Announcing New RAS Senior Members C ongratulations to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society members recently elevated to Senior Member by t h e I E E E Ad m i s s i on a n d Advancement (A&A) Senior Member Review Panel. Senior Member is the highest grade for which IEEE Members may apply. The A&A Review Panel meets eight to ten times annually to review applications and/ or nominations for election or elevation to the Senior Member (SM) or Life Senior Member (LSM) grade. IEEE Members can self-nominate or be nominated for the Senior Member level. 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. 19 March 2016 ● Jose Maria Azorin Spain Section Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche ● Shashank Bandari Bangalore Section Indian Institute of Science ● Aaron Boyce Oregon Section Compound Photonics ● Mark Campbell Ithaca Section Cornell University Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2016.2588059 Date of publication: 13 September 2016 124 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * ● ● ● ● Robert Gregg Dallas Section University of Texas Seungkeun Kim Daejeon Section Korea Institute of Science and Technology Prakash Meena Rajasthan Subsection Government Engineering College Chenguang Yang United Kingdom and Ireland Section Swansea University. 23 April 2016 Ali A. Abed Oman Section University of Basra ● Ahmed Burhan Iraq Section Siemens ● Chee Kong Chui Singapore Section National University of Singapore ● Antonio Franchi France Section Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ● Vijay Kumar Gupta Madhya Pradesh Subsection Mandsaur University ● William Hurley Central Texas Section University of Texas ● Zakarya Hussain Zyada Malaysia Section Universiti Teknologi Mara ● David Kirkwood Northern Virginia Section Booz Allen Hamilton ● Manoj Koul Bangalore Section Texas Instruments ● Arumugam Manoharan Madras Section Scientific Research ● Jeffrey Mcharg Boston Section Massachusetts Institute of Technology ● ● ● ● ● ● september 2016 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Sang-Rok Oh Seoul Section Korea Institute of Science and Technology Michael Patten Santa Clara Valley Section Aixtron SE Susanne Proudlove Eastern North Carolina Section North Carolina Department of Information Technology Antonio F.M. Ribeiro Portugal Section Automation Solutions and Robotics Eun Ryu Seoul Section Gachon University Jayathu Samarawickrama Sri Lanka Section University of Moratuwa Krishna Kant Singh Delhi Section Dronacharya College of Engineering Marco Trincavelli Sweden Section Mobile Robotics and Olfaction Lab Toshiaki Tsuji Tokyo Section Saitama University Ramachandraiah Uppu Madras Section Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science Yebin Wang Boston Section Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Shyba Zaheer Kochi Subsection TKM College of Engineering Yuxin Zhao Harbin Section Harbin Engineering University. 21 May 2016 Syed Saad Ali Malaysia Section Universiti Teknologi Petronas ●