General Chair Jingang Yi Rutgers Univ., USA General Co-Chair Xiang Chen Univ. of Windsor, Canada General Co-Chair Kiyoshi Ohishi Nagaoka Univ. of Tech., Japan General Co-Chair Tao Liu Zhejiang Univ., China General Co-Chair Heike Vallery TU Delft, Netherlands Program Chair Xiaobo Tan Michigan State Univ., USA Program Co-Chair Seiichiro Katsura Keio Univ., Japan Program Co-Chair Georg Schitter Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria Finance Chair Kenn Oldham Univ. of Michigan, USA Workshop Chair Yang Shi Univ. of Victoria, Canada Invited Sessions Chair Taehyun Shim Univ. Mich – Dearborn, USA Publicity Chair & Website Xu Chen Univ. of Washington, USA Publication Chair Garrett Clayton Villanova Univ., USA Awards Chair Gursel Alici Univ. of Wollongong, Australia Registration Chair Se Young (Pablo) Yoon Univ. of New Hampshire, USA Conference Editorial Board Chair Hiroshi Fujimoto Univ. of Tokyo, Japan RAS Liaison Officer Shigeki Sugano Waseda Univ., Japan IES Liaison Officer Hideki Hashimoto Chuo Univ., Japan DSCD Liaison Officer Kok-Meng Lee Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA Student Activities Co-Chair Hao Liu Zhejiang University, China Student Activities Co-Chair Xi Gu Rutgers Univ., USA Student Activities Co-Chair Yan Wan Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Industry Committee Co-Chair Biao Zhang ABB Inc., USA Industry Committee Co-Chair Yan Gu Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Local Arrangement Co-Chair Yingzi Lin Northeastern Univ., USA Local Arrangement Co-Chair Hao Su City Univ. of New York, USA