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

Frank Dellaert
Georgia Tech

Professor

Tony G. Chen
Georgia Tech

Assistant Professor

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

Daniel Seita
USC

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

Min Young Kim
Kyungpook National University

Professor

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

Indranil Saha
IIT-KANPUR

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

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

Emil Stubbe Kolvig-Raun
Universal Robots

Tech Lead in AI Enablement

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.

Aditya Prakash
Georgia Tech

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Frederik Højer Borregaard
AU

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Hanna Zhang
Northeastern

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Jaxson Hill
USC

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Jesse Curran
UC San Diego

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Jisung Park
KNU

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Julian Würch
DTU

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Jungho Lee
SNU

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Karim Elmaaroufi
UC Berkeley

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Martin Peticco
MIT

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Michael Fantinato
ITU

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Pierre Emil Mortensen
AAU

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Rajayogeshwar Govindaraju
IIT Kanpur

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Seunggyeom Jung
KAIST

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Simone Ingvild Lebech
SDU

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Till Laube
KIT

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Timo Weiss
TUM

I participated in the summer school in 2026.

Vaishnavi Thumuganti
Stanford

I participated in the summer school in 2026.