International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Robotics ICIAR 2010

The WCECS Program Committee

As the WCECS 2010 is organized by the International Association of Engineers and the Engineering Letters, some of the editorial board members of the Engineering Letters and the IAENG journals and the committee members of IAENG Societies are taking part in the WCECS International Program Committee.

WCECS Congress Co-chairs

Prof. Craig Douglas ( WCECS Keynote Speaker & Co-chair) Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Wyoming Visiting Professor, Computer Science Department, Yale University, USA
Prof. Warren S. Grundfest, Fellow, AIMBE, SPIE (WCECS co-chair) Co-Chair, Biomedical Engineering IDP Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Surgery The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles, USA Former Chair, SPIE Health Care Engineering & Technology Policy Former Vice Chair, Health Care Engineering Policy Committee, IEEE
Prof. Jon Burgstone (ICIMT honorary co-chair) Faculty Chair Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology College of Engineering University of California, Berkeley, USA Board Member of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Prof. Benjamin Friedlander, FIEEE (ICCST honorary co-chair) Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA The IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) Former Vice Chairman of the Bay Area Chapter of the Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society Former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control
Prof. Burghard B. Rieger (ICMLDA honorary co-chair) Professor of Computational Linguistics Former Dean (1999-2001) of Faculty of Languages and Literature Former Head of Department of Linguistic Computing, University of Trier, Germany President (1989-93) of the German Society for Linguistic Computing (GLDV) Vice-President (1990-94) of the International Society for Terminoly and Knowledge Engineering (GTW)
Prof. Lei Xu (ICSCA honorary co-chair) IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow, Member of European Academy of Sciences, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

ICIAR Conference Committee:

Dr. William B. Agassounon (PhD Caltech)
Principle Engineer, Autonomy and Networking group part of the Advanced Solutions Center,
Textron Defense Systems, Advanced Solutions Center, USA

Dr. Syed Sahal Nazli Alhady
Lecturer, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Prof. Jian S Dai (FIMechE; co-chair)
Chair Professor of Mechanisms and Robotics, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Division of Engineering, King's College London, UK

Prof. Richard J. Duro (co-chair)
Professor and Head of the Integrated Group for Engineering, Research, University of Corunna, Spain

Prof. Ming Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, California State University, Fresno, USA

Dr. Raj Madhavan
Research scientist, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory;
Guest researcher, Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA ;
Founding Chair of the IEEE Washington Section Robotics & Automation Society Chapter

Prof. Takafumi Matsumaru
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering & Graduate School of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Japan

Prof. Rezia Molfino
Professor, PMARlab, Department of Mechanics and Machines Design, University of Genova, Italy;
President of Italian Robotics Association

Dr. Tariq Shehab
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, California State University, Long Beach, USA

Dr. Cagatay Soyer (co-chair)
Principal Scientist, NATO C3 Agency, The Hague, Command and Control Systems Division, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Resource Center, Netherlands

Dr. Chinpei Tang
Researcher, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Prof. Jing Wang
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, School of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, USA

Prof. Miguel Ángel Sotelo Vázquez
Associate Professor, Department of Electronics; Vice-dean. High Technical School, University of Alcalá, Spain

Prof. Li Zhao
Professor, Radio Department, School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China

Dr. Matteo Zoppi
Senior Researcher, PMARlab, Department of Mechanics and Machines Design, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

WCECS Program Committee & Conferences Co-Chairs


	Prof. Georges Abdul-Nour	University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, Canada
	Prof. B.D. Aggarwala	University of Calgary, Canada
	Dr. Syed Sahal Nazi Alhady	Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
	Prof. Mahyar A. Amouzegar	California State University, Long Beach, USA
	Prof. Metin Basarir	Sakarya University, Turkey
	Prof. Andrzej Bieszczad	California State University Channel Islands, USA
	Dr. Faouzi Bouslama	Universite Laval, Canada
	Prof. YoungJoon Byun	California State University, Monterey Bay, USA
	Prof. Pani Chakrapani	University of Redlands, USA
	Prof. Ben-Jye Chang	Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
	Prof. John H. Chang	California State University San Marcos, USA
	Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyay	California State University, Northridge, USA
	Dr. Dechang Chen	Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA
	Dr. Shoupu Chen	Medical Science and Technology Center of the Eastman Kodak Company, USA
	Prof. Shu-Ching Chen	Florida International University, USA
	Prof. Baoyong Chi	Tsinghua University, China; Stanford University, USA
	Prof. Jhih-Wei Chu	University of California, Berkeley, USA
	Prof. Richard Chung	San Jose State University, USA
	Dr. Francesca Collins	Monash University, Australia
	Prof. Jian S Dai	King's College London, UK
	Prof. Weizhong Dai	Louisiana Tech University, USA
	Prof. Yang Dai	University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	Prof. Milind Dawande	University of Texas, Dallas, USA
	Prof. Suash Deb	National Institute of Science & Technology, India
	Dr. Pi-Sheng Deng	California State University, Stanislaus, USA
	Prof. Alexandre Dolgui	Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
	Prof. Xu Du	Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
	Prof. Richard J. Duro	University of Corunna, Spain
	Prof. Burkhard Englert	California State University, Long Beach, USA
	Prof. Wenying Feng	Trent University, Canada
	Prof. Marilyn Ford	Griffith University, Australia
	Prof. Sayantani Ghosh	University of California, Merced, USA
	Prof. Dion Hoe-Lian Goh	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Prof. Ajay Gopinathan	University of California, Merced, USA
	Prof. Valery Gordon	National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus
	Prof. Irene Yu-Hua Gu	Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
	Prof. Rocio Guillen	California State University, San Marcos, USA
	Prof. Huiping Guo	California State University at Los Angeles, USA
	Dr. Nikolai Guschinsky	Byelorussian National Academy of Sciences, Belarus
	Dr. Ahmad R. Hadaegh	California State University San Marcos, USA
	Prof. Lili He	San Jose State University, USA
	Prof. Min He	California State University Long Beach, USA
	Prof. Hilary Holz	California State University, East Bay, USA
	Prof. Jiun-Long Huang	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
	Prof. Qing Jiang	University of California, Riverside, USA
	Prof. Yasuo Kadono	Shibaura Institute of Technology & Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
	Prof. Hamid Kavianian	California State University, Long Beach, USA
	Prof. Karim Kemih	Mentoury University, Algeria
	Prof. Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi	University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
	Prof. Boris Kogan	University of California, Los Angeles, USA
	Prof. Petr Krysl	University of California, San Diego, USA
	Prof. Cecilia Sik Lanyi	University of Pannonia, Hungary
	Prof. Igor Lemberski	Baltic International Academy, Latvia
	Prof. Robert Levinson	University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
	Prof. Joseph Lewis	San Diego State University, USA
	Prof. Ching-Cheng Lee	Olivet University & California State University at East Bay, USA
	Prof. Layuan Li	Wuhan University of Technology, China
	Prof. Ming Li	California State University, Fresno, USA
	Prof. Clement Luk	California State University, Chico, USA
	Dr. Alessandra Lumini	University of Bologna, Italy
	Dr. Raj Madhavan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory & National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
	Prof. Prabhat K. Mahanti	University of New Brunswick, Canada
	Prof. Tulin Mangir	California State University, Long Beach, USA
	Prof. Agostino Marengo	University of Study of Bari, Italy
	Prof. David Luis la Red Martinez	Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina
	Prof. Takafumi Matsumaru	Shizuoka University, Japan
	Prof. Nader F. Mir	San Jose State University, USA
	Prof. Issam Moghrabi	Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
	Prof. Rezia Molfino	University of Genova, Italy
	Prof. Robert Henry Morelos-Zaragoza	San Jose State University, USA
	Prof. Mircea Gh. Munteanu	Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy
	Prof. Tang-Hung Nguyen	California State University, Long Beach, USA
	Dr. Ahmed EL Oualkadi	Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
	Dr. Selma Ayse Ozalp	Uludag University, Turkey
	Prof. Soo-Gil Park	Chungbuk National University, South Korea
	Prof. Thierry Parra	LAAS-CNRS and Universite Paul Sabatier, France
	Prof. Panagiotis Petratos	California State University, Stanislaus, USA
	Prof. Clara Pizzuti	Italian National Research Council (CNR) & University of Calabria, Italy
	Dr. Niladri Bihari Puhan	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Prof. Xiaojun Qi	Utah State University, USA
	Prof. Helen Ryaciotaki-Boussalis	California State University, Los Angeles, USA
	Prof. Ronald F. Rogers	San Jose State University, USA
	Prof. Jishou Ruan	Nankai University, China
	Dr. Aminghasem Safarian	Broadcom Corporation, USA
	Prof. Mahasweta Sarkar	San Diego State University, USA
	Prof. Chi Shen	Kentucky State University, USA
	Prof. Timothy K. Shih	Tamkang University, Taiwan
	Prof. Ahmed M. Soliman	Cairo University, Egypt
	Dr. Hideyuki Sotobayashi	NICT & Tohoku University, Japan; MIT, USA
	Prof. Alexander V. Spirov	State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
	Prof. Ken Surendran	Southeast Missouri State University, USA
	Prof. Robbie De Sutter	University College West Flanders - Association Ghent University, Belgium
	Prof. Lixin Tao	Pace University, USA
	Prof. Fleur T. Tehrani	California State University, Fullerton, USA
	Dr. Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle	Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Mexico
	Dr. Niklas Troedsson	UMC-USA, USA
	Prof. Kambiz Vafai	University of California, Riverside, USA
	Prof. Ventzeslav Valev	Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Saint Louis University, USA
	Prof. Miguel Ángel Sotelo Vázquez	University of Alcalá, Spain
	Prof. Valentine Vullev	University of California, Riverside, USA
	Prof. Hung-Yu Wang	National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
	Prof. Jing Wang	Bethune-Cookman University, USA
	Prof. Yun Wang	University of California, Irvine, USA
	Dr. Gang Wu	Microsoft, USA
	Prof. Jiunn-Lin Wu	National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
	Prof. Gi-Chul Yang	Mokpo National University, South Korea
	Prof. Huazhong Yang	Tsinghua University, China
	Dr. Ali Riza Yildiz	University of Michigan, USA
	Dr. Shui Yu	Deakin University, Australia
	Prof. Zhongfei Mark Zhang	Binghamton University, USA
	Prof. Li Zhao	Southeast University, China
	Dr. Matteo Zoppi	University of Genova, USA
	Prof. Dan Zhu	Iowa State University, USA
	Prof. Qiang Zhu	University of California, San Diego, USA
	Prof. Cairong Zou	Foshan University, China