Organizing Committee
GENERAL CHAIR
Mo Jamshidi
The University of New Mexico
moj@wacong.org

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Edward Tunstel
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
tunstel@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov

Gary Anderson
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
gtanderson@ualr.edu


SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS:
Madjid Fathi
Georgia Institute of Technology
 madjid.fathi@mse.gatech.edu

Gerry Dozier
Auburn University
gvdozier@eng.auburn.edu


PUBLICATION CHAIRS:
Mark Johnson
Aerospace Corporation
 Mark.A.Johnson@aero.org 

Philip Chen
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Philip.Chen@utsa.edu


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIRS:
Chair: Sevki Erdogan,
University of Hawaii at Hilo
sevki@hawaii.edu

Co-Chair: Song Choi
University of Hawaii at Manoa
schoi@hawaii.edu
FINANCE CHAIR:
Djuro G. Zrilic
New Mexico Highlands University
djuro@engr.nmhu.edu
 

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Daniel Cox
University of North Florida
dcox@unf.edu
SOCIAL CHAIR:
Song Choi
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii
schoi@hawaii.edu

STUDENTS ACTIVITY CHAIR:
Aly El-Osery,
New Mexico Institute of Technology
aly.elosery@ieee.org

Society Chair: Anna Zyzniewski,
Natural Resources Canada
Anna.Zyzniewski@nrcan.gc.ca
 
TUTORIAL CHAIR:
Ayanna Howard,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
howard@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov
 

EXHIBITION CHAIRS :
Joe Ritter,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii
joeritter3@yahoo.com

Tak Sugimura,
Maui High Performance Computing Center
tak@mhpcc.edu

 EUROPEAN LIASONS:
Abdelkader El Kamel,
Ecole Centrale de Lille
abdelkader.elkamel@ec-lille.fr

Da Ruan, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
druan@sckcen.be
 
SOUTH PACIFIC LIAISON:
Saeid Nahavandi,
Deakin University,
nahavand@deakin.edu.au
 
 		 ASIAN LIAISONS:
Zenn Bien,
Korea Advanced Institute for
Science and Technology,
zbien@ee.kaist.ac.kr

Tsu-Tian Lee,
National Chiao Tung University,
ttlee@cn.nctu.edu.tw
 

Program Committee
Aazhang, B.
Abachi, H.
Abe, S.
Adams, J.A.
Agassounon, W.
Ahmadi, M.
Akbarzadeh-T, M.
Amato, N.
Anderson, G.T.
Arabshahi, P.
Asgharzadeh, A.
Assad, C.
Assfalk de Oliveira, M.
Banerjee, A.
Basir, O.,
Bass, E.
Basu, A.
Becerra-Fernandez, I.
Bekey, G.A.
Beling, P.
Bellifemine, F.
Benitez-Read, J.
Bennett, R.
Berenji, H.
Berman, S.
Berruet, P.
Berthold, M.R.
Bhattacharya, P.
Bien, Z.
Bisantz, A.
Blank, D.
Booker, J.M.
Borne, P.
Boudriga, N.
Brown, D.
Bruder, S.
Butts, R.R.
Carreras, R.A.
Chan, Y.
Chen, J.
Chen, P.
Cheng, I.
Choi, S.
Chou, J.-H.
Clark, M.
Cloete, I.
Collins, E.
Colombo, A.W.
Combs, W.E.
Cook, D.J.
Cox, D.
Crews, M.
De Rego, P.
De Silva, C.W.
Desai, R.
Diftler, M.
Dorigo, M.
Dozier, G.V.
Edan, Y.
Edwards, D.
El Kamel, A.
El-Koursi, E.
El-Osery, A.
Embrechts, M.J.
Erdogan, S.		 Esogbue, A.
Fang, L.
Fanti, M.-P.
Fathi, M.
Feddema, J.
Figueroa, F.
Fletcher, M.
Gao, M.-M.
Gao, X.
Gersting, J.
Gomide, F.
Gruver, W.A.
Guerlain, S.
Gupta, M.M.
Hadaegh, F.
Hall, L.
Hashemi, R.
Hata, Y.
Hayes, C.
Helgason, C.M.
Herrick, D.
Hessami, A.
Hexmoor, H.
Hipel, K.
Hoffmann, F.
Homaifar, A.
Howard, A.
Hruz, B.
Huang, H.-P.
Huntsberger, T.
Iqbal, K.
Jafari, M.
Jamieson, G.
Jamshidi, M.
Jeng, M.
Jiang, G.
Jiang, Z.
Johnson, M.A.
Jones, J.
Jones, P.
Joslyn, C.
Kamel, M.
Kamrani, A.A.
Karray, F.
Kawamura, K.
Kaynak, O.
Kehtarnavaz, N.
Keviczky, L.
Kim, Y.T.
Kobashi, S.
Koczy, L.
Koivo, A.
Koivo, H.
Kotak, D.
Kozma, R.
Kulhavy, R.
Kumarawadu, S.
Kumbla, K.
Kwon, T.M.
Lai, W.K.
Lautenbach, K.
Lee, D.Y.
Lee, J.W.T.
Lee, M.-Y.
Lee, S.R.		 Lee, T.H.
Lee, T.-T.
Li, X.
Lin, C.T.
Liu, J.
Liu, Z.-Q.
Lopez-Mellado, E.
Ma, X.
Maciejewski, A.A.
Madni, A.
Madni, A.M.
Maier, M.W.
Marik, V.
Martinez, A.
Maturana, F.
McCauley-Bell, P.
McKee, G.T.
Michaloski, J.
Mireles, J.
Mitchell, C.
Moebes, T.
Moore, L.A.
Müller, J.
Nahavandi, S.
Narahari, Y.
Nava, P.
Nguyen, C.C.
Obaidat, M.
Oh, B.-J.
Ollero, A.
Ovaska, S.
Parker, G.
Parkinson, W.J.
Patel, R.
Pattichis, M.
Peng, S.-S.
Pin, F.
Pirjanian, P.
Prasad, N.(R.)
Qiao, L.
Qiu, R.G.
Rad, A.B.
Reschke, D.
Reuter, M.
Reza, H.
Ruan, D.
Rubin, S.
Rudas, I,
Sadek, D.
Saeks, R.
Saffiotti, A.
Sahin, F.
Saif, M.
Santhanam, B.
Santiago, J.M.
Sarjoughian, H.
Sarkar, P.
Schenker, P.
Schultz, A.
Sepehri, N.
Seraji, H.
Shafai, B.
Shahidehpour, M.
Shaneyfelt, T.
Shehory, O.		 Shelton, R.
Sheremetov, L.
Shirkhodaie, A.
Sim, B.K.-M.
Simpson, J.J.
Skubic, M.
Smith, C.H.
Smith, M.H.
Sobh, T.M.
Song, K.-T.
Song, T.
Sridhar, P.
Starks, S.A.
Sudkamp, T.
Sugimura, T.
Sujan, V.
Tai, H.-M.
Takagi, H.
Tan, K.K.
Tang, Y.(G.)
Tang, Y.Y.
Tarokh, M.
Thissen, W.
Tien, J.
Trajkovic, L.
Tunstel, E.
Tzafestas, E.
Ugur, A.
Vadiee, N.
Valckenaers, P.
Vlcek, T.
Vrba, P.
Wagner, M.
Wang, C.-H.(C.)
Wang, F.-Y.
Wang, L.
Wang, W.-J.
Wang, X.
Wang, Y.
Warwick, K.
Wedeward, K.
Weisbin, C.R.
Weng, J.
Werbos, P.
White, C.(C.)
Wieringa, P.A.
Wigand, R.T.
Wright, A.
Wu, N.N.
Wu, N.Q.
Xavier, P.
Yang, S.H.
Yang, S.X.
Yeung, D.
Yu, H.
Yu, W.
Yuh, J.
Zaidi, A.K.
Zeigler, B.
Zha, H.
Zhang, H.
Zhou, M.-C.
Zhu, H.
Zrilic, D.
Zyzniewski, A.