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)

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
Human-Machine Teaming Laboratory
Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: My lab, the Human-Machine Teaming laboratory pursues projects related to 1) Human-robotic interaction and 2) multiple robot coordination and cooperation.

Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Assistive Technology, Multi-agent communication

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

PhD Student, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence