RAS Congratulates Our Elevated Senior Members of June 2025

Congratulations to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Members elevated to Senior Member status by the IEEE Admission and Advancement Senior Member Review Panel in June 2025.

To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must  

  • be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields
  • have experience reflecting professional maturity
  • have been in professional practice for at least 10 years (with some credit for certain degrees).

In addition, candidates for Senior Member grade must supply three references from current IEEE Members holding the grade of Fellow, Senior Member, or Honorary Member.  For more information, visit https://www.ieee.org/membership/senior/ or email [email protected].  The names and affiliations of the new Senior Members are as follows, listed alphabetically by Region:

Region 1
Sakshi Dubey
Worcester County Section

Kowsalya Vijayan
North Jersey Section

Region 2
Changyong Cao
Cleveland Section

Bo Cheng
Central Pennsylvania Section

Juan De la Fuente
Philadelphia Section

Fabrizio Sergi
Delaware Bay Section

Region 3
Gautam Nain
Louisville Section

Region 4
Taher Alhabsi
Nebraska Section

Michael Gleicher
Madison Section

Region 5
Nikitha Edulakanti
Fort Worth Section

Huazhen Fang
Kansas City Section

Ashish Ghatge
Houston Section

Irina Rudenko
Central Texas Section

Region 6
Shyam Ravindranathan
Santa Clara Valley Section

Region 7
Stanislav Markovich
Kitchener-Waterloo Section

Region 8
Ehsan Azadi Yazdi
United Kingdom and Ireland Section

Tom Carlson
United Kingdom and Ireland Section

Aleksandr Gorbov
Estonia Section

abdullah mutawa
Kuwait Section

fabio Puglia
Italy Section

Abdul Rahaman
Saudi Arabia Section

Region 9
Hector Arismendi
Guanajuato Section

Oscar Carbajal Espinosa
Guadalajara Section

Luis Garza Castanon
Monterrey Section

Thiago Sousa
South Brazil Section

Rodrigo Verschae
Chile Section

Julio Cesar Zambrano
Ecuador Section

Region 10
SHALI A
Madras Section

Gnana Kousalaya C
Madras Section

Indhumathi C
Madras Section

Lydia Edwin
Madras Section

SUSHNIGDHA GANGIREDDY
Gujarat Section

Hann Woei Ho
Malaysia Section

Ayesha Naaz
Hyderabad Section

Umesh Neettiyath
Tokyo Section

Jinya Su
Nanjing Section

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