Editors and Liaisons

Editors in Chief



Stefano Stramigioli
Prof. Stefano Stramigioli
EiC
S.Stramigioli@ieee.org

 

Stefano Stramigioli received the M.Sc. with honors (cum laude) in 1992 and the Ph.D with honors (cum laude) in 1998. Since 1998 he has been faculty member first as assistant and then associate professor. He is currently an officer and Senior Member of IEEE. He is chairing the Technical Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is a member of the ESA Topical Team on Dynamics of Prehension in Micro-gravity and its application to Robotics and Prosthetics. He is involved in different projects related to Control, Robotics, MEMS and Intelligent Transportation Systems and coordinator of the European Project named Geoplex .

 



Kimon P. Valavanis
Prof. Kimon P. Valavanis
Emeritus EiC
k.valavanis@ieee.org

 

Kimon P. Valavanis received the Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (5 years of study) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in June 1981. He completed the Professional Engineer (PE) exams in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in February 1982. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1984 and 1986, respectively.

Associate Editors



Kathryn W. Jablokow
Prof. Kathryn W. Jablokow
kwl3@psu.edu

 

Kathryn W. Jablokow received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University in 1989. After spending one year as an NSF/NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, she joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University in 1990, where she is now an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Jablokow conducts research in computationally efficient multibody dynamics, adaptive control, and applications of screw theory to robotics. She has also developed a graduate-level certificate program in creativity and problem solving for scientists and engineers, and is currently being funded to investigate the invention process.

Expertise: kinematics, multi-body dynamics, dynamic simulation, multiple-robot systems

 

Herbert Tanner
Prof. Herbert Tanner
tanner@unm.edu

 

Herbert Tanner received his Diploma and his PhD in ME from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1996 and 2001 respectively. From 2001 to 2003 he was a post-doc with the Electrical and Systems Engineering Dep. at UPenn. As a member of the GRASP Laboratory at UPenn, he was involved in projects funded by DARPA. In 2003, he joined the faculty of the Department of ME at the University of New Mexico where he is currently an Assistant Professor.

Expertise: cooperative planning and control of interconnected multi-agent systems, coordination of mobile sensor and actuatorS networks, nonholonomic motion planning and control, hybrid modeling of embedded control systems, and mobile manipulation of deformable material.

 

Alex Zelinsky
Prof. Alex Zelinsky
Alex.Zelinsky@csiro.au

 

Alex Zelinsky is Director of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Centre within the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia (www.ict.csiro.au). Prior to joining CSIRO Dr. Zelinsky Professor of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University (1996-2004). He received his Bachelor (1983) and PhD (1991) degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Dr. Zelinsky was CEO and co-founder of Seeing Machines Pty Ltd (2000-2004) (www.seeingmachines.com).

Expertise:mobile robotics, human-machine interaction, intelligent transportation systems and real-time computer vision systems.

 

Gregory S. Chirikjian
Prof. Gregory S. Chirikjian
gregc@jhu.edu

 

Gregory S. Chirikjian (M'93) was born August 16, 1966 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He received the B.S.E. degree in engineering mechanics, the M.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering, and the B.A. degree in mathematics, all from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, in 1988. He then received the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, in 1992. Since the summer of 1992, he has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, where he is now Professor and Chair. Dr. Chirikjian is a 1993 NSF Young investigator, a 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellow, and a 1996 recipient of the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal.

Expertise:: kinematic analysis, motion planning, design, and implementatation of biologically inspired robots. In particular, ``hyper-redundant,'' ``metamorphic,'' and ``binary'' manipulators, and most recently self-replicating robots. In recent years Dr. Chirikjian has also been applying methods from robotics to model conformational transitions in biological macromolecules.

 

Cristian Secchi
Dr. Cristian Secchi
secchi.cristian@unimore.it

 

Cristian Secchi received the M.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering in July 2000 from the University of Bologna (I) and the Ph.D. in Information Engineering, curriculum Automation, in 2004 from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I). Between the two degrees he has been working as a visiting scientist at the Delft University of Technology. Since January 2005 he is faculty member as assistant professor at the Department of Sciences and Methods of Engineering (DISMI) of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I). He is involved in research projects related to control of industrial robots, haptics, telemanipulation and factory automation.

Expertise: telemanipulation, haptics, control of interactive robotic interfaces, teleoperation, robot control.

 

Magnus Egerstedt
Dr. Magnus Egerstedt
magnus@ece.gatech.edu

 

Magnus Egerstedt was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 1996 and 2000 respectively. His graduate research was on hybrid control systems, with emphasis on motion planning and control of mobile robots. He also received a B.A. degree in Philosophy and Linguistics from Stockholm University in 1996. During 1998 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Robotics Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and he spent 2000-2001 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. Following this he joined the Systems and Controls Group at Georgia Tech in 2001.

Expertise: Robot Control, Hybrid automatas, mobile robotics..

 

Liaisons

Frank C. Park
Prof. Frank C. Park
T-RO's Liaison
fcp@plaza.snu.ac.kr

 

Frank Chongwoo Park received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1985, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1991. From 1991 to 1994 he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Since 1995 he has been at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University, where he is currently full professor. He currently also serves as a senior editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Expertise: robot mechanics and control, movement coordination and learning, mathematical systems theory.

 

Michael Yu Wang
Prof. Michael Yu Wang
T-ASE's Liaison
yuwang@acae.cuhk.edu.hk

 

Michael Yu Wang Professor Michael Yu Wang has been with CUHK since 2000 and is the director of Computational Modeling and Design Laboratory. Prior to joining CUHK, he had been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Maryland at College Park for ten years, where he was an Associate Professor and the Director of the Manufacturing Automation Laboratory. He was also an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Systems Research of that University. Professor Wang received his B.S degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) (1982), M.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Pennsylvania State University (1985), and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1989).

 

Kostas Kyriakopoulos
Prof. Kostas Kyriakopoulos
EURON Liaison
kkyria@central.ntua.gr

 

Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1962. He received the Diploma in mechanical engineering with Honors from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1985 and the MS and Ph.D. in Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY in 1987 and 1991, respectively. From 1988 to 1991 he did research at the NASA Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration. Between 1991-93 he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department of RPI and the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Automation and Robotics. Since 1994 he has been with the Control Systems Laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering Department at NTUA, Greece, where he currently serves as an Associate Professor and Director of the Computers Lab.

Expertise:Nonlinear Control, Sensor Based Motion Planning & Control, Autonomous Vehicles (Mobile, Underwater, Aerial) and Micro-Mechatronics

 

Editorial Assistant



Rosalyn Graham Snyder
Mrs. Rosalyn Graham Snyder
Editorial Assistant
RAS Activities Coordinator
r.g.snyder@ieee.org

 

Rosalyn Graham Snyder has worked for the IEEE Robotics and Automation community since 1987,  Prior to her work with IEEE, she was a writer and editor for the North Carolina Office of Water Resources, and the North Carolina State University College of Engineering. She also served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in central Africa, where she taught English and history to secondary school students.

She received the B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina and the M.S. in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She telecommutes from her office in Raleigh NC.

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