Activities Board, the Conference Activities Board will provide oversight on the selection and operation of the RAS Technical Education Programs and RAS-sponsored competitions.

RAS financially sponsors approximately 10 conferences, co-sponsors 15 more, and technically sponsors 15 others. The Conference Activities Board manages this large conference portfolio through four committees: 

• Conference Finance Committee (CAB-F)
• Conference Publications Committee (CAB-P)
• Conference Technical Programs Committee (CAB-T)
• Conference Operations Committee (CAB-O)

The Conference Technical Programs Committee (formerly Steering Committee for Technical Programs, SCTP) oversees the technical planning and content of conferences. It also oversees the Conference Workshop Oversight Committee (CAB-WOC) and the Conference Editorial Board, which is charged with reviewing papers for ICRA.

Vice President

Torsten Kroeger

Vice President- Conference Activities

Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany

E: torsten@kit.edu

Associate Vice President - Conference Finance

Helge Wurdemann

Associate Vice President- Conference Finance

University College London
London, England, UK

E: h.wurdemann@ucl.ac.uk

Associate Vice President - Conference Operations

Karinne Ramirez Amaro

Associate Vice President- Conference Operations

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Gothenburg, Sweden

E: karinne@chalmers.se

Associate Vice President - Conference Publications

Zhidong Wang

Associate Vice President- Conference Publications

Chiba Institute of Technology
Chiba, Japan

E: zhidong.wang@it-chiba.ac.jp

Associate Vice President - Technical Program

Seth Hutchinson

Associate Vice President- Technical Programs

Georgia Tech
Atlanta (GA), USA

E: seth@gatech.edu

Assistant Vice President

Pascal Meissner

Assistant Vice President

Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany

E: pascal.meissner@kit.edu

Competitions Committee Chair

Minoru Asada

Competitions Committee Chair

Osaka University
Osaka, Japan

E: asada@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Workshop Oversight Committee Chair

Oliver Brock

Workshop Oversight Committee Chair

Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany

E: oliver.brock@tu-berlin.de

Members

Kaspar Althoefer

Members

Queen Mary University of London
London, UK

E: k.althoefer@qmul.ac.uk

Gianluca Antonelli

Members

University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Rome, Italy

E: antonelli@unicas.it

Jaydev Desai

Members

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta (GA), USA

E: jaydev@gatech.edu

Greg Dudek

Members

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

E: dudek@cim.mcgill.ca

Yi Guo

Members

Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken (NJ), United States

E: yguo1@stevens.edu

Ayanna Howard

Members

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta (GA), USA

E: ayanna.howard@ece.gatech.edu

Venkat Krovi

Members

Clemson University
Clemson (SC), USA

E: vkrovi@clemson.edu

Lianqing Liu

Members

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liaoning, China

E: lqliu@sia.cn

Geoff Nagy

Members

Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, Canada

E: gnagy@sfu.ca

Yasushi Nakauchi

Members

University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Japan

E: nakauchi@iit.tsukuba.ac.jp

Stéphane Régnier

Members

University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC)
Paris, France

E: stephane.regnier@upmc.fr

Richard Vaughan

Members

Simon Fraser University
British Columbia, Canada

E: vaughan@sfu.ca

Alex Zelinsky

Members

Defense Science and Technology Group (DTSO)
Australia

E: alex.zelinsky@defence.gov.au

RAS President

Wolfram Burgard

President

University of Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany

E: burgard@ieee.org