Committees

People who make the AAAC a great society

Management Board

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Marwa Mahmoud

President


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Joost Broekens

Secretary


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Mathieu Chollet

Treasurer


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Desmond Ong

Member


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Shiro Kumano

Member


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Mohammad Soleymani

Member




Conference Committee

Involved in handling and sending out bids, assessing the bids, setting up standard documents and guidelines, making sure the conferences are being organized in a way AAAC sees fit (e.g. review quality, process, etc...), dealing with opportunities for AAAC preconference and AAAC sponsored workshops at other conferences.

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Khiet Truong

Memeber


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Shaun Canavan

Member


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Shiro Kumano

Member


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Marwa Mahmoud

Member




Education and early career

This committee is in charge of arranging, promoting and deciding on e.g. online lecture series, special events for students, summer schools, arranging the doctoral consortium at ACII.

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Lola Canamero

Chair


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Theodoros Kostoulas

Member


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Erik Campano

Member


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Hanan Salam

Member




Awards and fellows

The awards and fellow committee is in charge of the selection process for the AAAC fellow, AAAC PhD award, Best paper award at ACII, and the coordination with best of TAC journal paper.

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Gary McKeown

Chair


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Jon Gratch

Member


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Bjorn Schuller

Member


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Georgios Yannakakis

Member




Outreach

The outreach committee deals with mailing lists, website updates, media coverage around conferences, events etc...,. It keeps the social media channels up to date, and talks to companies to help out finding sponsors for ACII. Anything related to making AAAC and affective computing known to the outside world and attracting new people to the society is the responsibility of the outreach committee.

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Mohammad Soleymani

Chair


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Brandon Booth

Member


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Monica Perusquia-Hernandez

Member


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Joel Rivas

Member