Naoko Ogawa
JSPS Research Fellow
Department of Information Physics and Computing,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

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, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Computer Science Dept., College of Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia
Research Field: sensory perception, assembly skill representation, learning from human demonstration

Fumi SETO
Kosuge & Wang Lab.
Department of Bioengineering and Robotics, Tohoku University

Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, ARTS Lab (Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Research Interests: Artificial Perception and Sensory Motor coordination in anthropomorphic robotics.

I am a reasearch scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. I teach and do research in technology for developing communities, and in autonomous team coordination.

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

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.

Project Assistant Professor, Center for IRT,
http://www.irt.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/e/index.shtml
the University of Tokyo.