Associate Professor, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Research Interests: the effects of technology on groups and team, the effect of geographic distribution on work teams, cognitive and motivational inhibitors to using and sharing expertise, and the effects of autonomous mobile robots in the work environment, including workers' responses

Professor,
The Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking (MONET) Research Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests:
- Communication Networks: Quality of Service(QoS) Support, Real-Time Protocols, Network Management, Guaranteed Services
- Middleware: QoS-aware Resource Management, Soft-real-time Scheduling, QoS Languages and Translations, QoS-aware Middlewares
- Applications: Multimedia Distributed Systems and Applications:
- Security: Multimedia and Internet Security

Associate Professor
Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering (RACE),
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Secondary Appointment in Science Integration Program - Humans,
The University of Tokyo, Japan
PRESTO Researcher, JST
Reseasrch Interests: Neuroinformatics, Robotics, Polymer Science, Data Science, Collaborative Learning, SSME (Service Science, Management and Engineering)

She has started up, been developing and organizing this "Women in Robotics and Automation" community.

Anna Loomis McCandless Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute, Mechanical Engineering, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy), Carnegie Mellon University.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, TURKEY Research Interest:rehabilitation robotics, force controller, human-robot interaction, and hybrid systems

Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the School of Engineering of the Technical University of Lisbon
Vice-Director of the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) where she carries out R&D work in the area of autonomous robotics being responsible for the Mobile Robotics Laboratory (LRM).
Research Interests: indoor and outdoor land mobile robot navigation, cooperative robotics and cooperative navigation, maping and world model and representation

Assistant Professor
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies,
the College of Letters and Science,
University of California, Berkeley

Her work has been seen in numerous festivals, including the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Summer Solstice Celebration, Dance Chicago, and the Performing Arts Chicago PAC/edge Festival. In January 2004, she traveled to Vietnam working on a project entitled Artistic Voices Across Cultures in Collaboration.

Maria Gini
Professor
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science
Member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 1998-.
Winner of the Inaugural Distinguished Women Scholars Award, University of Minnesota, 2001.
Areas of interest: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Intelligent Agents.

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research
Fellow of the Singapore - MIT Alliance

Professor
Algorithms & Applications Group
Parasol Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
USA
Research Interests: algorithmic solutions for problems in areas such as computational biology (e.g., protein folding and drug design), motion planning (e.g., animation and robotics), computational geometry, parallel and distributed computing (e.g., parallel algorithms, performance modeling & prediction), and computational science (e.g., physics, geosciences, neuroscience)