Organization Committee

Organization Committee

General Chairs

Mounia Ziat, Bentley University, USA

Manuel Cruz, Innovobot, Canada  


Publication Chairs

Roope Raisamo, Tampere University, Finland

Craig Shultz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Sang Ho Yoon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea


Program Chair

Lynette Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA


Work-in-Progress Chairs

Michael Zinn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Vincent Levesque, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada

Hasti Seifi, Arizona State University, USA


Posters Chairs

Hsin-Ni Ho, Kyushu University, Japan

Claudio Pacchierotti, CNRS, Univ Rennes, Inria, IRISA , France

Charles Dhong, University of Delaware, USA


Workshops and Tutorials Chairs

Pedro Lopes, University of Chicago, USA

Joshua Brown, Imperial College London, UK

Jin Ryong Kim, University of Texas-Dallas, USA


Student Innovation Challenge Chair

Jung-Hwan Youn, University of Alberta, Canada

Peter Roberts, Carnegie Mellon University, USA


Demonstrations Chairs

Yongjae Yoo, Hanyang University, Korea

Krista Overliet, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Rebecca Friesen, Texas A&M University, USA


Registration Chair

Ilja Frissen, McGill University, Canada


Finance Chair

Margot Racat, IDRAC Business School, France


Sponsorship and Exhibits Chairs

Satoshi Saga, Kumamoto University, Japan

Ahmed Farooq, Tampere University, Finland 

Antoine Weill-Duflos, Haply, Canada

Giacinto Barresi, UWE Bristol, UK


Social Media Chair

Ad Spiers, Imperial College London, USA


Student Volunteers Chairs

Donald Degraen, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Amy Kyungwon Han, Seoul National University, Korea

Aishwari Talhan, SUNY RF University at Albany, USA


Publicity Chairs

Melisa Orta Martinez, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Taku Hachisu, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Femke van Beek, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands


Website Chairs

Cara M. Nunez, Cornell University, USA

Devbrat Anuragi, Tampere University, Finland


Awards Chair

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany


Industry and Innovation Chair

Hong Z. Tan, Google, USA


Local Arrangements Chairs

Sylvain Famié, Bentley University, USA

Zarah (Z.) Sikora, Bentley University, USA

Tammy Rose, Bentley University, USA


Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Chairs

Sabrina Paneels, CEA

Ildar Farkhatdinov, King’s College London , UK


Haptic Design Track Chair

Kouta Minamizawa, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Tokyo, Japan