Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs:
Péter Érdi, Kalamazoo College, USA and Wigner Inst., 
Zoltán Somogyvári, Wigner Inst., Hungary

Program Chairs:
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK
Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Program Co-Chairs:
Khan Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion Univ., USA
Dongbin Zhao, CAS, China

Plenary Chair
Richard Duro, University of A Coruña, Spain

Panels Chair:
Robert Kozma, University of Memphis, USA

Special Sessions Chair:
Danilo Mandic, Imperial College, UK

Tutorials Chair:
Simona Doboli, Hofstra University, USA

Workshops Chair:
Christina Jayne, Oxford Brookes Univ., UK

Competition Chair:
Hugo Jair Escalante Balderas, National Institute of Optical and Electronic Astrophysics, Mexico

Publications Chair:
Deliang Wang, Ohio State University, USA

Publicity Chair:
Hava Siegelmann, Univ. Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Sponsors and Exhibit Chair:
William Howell, Canada

Local Arrangements Chair:
George Kampis, ELTE, Hungary
András Telcs, Wigner Inst., Hungary

Web Reviews Chair:
Thomasz Cholewo, IEEE, USA

Asian Pacific Liaison:
Irwin King, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Canada Liaison:
Thomas Trappenberg, Dalhousie U. Canada

North Africa Liaison:
Jaouad Boumhidi, FS Fez, Morocco

Americas Liaison:
Marley Vellasco, Pontifícia University Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

India Liaison:
Mahua Bhattacharya, IIITM, India

Neuroscience Liaison:
Zoltan Nadasdy,   University of Texas at Austin, USA

Machine Learning Liaison:
Robi Poikar, Rowan University, USA

Robotics Liaison:
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth,UK

Industry Liaison:
Danil Prokhorov, Toyota, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chair:
Liwicki Marcus, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Local Coordinator:
Jennifer Csatlos, Wigner Inst, Hungary