My Campaign Goal

If I am elected, it will be for the first time in the IEEE RAS Ad Com that a researcher will represent Latin America and low-income countries.

BIOGRAPHY

Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano is a distinguished professor at CINVESTAV Guadalajara and an associate professor at Poznan University of Technology (Poland).

He is the general chair of ICRA 2028, which is to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico.

As a professor, he held lectures, supervised 45 MSc. and 33 Ph.D. students, and carried out research in the fields of AI, Deep Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision, Medical Image Processing, Medical Robotics, Quantum Computing, and Applications of Clifford Algebra in Perception Action Systems. He designed and built mobile robots and two humanoids. He conducted nine complex applied projects in engineering. He organized seven international conferences as a general chair. He wrote eight books and published 277 articles. He is a 2016 IAPR fellow and an IEEE senior member. His MSc., Ph.D., and Postdoc studies, as well as his recent scientific activities, are related to geometric cybernetics, which encompasses the fields of pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, neurocomputing, deep learning, robotics, robot modeling and control, humanoids, quadrotors, and quantum computing.

IEEE and non-IEEE Activities List of IEEE

Activities.

Associate Editor of IEEE-Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems 2013- 2017.

Associate Editor: IEEE Int. Conference, on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2013- 2020

Editor: IEEE Int. Conference, on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2021-2024 Associate Editor: IEEE –RAS Int. Conference on Humanoids 2013-2024

General Chair of IEEE-RAS Humanoids’2016, Cancun, México. November 15th – 17th, 290 papers submitted, 193 accepted and published.

June 2019, plenary talk at IEEE/RAS ROMOCO’2019, July 8-10, 2019, Theme: Geometric Cybernetics for social robotics

Invited IEEE Lecture at Polytechnic University, Poznan, Poland, June 11, 2019, theme: Geometric Cybernetics for Robotics.

List of Non-IEEE Activities

Member of the Mexican Academy of Science

General Chair of the Mexican Association of Computer Vision Neurocomputing and Robotics (MACVNR), recognized by the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

General chair of conferences

1. Founder (in 1998) and General Chair of the Conference Applications of Geometric Algebra In Computer Science and Engineering AGACSE. It has taken place every three years since 1998.
2. General Chair of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cancun, ICPR’2016, Cancun, December 1-7, 2016. 1200 papers submitted, 673 published
3. General Chair of IEEE-RAS Humanoids’2016, Cancun, México. November 15th -17th, 290 papers submitted, 193 accepted and published
4. Eduardo Bayro Chair, Edwin Hancock Co-Chair of the Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition. Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition CIARP’2014, Puerto Vallarta, November 2th-15th 2014, Jalisco, México.
5. Eduardo Bayro Chair, Olof Ecklund Co-Chair of the Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition. CIARP’2009, Guadalajara, November 15th-18th 2009, Guadalajara, México
6. Eduardo Bayro Chair, G. Sheuermann Chair of the 3rd Int. Conf. On Applications of Geometric Algebra in Computer Science and Engineering, AGACSE’2008, Grimma, Leipzig, Germany, 17-19 August 2008.

Author of Books

1. Geometric Computing for Perception Action Systems. Eduardo Bayro- Corrochano, Springer Verlag, April 2001.
2. Geometric Algebra with Application in Science and Engineering. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano and Garret Sobczyk (eds.), Birkhauser, Boston, March 2001.
3. Handbook of Geometric Computing. Applications in Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, May 2005.
4. Geometric Computing for Wavelet Transforms. Robot Vision, Control, Learning Control and Action, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, Springer Verlag, London, 2010.
5. Geometric Algebra Computing for Engineering and Computer Science. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano and Gerik Sheuermann (eds.), Springer Verlag, London, 2010.
6. Geometric Algebra Applications Vol I: Computer Vision, Graphics and Neural Computing, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, Springer Verlag, June 2018.
7. Geometric Algebra Applications Vol. II: Robotics and Control, Springer Verlag 2019.
8. Geometric Algebra Applications Vol III: Integral Transforms, Machine Learning and Quantum Computing, Springer Verlag, August 2024.

Guest Editor

1. Special Issue of Journal Robotica: Geometry in robotics and sensing, Volume 26, Special Issue 04, 2008
2. Special Issue of International Journal of Humanoid Robotics: Cognitive Humanoid Robot Vision 7(3), 2010.
3. Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Letters: Advances in Theory and Applications of Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Computer Vision. Vol. 32, 2011.
4. Special Issue of Intelligent Data Analysis; Intelligent Computing for Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Computer Vision, Volume: 20, S1, pages, s1-s3, 2016.
5. Special Issue: Signal and Image Processing, Integral Transforms, Cognition and Robotics Using Geometric Algebra, in Advances in Applications of Clifford Algebra, Vol. 26, 885-888,2016

Invited speaker/plenary talk

July 1999, First Int. Workshop on Applied Clifford Algebra in Cybernetics, Robotics, Image Processing and Engineering: ACACSE’99 (Ixtapa, M’exico, 28.06.99– 03.07.99).Theme: Application of Geometric Clifford Algebras in Computer Vision

April 2003, MATA’2003, Third International Conference on Multivariate Approximation: Theory and Applications. Cancun, Mexico, April 24-29, 2003.Theme: The quaternion wavelet transform: theory and applications.

June 2004, ICAISC’2004, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Softcomputing. Zakopane, Poland, June 7-11, 2004.Theme: Geometric neurocomputing using Clifford geometric algebra for visual and robotic learning.

October 2004, Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP’2004, Puebla, Mexico, October 2004, Theme: (keynote) Clifford geometric algebra: a promising framework for computer vision, robotics, and learning.

May 2005, plenary talk at the Int. Conf. on Clifford Algebras and their Applications, Toulouse France, May 19-29, 2005, Theme: Conformal geometric algebra for robotics vision.

November 2005, Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP’2005, Habana, Cuba, November 2005, Theme: (keynote) Conformal computational geometry for perception and action.

May 2008, plenary talk at the Int. Conf. on Clifford Algebras and their Applications, Sao Paolo, Campinas, Brazil, May 26-30, 2008, Theme: Conformal geometric algebra for robotics vision.

Juli 2011, plenary talk at the Int. Conf. on Clifford Algebras and their Applications, ICCA9, Weimar, Germany, July 15-20, 2011, Theme: Geometric algebra for robot physics.

Juli 2017, plenary talk at the Int. Conf. on Clifford Algebras and their Applications, Gent, Belgium, Theme: Geometric algebra for robotics vision.

June 2019, plenary talk at IEEE/RAS ROMOCO’2019, July 8-10, 2019, Theme: Geometric Cybernetics for social robotics

POSITION STATEMENT

On May 18 of this year, the RAS Adcom made one of the most historic and consequential decisions in the history of the society: they chose Guadalajara, Mexico, as the site of the 2028 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. I, and the thousands of roboticists scattered throughout the 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, are overwhelmed with emotion, and grateful to the RAS Adcom members who had the courage and vision to take this truly bold step. There are over 182 RAS chapters in Latin America, and to all the roboticists in the region – many are not yet IEEE members, not by choice but for reasons of limited access, lack of financial resources, etc. – holding ICRA 2028 in Mexico represents a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to truly engage with the global robotics research community.

My greatest fear is that ICRA 2028 becomes just a one-time event, and that afterwards RAS returns to its past practice of almost zero engagement with Latin America’s robotics community. It is for this reason that I am running for Adcom: to ensure that RAS continues to engage with the many roboticists – current and future (we are an extremely young and growing community) – in Latin America and the Caribbean, to warmly embrace our members, and to help them realize their dreams of leveraging robotics as a positive transformational technology that can uplift their communities.

I also intend to represent the hopes, dreams, and interests of roboticists from other under-represented regions throughout the world, especially South and West Asia and Africa. I view my role as giving them a voice in the Robotics and Automation Society, and also better informing the RAS leadership of the issues and priorities of the members in these under-represented regions, so that RAS can better use its many resources to truly make the robotics community an inclusive, global one.

Some specific goals that I hope to achieve as an elected member of RAS Adcom are as follows:

• Ensuring that the robotics online educational platform currently under development by RAS reflects the needs of the many members from under- represented regions.
• Ensuring that the various RAS programs designed to mentor and financially support members from under-represented regions are truly meeting their goals, that resources are being spent efficiently and wisely, and that the right groups are being reached.
• Finding concrete ways to increase RAS membership within the region, by increasing visibility of RAS, and adjusting membership fees and requirements that reflect local conditions.
• Developing ways for roboticists from under-represented regions to give back to the mainstream robotics community, by contributing their immense talent and creative ideas, and introducing the unique and context-specificproblems to the global community of roboticists.
• Financial support for visits of researchers from under-represented regions in renowned laboratories.

I appeal to all of you to make ICRA 2028 in Guadalajara, Mexico not a one-time event, but the first step in genuinely embracing Latin America and the Caribbean, and other underrepresented regions with large and growing robotics communities, and truly making RAS the global community that it aspires to be.

Thank you very much for your support.