Organizing Committee


General Chair


De-Shuang Huang
Tongji University, China

Program Chair


Yoonsuck Choe
Texas A&M University, USA

Program Committee


Technical Program Co-Chairs


Haibo He
University of Rhode Island, USA

Asim Roy
Arizona State University, USA

Plenary Chair


Carlo Francesco Morabito 
University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Special Sessions Co-Chairs

Mike Gashler
University of Arkansas, USA

Jose Garcia-Rodriguez
University of Alicante, Spain

Tutorials Chair


Martin McGinnity
Nottingham Trent University, UK and University of Ulster, UK

Workshop Chair


Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
INRIA, France

Poster Session Chair


Xiao-Hua (Helen) Yu
California Polytech University, USA

Competition Chair


Abir Hussain
Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Panels Chair


Juyang (John) Weng
Michigan State University, USA

Awards Chair


Plamen Angelov
Lancaster University, UK

Web Reviews Chair


Tomasz Cholewo
Lexmark International Inc., USA

Sponsors & Exhibits Chair


Hanning Zhou
Babytree Inc., China

Publications Chair


Amir Hussain
University of Stirling, UK

International Liaison


Nikola Kasabov
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

European Liaison


Péter Érdi
Kalamazoo College, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

Bill Howell
Natural Resources Canada (retired), Canada

Yun Raymond Fu
Northeastern University, USA

Giacomo Boracchi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs

Marion McAfee
Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland

Kang Li
Queen's University, Belfast, UK

 Registration Chair


Khan Iftekharuddin
Old Dominion University, USA

 Webmaster


Jaerock Kwon
Kettering University, USA