Committees                  HUMASCEND-2012 Conference ORGANIZED BY: Technical Univ. of Iasi, Romania Univ. of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania AT-EQUAL, Romania REMEDIS, Romania ADEVO, USA HOSTED BY:    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, ’Gh. Asachi’ Technical University of Iasi, Romania GENERAL CHAIR Adrian Stoica, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA PROGRAM CHAIR Kenji Suzuki, University of Tsukuba, Japan PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy Mihaela Ulieru, University of New Brunswick, Canada LOCAL CHAIR Ioan Doroftei, Technical Univ. of Iasi, Romania ADVISORY COMMITTEE Edward Tunstel, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins U., USA Adrian Lobontiu, Henri-Mondor Hospital, France Stan Smits, ICTnovation, Netherlands Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba, Japan Horia Nicolai Teodorescu, TU Iasi, Romania PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Adriana Tapus, ENSTA, France PUBLICITY CHAIR Anna Gruebler, University of Tsukuba, Japan FINANCE CHAIR Edward Mihailescu, Technical Univ. of Iasi, Romania PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended and confirmed) Rachid Alami, LAAS-Toulouse, France Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK Chris Assad, California Institute of Technology, USA Paul Benjamin, Pace University, USA Frank Barry, Galway University, Ireland Karsten Berns, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Paul Botez, „Gr. T. Popa” Univ of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania Mohamed Chetouani, ISIR-UPMC, France Geert De Cubber, Royal Military Academy, Belgium Daniel David, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania Anna Esposito, Second University of Naples, Italy Dean Edwards, University of Idaho, USA Mustafa Supfi Erden, ENSTA, France Paolo Fiorini, Universita' di Verona, Italy Dario Floreano, EPFL, Switzerland Saman Kumara Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Gareth Howells, The University of Kent, UK Daniel Howard, United Kingdom Yumi Iwashita, Kyushu University, Japan Didier Keymeulen, California Institute of Technology, USA Terry Huntsberger, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea Dirk Lefeber, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Klaus D McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK Kaveh Mashayekhi, Hungary Brendon Noble, Edinburgh University, U.K. Ionut Olaru, CNRS -LIRMM, France Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Ion Poeata, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania Hari Sharma, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden Luminita Simion, University Hospital Saint Spiridon Iasi, Romania Paul Dan Sirbu, „Gr. T. Popa” Univ of Med. & Pharm., Iasi, Romania Vlad P. Shmerko, University of Calgary, Canada Dan Stoianovici, John Hopkins University, USA Adriana Tapus, U. Southern California Eugen Tarcoveanu, „Gr. T. Popa” Univ of Med. &Pharm., Iasi, Romania Rocky Tuan, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, Cyborgs and Enhancing Devices HUMASCEND                       Part of the Advanced Technologies for              Enhanced Quality of Life                        AT-EQUAL                Conference Series