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)

Assistant Professor, the Robotics Institute and the Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Field: manipulation from demonstration, grasping, computer graphics

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

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, 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.

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.

Lecturer
Program in Science, Technology & Society
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Research interests: social robotics, human-robot interaction (HRI), impact of cultural factors on robot design, the application of social science research methods and theory to the study of HRI, fine-grained behavioral analysis, collection and coding of HRI video data.

TU Berlin, DAI Labor, Berlin, Germany
Research Interests:Developmental robotics, joint attention, robot-robot interaction and communication. Biorobotics, navigation strategies, adaptation to the environment, adaptation of different sensory modalities

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

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