Organizing Committee

General Chairs


  • Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK, and Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland

Program Chairs


  • Bjoern Schuller, Technical University Munich, Germany
  • Marc Smith, Social Media Research Foundation, USA

Workshop Chairs


  • Fabio Pianesi, FBK, Italy
  • Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK

Doctoral Consortium Chairs


  • Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo!, USA

Local Chair


  • Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands

International Advisory Board


  • Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, USA
  • Irfan Essa, George Institute of Technology, USA
  • David Lazer, Northeastern/Harvard University, USA
  • Dongman Lee, KAIST, Korea
  • Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, USA
  • Tom Malone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Kenji Mase, Nagoya University, Japan
  • Cliff Nass, Stanford University, USA
  • Sandy Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Whitman Richards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany
  • Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University, USA
  • Wenjun Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, USA

Financial Chair


  • Justin Zhan, North Carolina A&T State University, USA

System Administrators


  • Luis Cabrera, Academy of Science and Engineering
  • William Nick, Academy of Science and Engineering
  • Emmanuel Arzate, Academy of Science and Engineering

Steering Chair


  • Justin Zhan, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
  • Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada