Main Sponsors

• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE)

Cooperative Societies

• The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
• The Japan Society for Precision Engineering
• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
• The Robotics Society of Japan
• Scheduling Society of Japan
• The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

Advisory Committee

Dr. Masayoshi Tomizuka
Chair
Cheryl and John Neerhout, Jr. Distinguished Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
USA

Dr. Tohru Watanabe
Co-Chair
Emeritus Professor
Ritsumeikan University
Japan

Organizing Committee

Jian Cao (Northwestern University)
Chair
Cardiss Collins Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
USA

Dr. Hideki Aoyama
Co-Chair
Professor, Department of System Design Engineering
Keio University
Japan

Program Committee

Jiong Tang
Chair
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Connecticut
USA

Dr. Soichi Ibaraki
Co-Chair
Professor, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering
Hiroshima University
Japan