The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congratulates Recently Elevated IEEE Senior Members C ongratulations to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society members recently elevated to Senior Member status by the IEEE Admission and Ad- vancement Senior Member Review Panel. 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 of their years in professional practice. Nominees for IEEE Fellow must hold the grade of Senior Member or Life Senior Member to qualify for eleva- tion to Fellow status. The names and affiliations of the new Senior Members are as follows: ● Ruhizan Liza Ahmad Shauri Universiti Teknologi MARA IEEE Malaysia Section ● Mohammad Al-Abed Hashemite University IEEE Jordan Section ● Essa Al-Suwaidi IEEE United Arab Emirates Section ● Jacopo Aleotti University of Parma IEEE Italy Section ● Rafael Aroca Universidade Federal de São Carlos IEEE South Brazil Section ● Shaoping Bai Aalborg University IEEE Denmark Section ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2018.2873037 Date of publication: 12 December 2018 Richard Bearee École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers IEEE France Section Nicola Bellotto University of Lincoln IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section Janos Botzheim Budapest University of Technology and Economics IEEE Hungary Section Darwin Caldwell The University of Sheffield IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section Craig Carignan University of Maryland IEEE Washington Section Marco Carricato Università di Bologna IEEE Italy Section Han-Lim Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology IEEE Daejeon Section Eftychios Christoforou University of Cyprus IEEE Cyprus Section Matthew Clavelli Northwestern University IEEE Northwest Subsection Ashwin Dani University of Connecticut IEEE Connecticut Section Reinaldo de Bernardi University of São Paulo IEEE South Brazil Section Domenico Formica Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma IEEE Italy Section Paolo Frasca The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) IEEE France Section ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Luigi Freda Inglobe Technologies IEEE Italy Section Ibrahim Fahad Jasim Ghalyan New York University IEEE Benelux Section Olaf Haenssler University of Oldenburg IEEE Germany Section Tamas Haidegger Óbuda University IEEE Hungary Section Lafifa Jamal University of Dhaka IEEE Bangladesh Section Gene Kern Oxford Solutions, Inc. IEEE Pittsburgh Section Lindsay Kleeman Monash University IEEE Victorian Section Katherine Kuchenbecker Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems IEEE Germany Section Alessandro Liani IEEE Italy Section Guangcan Liu Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology IEEE Nanjing Section Weifeng Liu Norwegian University of Science and Technology IEEE Norway Section Henry Medeiros Marquette University IEEE Milwaukee Section Juan Moreno Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council IEEE Spain Section Charles Phiri University of Portsmouth IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section december 2018 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * 127