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 CPast VP - Senior Advisorommittee (formerly Steering Committee for Technical Programs, SCTP) oversees the technical planning and content of conferences. It also oversees the Conference Editorial Board, which is charged with reviewing papers for ICRA.

Vice President

Paul Oh

Vice President- Conference Activities

University of Nevada
Las Vegas (NV), USA

E: paul.oh@unlv.edu

Associate Vice President - Conference Finance

Jianwei Zhang

Associate Vice President- Conference Finance

University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany

E: jianwei.zhang@uni-hamburg.de

Associate Vice President - Conference Operations

Emel Demircan

Associate Vice President- Conference Operations

California State University
Long Beach (CA), USA

E: Emel.Demircan@csulb.edu

Website:
http://web.csulb.edu/~edemirca/hprl.html

Associate Vice President - Conference Publications

Hyunglae Lee

Associate Vice President- Conference Publications

Arizona State University
Tempe, (AZ) USA

E: Hyunglae.Lee@asu.edu

Associate Vice President - Technical Program

Luis Sentis

Associate Vice President- Technical Programs

University of Texas at Austin
Austin (TX), USA

E: lsentis@austin.utexas.edu

Website:
http://www.me.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/sentis/luis

Competitions Committee Chair

Hyungpil Moon

Competitions Committee Chair

Sungkunkwan University
2066 Seoburo, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Korea(ROK)

E: hyungpil@g.skku.edu

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

Vijay Kumar

Members

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (PA), United States

E: kumar@seas.upenn.edu

Tony Maciejewski

Members

Colorado State University
Fort Collins (CO), USA

E: aam@colostate.edu

Max Meng

Members

Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China

E: qhmeng@ee.cuhk.edu.hk

Marcia K. O'Malley

Members

Rice University
Houston (TX), USA

E: omalleym@rice.edu

Bram Vanderborght

Members

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussel, Belgium

E: bram.vanderborght@vub.ac.be

Richard Vaughan

Members

Simon Fraser University
British Columbia, Canada

E: vaughan@sfu.ca

Past Vice President - Senior Advisor

Torsten Kroeger

Past VP- Senior Advisor

Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany

E: torsten@kit.edu

RAS President

Frank Park

President

Seoul National University
Seoul, Republic of Korea

E: fcp@snu.ac.kr