SAC Governance

The Student Activities Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (“SAC”) was formed in 2006 as an initiative by the Robotics and Automation Society AdCom to represent the students' voices. As part of the Member Activities Board, the SAC consists of a chair who serves a two year term and two co-chairs who serve one year terms. The goal of the SAC is to represent students in robotics worldwide.

Chair

Helen Wang portrait
Helen Wang
Chair
University of Washington
Seattle (WA), USA

Senior Chair

Enrica Tricomi portrait
Enrica Tricomi
Senior Chair
Heidelberg University Germany
Heidelberg, Germany

RA-M Co-Chair

Dipam Patel portrait
Dipam Patel
RA-M - Student Activities Co-chair
Purdue University
West Lafayette (IN), USA

Technical Activities Co-Chair

Hye Ju Yoo portrait
Hye Ju Yoo
TA - Student Activities Co-chair
Seoul National University
Seoul, South Korea

Social Media Co-Chair

Jan Lau portrait
Jan Lau
Social Media - Student Activities Co-chair
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe, Germany

Conferences Co-Chairs

Nicola Mignoni portrait
Nicola Mignoni
Conference - Student Activities Co-chair
Politecnico di Bari
Bari, Italy
Peter Seungjune Lee portrait
Peter Seungjune Lee
Conference - Student Activities Co-chair
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe, Germany

Regional Student Representative Coordinator Co-Chair (EMEA)

Muhammed H. Aboud portrait
Muhammed H. Aboud
Regional Student Representative Coordinator - Student Activities Co-Chair (EMEA)
Mansoura University
El Mansoura, Egypt

Regional Student Representative Coordinator Co-Chair (Asia and the Pacific)

Anna Ann Mathew portrait
Anna Ann Mathew
Regional Student Representative Coordinator - Student Activities Co-Chair (Asia & Australia)
Mar Athanasius College of Engineering
Kothamangalam, India

Regional Student Representative Coordinator Co-Chair (Americas)

Nicole Naomi Caballero Canchanya portrait
Nicole Naomi Caballero Canchanya
Regional Student Representative Coordinator - Student ActivitiesCo-Chair (Americas)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
San Marcos, Peru

Past Leadership

Enrica Tricomi Chair Heidelberg University Germany 2022-2024
Cara Nunez Chair Harvard University 2020-2022
Geoff Nagy Chair Simon Fraser University 2019-2020

Megan Emmons

Chair

Colorado State University

2017-2019

Li Huang

Co-Chair

New Jersey Institute of Technology

2017

Dénes Ákos Nagy

Co-Chair

Óbuda University

2016-2017

Ye Zhao

Chair

The University of Texas at Austin

2016

Jory Denny

Co-Chair

University of Richmond

2015-2016

Lauren Miller

Chair

University of California, Berkeley

2014-2015

Arash Ajoudani

Co-Chair

Insitituto Italiano di Tecnologia

2014-2015

Patrick Wensing

Co-Chair

Ohio State University

2012-2014

Laura Margheri

Chair

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

2012-2013

Douwe Dresscher

Co-Chair

University of Twente

2012-2013

Tamas Haidegger

Chair

Óbuda University

2010-2011

Alejandro Perez

Co-Chair

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2010-2011

Marcelo L. Moreyra

Co-Chair

Universidad Nacional del Comahue

2011

Michel Franken

Co-Chair

University of Twente

2010

Carol Reiley

Chair

Stanford University

2008-2009

Junjie 'Jonjay' Zhang

Co-Chair

Texas A&M University

2009

Shogo Okamoto

Co-Chair

Nagoya University

2009

Elena Gribovskaya

Co-Chair

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2008

Phil Roan

Co-Chair

University of Washington

2008

Surya Singh

First Chair

The University of Queensland

2006-2008



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