Future RAS President Announced

Ning Xi will serve as RAS President Elect 2016-2017. During the 3 October meeting in Hamburg, Germany, the RAS Administrative Committee elected Xi to serve as President Elect under the incoming president, Satoshi Tadokoro and to assume the Society presidency in January 2018. He is an IEEE Fellow and has served RAS on the Administrative Committee, and as past Chair of ICRA 2014, IROS 2009 and AIM 2005. 

Ning Xi received his D.Sc. degree in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1993. Currently, he is a University Distinguished Professor, the John D. Ryder Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Robotics and Automation Laboratory at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. He is a Fellow of IEEE. Dr. Xi's extensive experience in research and teaching comprise robotics and automation, in particular in the areas of control and planning for robotic systems, nano robots and manipulations, telerobotics, and manufacturing automation. Dr. Xi is a recipient of the Best Paper Award in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) and the Best Transactions Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Dr. Xi was the first to receive the Early Academic Career Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 1999.

posted 16 December 2015

 

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