Member, University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory
Professor and Director for IT Research in the Interest of Science, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Tele-immersive Environments, Computer Vision, AI, Robotics, Sensor Networks.

Researcher, Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
Research Interests: cognitive developmental robotics, developmental learning, joint attention, imitation

Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Physical, Medicine, and Rehabilitation, Milwaukee, WI
Research Assistant Professor, Marquette University
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Milwaukee, WI
Research Interests: Design, Mechatronics and Robotics as applied to Biomedicine and Rehabilitation

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2300
Dr. Nejat received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto in Toronto , Canada . She is currently the director of the Robotics I Laboratory and founder of the Autonomous Systems Group at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In addition, she is a faculty advisor for the Stony Brook Robot Design Team. Her current research areas include autonomous systems, robotics and mechatronics.

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida.
Director, Institute for Safety Security Rescue Technology, a Florida Type II Center that hosts the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Safety Security Rescue (SSR-RC) and the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue
Research Interests: rescue robotics, sensor fusion, fault tolerant perception, and human-robot interaction for mobile robots.

Associate Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne EPFL
President of the EPFL Assembly
Research Interests: human-robot interactions, imitation learning, speech and gesture-based communications

Assistant Professor
ARTS Lab
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Research Interests: Biomedical Microengineering

Associate Director, Industrial Automation Laboratory;
Co-Coordinator, Electro-Mechanical Engineering Option
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of British Columbia
Research Interests: Industrial Robot Motion Planning and Control, Robot-Human Interaction, Intelligent Robotic Systems, Sensor and Device Fusion and Machine Vision for Industrial Work-Cell Applications, Mechatronics

Researcher, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)
Research Interests: robotics, evolutional computation, 3D animation, signal processing, computer vision and data mining.

Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, Director of the Robotic Life Group
Research Interests: human-robot interactions, sociable robots, cooperative anthromorphic robots