Welcome to the New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chapters C ongratulations and welcome to the following newly or- ganized IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Student Branch Chapters. ● ● ● Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2016.2614405 Date of publication: 12 December 2016 Brazil * The Federal Center for Technolog- ical Education of Rio de Janeiro ● Colombia * The Universidad Del Norte Robotics and Automation Society Cyprus * The Middle East Technical Uni- versity, Northern Cyprus Campus ● India * The Jeppiaar Institute of Technology * The Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Technology for Women * Netaji Subhash Engineering College * Poornima University-Jaipur Mexico * Instituto Tecnologico De Guzman. Announcing the New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Senior Members C ongratulations to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society members recently elevated to Senior Member status by the IEEE Admission and Advancement (A&A) Senior Member Review Panel. Senior Member is the highest grade for which IEEE Members can apply. The A&A Review Panel meets eight to ten times annually to review applications and/or nominations for election or for elevation to the Senior Member or Life Senior Member grade. IEEE Members can self-nominate or be nominated for the Senior Member grade. To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must ● be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields ● have experience reflecting profes- sional maturity ● have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees) ● show significant performance over a period of at least five years during their professional practice. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2016.2614409 Date of publication: 12 December 2016 192 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * 25 June 2016 Jawaid Daudpoto Mehran University of Engineering and Technology ● Arturo De La Escalera Universidad Carlos, III, de Madrid ● Joshua Gordon National Institute of Standards and Technology ● John Hinckley Hinckley Research Corporation ● Koh Hosoda Osaka University ● Weiwei Huang Institute for Infocomm Research ● Benjamin Huebschman ARA ● Kanghyun Jo University of Ulsan ● Jorge Lobo Coimbra University ● Thrishantha P Nanayakkara King's College London ● Patrick Pilarski University of Alberta ● Weiwei Shang University of Science and Technology of China ● Siddhartha Srinivasa Carnegie Mellon University ● ● december 2016 Jorge Tejada-Polo Universidad de San Martín de Porres. 23 July 2016 Foudil Abdessemed Al Jouf University ● Yingxiang Liu Harbin Institute of Technology ● Ana Luisa Trejos Western University ● Zheng Wang The University of Hong Kong. ● 10 September 2016 Seungmoon Choi Pohang University of Science and Technology ● Arne Norlander Swedish Armed Forces ● Anton Satria Prabuwono King Abdulaziz University ● Ani Ramachandran ● Sebastian Scherer Carnegie Mellon University ● Michael Stanley NXP Semiconductors ● Thomas Sugar Arizona State University ● Zeyang Xia Chinese Academy of Sciences. ●