President Peter Stone University of Texas, Austin, USA Founding Trustees Minoru Asada Osaka University, Japan Hiroaki Kitano Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan Manuela M. Veloso Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Past President Daniel Polani University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK Vice Presidents Luca Iocchi Sapienza University of Rome, Italy A. Fernando Ribeiro Universidade do Minho, Portugal Oskar von Stryk Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Rong Xiong Zhejiang University, China Board of Trustees Xiaoping Chen University of Science and Technology of China, China Amy Eguchi University of California, San Diego, USA Gerard Elias St. Francis Xavier College, Australia Pedro Lima Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Itsuki Noda National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Oliver Obst Western Sydney University, Australia Claude Sammut University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Gerald Steinbauer Graz University of Technology, Austria Komei Sugiura National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Jackrit Suthakorn Mahidol University, Thailand Flavio Tonidandel Centro Universitario FEI, Brazil Ubbo Visser University of Miami, USA Changjiu Zhou Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore Treasurers Minoru Asada Osaka University, Japan Tucker Balch Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA