Keynote Speaker

Prof. Beom Hee Lee (IEEE & ICROS Fellow)
Seoul National University, South Korea

Professor Beom Hee Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1978 and 1980, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA in 1985. From 1985 to 1987, he was with the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, as an Assistant Professor. He joined Seoul National University (SNU) in 1987, where he is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab at SNU. In 2001, he was the Program Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Seoul, Korea. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and he was in charge of IEEE Robotics and Automation Korea Chapter as the chairman until 2015. He was the President of the Automation and Systems Research Institute (ASRI) in SNU during 2004-2006, and the Dean of Information Technology in SNU. He has served the Korea Robotics Society (KROS) as the president in 2009. He was also in charge of the Board of Directors of the Korea Institute of Patent Information (KIPI) as the chairman. He has published over 670 technical journal and conference papers mainly in the field of Robotics and Automation. His current interest includes multi-robot systems and applications, Multi-robot collision avoidance, Multi-robot SLAM problems and Underwater robotics.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Toyomi Fujita
Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan

Toyomi Fujita received his Ph.D. in Robotics from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1997. From 1997 to 2001, he was a Research Associate at the Graduate School of Information Systems, the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. He joined, in 2001, the Neurology and Telerobotics Units, in the School of Optometry at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has been with the Department of Electronics and Intelligent Systems, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan. He is currently a Professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tohoku Institute of Technology. His research interests include robotics, robot vision, and human interface.