Track Chairs

Rui P. Rocha - Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Rui P. Rocha is a tenured Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a senior researcher of the Institute of Systems and Robotics, both at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He earned his Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Porto in 2006. His research interests focus on developing multi-robot systems endowed with cooperative perception, decentralized coordination and resilient autonomy, targeting applications in service and assistive robotics, disaster response, environmental monitoring, industry, and logistics, for the benefit of humanity and sustainability. He has been involved in several EU funded R&D projects developed in consortium and national funded R&D projects, and has served as Principal Investigator in some of them involving swarm robotics for aquatic resources monitoring, urban search and rescue robotics, multi-robot building patrolling, and socially assistive robots. He has co-authored ca. 100 scientific publications indexed in Scopus. He maintains an active editorial role in top-tier robotics journals, conferences, and thematic tracks on Intelligent Robotics, serving as reviewer, editor, and organizer. His teaching portfolio spans a wide range of subjects in ECE, including autonomous and cognitive robotics, industrial automation, algorithms and data structures, software and systems engineering, electronics, and digital systems and microprocessors. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems. He co-founded the SAC IRMAS track and has served as chair or co-chair for all 13 editions.

Inmo Jang - Korea Aerospace University, Goyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Inmo Jang is s an Assistant Professor in the Department of Autonomous Vehicle Engineering at Korea Aerospace University, South Korea, where he serves as the Principal Investigator of the Intelligent Multi-robot Orchestration Lab (InMO Lab). His research focusses on multi-robot/agent systems, decentralised autonomous decision-making, control and navigation for robots, and human-multi-robot collaboration. Prior to his current academic position, he gained extensive industrial and research experience. He served as a Principal Robotics Research Engineer and Head of the EHS Automation Part at Samsung Electronics, where he led the development of robot/AI systems for semiconductor fabrication plants. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Robotics for Extreme Environments Group at the University of Manchester, participating in the UK EPSRC-funded RAIN (Robotics and AI in Nuclear) project, and spent time as a JAEA NEST Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in Autonomous Intelligent Multi-Robot/Agent Systems from Cranfield University, UK. He also holds a M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University. His professional background further includes engineering roles at Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology (KIAST).