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The Team
Behind iSpaRo

iSpaRo 2025 Conference Board
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General Chair

Prof. Genya Ishigami

Keio University, Japan

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General Co-Chair

Prof. Miguel Olivares-Mendez

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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General Co-Chair

Dr.-Ing. Armin Wedler

DLR, Germany

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Publication and Award Co-Chair

Prof. Yang Gao

King's College London, UK

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Publication and Award Co-Chair

Dr. Amir Rahmani

NASA JPL, USA

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General Secretary

Dr. Kentaro Uno

Tohoku University, Japan

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    Program Chair

    Prof. Kenji Nagaoka

    Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Japan

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    Program Co-Chair(workshop)

    Dr. Shreya Santra

    Tohoku University, Japan

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    Program Co-Chair (workshop)

    Dr. Máximo A. Roa

    DLR, Germany

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    Sponsorship and Exhibition Chair

    Dr. Akiko Otsuka

    JAXA, Japan

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      Sponsorship and Exhibition Chair

      Dr. Seiko Piotr Yamaguchi

      JAXA, Japan

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        Website Chair

        Dr. Kosuke Sakamoto

        Chuo University, Japan

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        Advisory board

        Prof. Kazuya Yoshida

        Tohoku Univarsity, Japan

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        Advisory board

        Prof. Takashi Kubota

        Meiji University, Japan

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          Advisory board

          Prof. Hiroshi Ueno

          JAXA, Japan

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            Student Activity Chair

            Ms. Marie-Elisabeth Makohl

            Technical University of Munich, Germany

              International Program Committee members

              • Prof. Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Univ. of Tech. Sydney, Australia

              • Prof. Thierry Peynot, Queensland Univ. of Tech., Australia

              • Prof. Tat-Jun Chin, The Univ. of Adelaide, Australia

              • Prof. Kenji Nagaoka, Kyushu Inst. Tech., Japan

              • Prof. Takao Maeda, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture, Japan

              • Prof. Abhishek Cauligi, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA

              • Prof. Krzysztof Skonieczny, Concordia Univ., USA

              • Prof. Zachary Manchester, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA

              • Prof. Jekan Thanga, Univ. of Arizona, USA

              • Prof. Richard Linares, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., USA

              • Prof. Carlos-Perez del Pulgar, Univ. of Malaga, Spain

              • Prof. Raj Thilak Rajan, Delft Univ. Tech., Netherlands

              • Prof. Yasmin Tauqeer Ansari, Italian Instit. Tech., Italia

              • Dr. Shreya Santra, Tohoku Univ., Japan

              • Dr. Masahiro Ono, NASA/JPL, USA

              • Dr. Máximo A. Roa, DLR, Germany

              • Dr. Hendrik Kolvenbach, ETH, Switzerland

              • Dr. David Rodríguez-Martínez, Univ. of Malaga, Spain

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