Industrial Activities Board

The Industrial Activities board is responsible for all industrial related matters and the growth of the industrial community within RAS, both by promoting the participation of industrial partners in current activities and thus creating more links with academics, and by proposing new actions beneficial to this community. This Board is composed of the Chair and four additional members appointed by the President in consultation with the Vice President for Industrial Activities.

Vice President - Industrial Activities

Robert Ambrose

Vice President

NASA Johnson Space Center
Houston (TX), USA

E: robert.o.ambrose@nasa.gov

Dominik Bösl

Vice President

KUKA
Augsburg, Germany

E: boesl@ieee.org

Associate Vice President - Entreprenuership and Access to Talent

Tamás Haidegger

Associate Vice President - Instruments for improving outreach and providing access to talent

Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary
ACMIT, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

E: haidegger@ieee.org

Associate Vice President - Operations

Sebastian Bedacht

AVP of IAB - Operations

Panasonic
Munich, Germany

E: sebastian.bedacht@eu.panasonic.com

Associate Vice President - Standards

Craig Schlenoff

AVP of IAB - Standards

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Gaithersburg (MD), USA

E: craig.schlenoff@nist.gov

Associate Vice President - Thought Leadership & Outreach 

Edson Prestes

AVP of IAB - Thought Leadership & Outreach

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, Brazil

E: edsonprestesufrgs@gmail.com

Student Representative

Geoff Nagy

Student Representative

Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, Canada

E: gnagy@sfu.ca

Members

Elena Garcia

Members

Marsibionics
Madrid, Spain

E: elena.garcia@marsibionics.com

Sabine Hauert

Members

University of Bristol
Bristol, England

E: sabine.hauert@bristol.ac.uk

Zexiang Li

Members

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong, China

E: eezxli@ust.hk

Raj Madhavan

Members

Humanitarian Robotics Technologies, LLC
Maryland, USA

E: raj.madhavan@ieee.org

Website:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajmadhavan

Mario Munich

Members

Evolutions Robotics
Sierra Madre (CA), United States

E: mariomu@ieee.org

Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

Members

University of Minnesota
Minnesota (MN), United States

E: npapas@cs.umn.edu

RAS President

Wolfram Burgard

President

University of Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany

E: burgard@ieee.org