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Governance

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Steering Committee

Steering Committee

Kasper Støy
IT University of
Copenhagen

Professor

Co-director: Robotics, Evolution, and Art Lab (REAL)

Xuping Zhang
Aarhus
University

Associate Professor

Section Head: Mechatronics and Dynamics, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering

Strahinja Dosen
Aalborg
University

Professor

Head of unit: Neurorehab Systems, Department of Health Science and Technology

Lazaros Nalpantidis
Technical University
of Denmark

Professor

Head of Group: Automation & Control, Department of Electrical & Photonics Engineering

Henrik Gordon Petersen
University of
Southern Denmark

Professor

Head of unit: SDU Robotics

Advisory Board

Henrik Christensen
UC San Diego

Professor

Director: Contextual Robotics Institute

Alexander König
Technical University of Munich

Chair for Robotics and System Intelligence

Jee-Hwan Ryu
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Professor

Chair: Interactive Robotic systems Laboratory

Frank Park
Seoul National University

Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Heather Culbertson
USC

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Satyandra K. Gupta
USC

Professor: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Director: USC Viterbi Center for Advanced Manufacturing

Ken Goldberg
UC Berkeley

Professor

William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering

Rudolf Lioutikov
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Tenure-Track Professor for Machine Learning & Robotics (KIT)
Emmy Noether Research Group Leader
The head of the Intuitive Robots Lab

Tamim Asfour
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Professor
Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics

Director: High Performance Humanoid Technologies

Hanumant Singh
Northeastern University

Professor

Program co-Director: Institute of Experiential Robotics

Kris L. Dorsey
Northeastern University Boston

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences

Abandopa Bandyopadhyay
IIT Kanpur

Professor

Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering

Julie A Shah
MIT

Professor

Department: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

John Leonard
MIT

Professor, Mechanical and Ocean Engineering

Kamal Youcef-Toumi
MIT

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Daehyung Park
KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Professor

Computer Science Department

Sang Ho Yoon
KAIST

Associate Professor, HCI Tech Lab

Graduate School of Technology

Dong Seog Han
Kyungpook National University

Professor, Intelligent Signal Processing Lab

Dean, College of IT Engineering

Jinsoo Kim
SNU

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Adjunct Researcher, Automation and Systems Research Institute

Steve Cousins
Stanford University

Executive Director, Stanford Robotics Center

Soumya Ranjan Sahoo
IIT-Kanpur

Associate Professor

Madeline Smith
MIT Denmark

Managing Director

MIT-Denmark

Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu
University of Southern Denmark

Professor

Head of SDU Robotics

Head of Research Centre of Clinical Robotics

Frank Dellaert
Georgia Tech

Professor

Industry Board

Milad Jami
Novo Nordisk

Head of PS Robotics Innovation Lab

John Christiansen
The LEGO Group

Head of R&D Automation

Martin Høgsbjerg
Danfoss

Head of Global SC Technology

Morten Boris Højgaard
Universal Robots

Head of Incubation & Partnerships

Julius Born
LINAK

Production Development Manager

Christian Schlette
University of Southern Denmark

Professor

Head of Unit: SDU Center for Large Structure Production (LSP)

Ambassadors

Ask us anything about our experience with the Elite Summer School in Robotics and Entrepreneurship.

Aarya Sumuk
Stanford

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Adersh Maruvattu
IIT Kanpur

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Alejandro Lorite Mora
ITU

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Ali Batur Karakullukcu
TUM

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Ausra Voveryte
AU

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Christian Kej
SDU

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Daniel Bösch
KIT

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Jayanti Lahoti
UC San Diego

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Jongseok Nam
KAIST

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Kathy Min
UC Berkeley

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Kristina Andreyeva
USC

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Lucía Ronda
DTU

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Minchang Song
SNU

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Pascal Spino
MIT

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Raj Harshit Srirangam
Northeastern

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Shinjae Kang
KNU

I participated in the summer school in 2025.

Vlad Isuf
AAU

I participated in the summer school in 2025.