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.

Research Assistant,
Mitech Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Pisa, Italy
Research Interests: Microsystem Technologies (MST) for environmental and medical applications

Research Professor in the School of Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire
Research Interests: socially intelligent agants, artificial life

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

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

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.

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.

Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science Department
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890, USA
Research Interests: the effective construction of autonomous agents where cognition, perception, and
action are combined to address planning, execution, and learning tasks.

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Secondary Appointment in Computer Science
Director of the Haptic Exploration Laboratory
Faculty Member of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (Surgical Assistants Thrust Leader, 2004-present)
Johns Hopkins University, 2000-present
Research Interests: Haptic feedback in virtual environments, Human-machine collaborative systems, Reality-based modeling, Robotic fingers and hands; tactile sensing, Medical robotics and surgical assistance, Education and learning using haptics.

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)