Professor Randy Beard

Brigham Young University
beard@byu.edu
http://www.ee.byu.edu/faculty/beard/
Randal W. Beard received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1993, the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. Since 1996, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, where he is currently a professor. In 1997 and 1998, he was a Summer Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. In 2006-2007 he was a research associate at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, FL.
His primary research focus is autonomous control of micro unmanned air vehicles and multiple vehicle coordination and control. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a senior member of AIAA, and is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine and for the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. In 1998 and 2004 he was voted the outstanding teacher in the BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department by graduating seniors, and in 2002 he received the Outstanding Professor award from the BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In 2004 he received the Young Scholar award,  in 2006 he received the Technology Transfer award, and in 2009 he received the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts award, all from Brigham Young University.

Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: youcef@mit.edu
Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi is with the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which he joined in 1985. Professor Youcef-Toumi earned his advanced degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and his undergraduate Mechanical Engineering degree is from the University of Cincinnati. Professor Youcef-Toumi's research has focused primarily on design and control theory and its applications to dynamic systems. Throughout his research career he has strived to maintain a balance between theoretical aspects and practical applications. Professor Youcef-Toumi has served as a consultant for several companies including the EDO Corporation, Varian Radiation Division, Axiam Corporation, AT&T Bell Laboratories, The Gillette Company, Daewoo Corporation and TEKES, the Technology Development Center of Finland. Professor Youcef-Toumi teaches courses in the fields of dynamic systems, modelling, simulation and controls, robotics, mechatronics and precision machine design, analysis and controls. He has supervised a vast range of graduate, post graduate, doctoral and post doctoral activities. In 1987 he was selected as a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and in the following year became one of three recipients of Carl Richard Soderberg Career Development Chairs given by MIT's School of Engineering. He has also served on several professional committees of the National Science Foundation. He is the author of over 80 publications, has served as editor on several symposia proceedings and has been an invited lecturer at over 60 seminars at companies and universities throughout the world.

Professor Toshio Fukuda
Nagoya University, Japan
http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/staff/fukuda-e.html

graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1971 and received a Master of Engineering degree and the Doctor of Engineering degree both from the University of Tokyo, in 1973 and 1977, respectively. At present, he is a professor in the Department of Micro System Engineering and Department of Mechano-Informatics
and Systems, Nagoya University, Japan. He is mainly engaged in the research fields of intelligent robotic systems, self-organizing systems, micro robotics, robotic systems under hostile environments, bio-robotic systems, neuromorphic intelligent control, fuzzy control, control of mechanical systems and technical diagnosis.

He was the vice president of IEEE’s Industrial Electronics Society (1990- ). He is the
member of the administrative committees in IEEE’s Robotics and Automation Society
and IEEE’s Industrial Electronics Society. He was the publication chairman (1991–
1992) and the secretary of IEEE’s Neural Network Council (1992–1993). He was
chairman of the Division of Robotics and Mechatronics of Japan Society of
Mechanical Engineering (JSME), chairman of the Technical Committee of Robotics
in Society of Instrument and Control Engineer (SICE) and chairman of many other
technical committees. He was the president of the IEEE Robotics and Automation
Society (1998–1999). He was elected as director of the IEEE Division X, Systems and
Control. He was the founding general chairman of the IEEE International Workshop
on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) held in Tokyo (1988) and Program
Chairman of IJCNN '91-Singapore (November 1991).He was the general chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (May 1995), the program co-chairman of the Fuzz-IEEE
Conference (March 1995), the general chairman of the IEEE International Conference
on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'96, May 1996), and a steering member of many
other international conferences. He was the general chairman of Second Conference
of Virtual Reality Society of Japan (September 1997). He was the general chairman of
the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation-
2000 (IECON-2000, October 2000). Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of the Journal
of Micromechatronics (2000- ), Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence
(JACI) and IEEE Nanotechnology Council President (2002-). He was editor-in-chief
of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2000-2002).
He has received many awards, such as the Contribution Award from the Robotics and
Mechatronics Division of JSME (1995); Best Paper Award of ICEC'96 and Best
Paper Award of IECON'96; City of Grenoble Medal (1997); IEEE Eugene
Mittelmann Achievement Award (1997); Banki Donat Medal from Polytechnic
University of Budapest, Hungary (1997); Medal from City of Sartillo, Mexico (1998);