Professor Roderich Gross

• General Chair: DARS 2016 (13th Int Symp on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems)
• Chair, IEEE CIS Task Force on Swarm Intelligence (2016-2017)
• Editor, IROS 2019 - 2015 (IEEE/RSJ Int Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
• Associate Editor: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (from 2015)
• Associate Editor: IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (from 2015)
• Associate Editor: Swarm Intelligence (from 2013)
• Associate Editor: ICRA 2020-2019, 2015 - 2012 (IEEE Int Conf on Robotics and Automation)
• Associate Editor: IROS, 2014 - 2012 (IEEE/RSJ Int Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
• Program Co-Chair: GECCO 2018 (Swarm Intelligence Track)
• Program Co-Chair: AAMAS 2016 (Robotics Track)
• Program Co-Chair: ANTS 2012 (8th Int Conf on Swarm Intelligence)
• Program Co-Chair: TAROS 2011 (12th Conf Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems)
• Publication Chair: ANTS 2010 (7th Int Conf on Swarm Intelligence)
• Best/Outstanding Associate Editors: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• Member of the Editorial Board: Frontiers in Robotics & AI
• Part Editor: Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence
• Guest Editor: Distributed Robotics special issue (Auton Robots, 2018)
• Guest Editor: Swarm Robotics special issue (Neural Comput & Appl, 2010)
• Guest Editor: TAROS 2011 special issue (Robot Auton Syst)
• Guest Editor: ANTS 2010 and ANTS 2012 special issues (Swarm Intell)
• Grant Reviewer for national funding bodies (EU, Canada, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Austria)
• Reviewer (e.g., Royal Soc Interface, IEEE Trans Robot, Int J Robot Res, IEEE Trans Evol Compt, PLoS ONE)
• SPC Member: AAMAS 2018
• PC Member: RSS 2020, NeurIPS 2020, IJCAI 2020, AAMAS 2020, GECCO 2020 

Invited talks (selected)

• "Advances in distributed robotics and Turing Learning", SSR, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2018)
• "Robots, swarms and Turing learning", Plenary talk at 27th ERNSI Workshop (European Research Network on System Identification), Cambridge, UK (2018)
• "Robots, swarms and Turing learning", Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Konstanz, Germany (2018)
• "Less is more? Defining your building blocks", Dagstuhl seminar on Algorithmic Foundations of Programmable Matter, Germany (2018)
• "Less is more? Controlling swarms and Turing learning", Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA) Workshop, UCL, UK (2018)
• "Less is more? Controlling swarms and Turing learning", Conference on Collective Robotics, International Centre for Theoretical Physics/UNESCO, Italy (2018) 
• "Less is more? New approaches for swarm control and inference", Janelia Conference on Distributed, Collective Computation in Biological and Artificial Systems, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA (2018)
• "Swarms - design, interaction and learning", University of Southampton, UK (2017)
• "Advances in massively distributed robotics and machine learning", ULB, Brussels, Belgium (2017)
• "Bandits, swarms, and Turing Learning", University of Bristol, UK (2017)
• "Less is more? New approaches for swarm control and inference", 2016 CCS Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2016)
• "Controlling swarms of robots without computation", JSPS EPSRC UK - Japan Workshop on Soft Robotics, University of Cambridge, UK (2016)
• "Swarm robotics", IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems, NUS, Singapore (2016)
• "Less is more? New approaches for swarm control and inference", University of Liverpool, UK (2016)
• "Less is more? New approaches for swarm control and inference", NIPS 2016 Workshop, Montreal, Canada (2015)
• "Swarm robotics: Minimalism, learning and evolution" - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2015)
• "Controlling robot swarms - from theory to practice - and evolution beyond control", EPFL, Switzerland (2015)
• "Swarm robotics - the future of healthcare?", RE.WORK Future Tech Summit, London, UK (2015)
• "Swarm robotics: Minimalism, learning and evolution" - ULB, Belgium (2014)
• "Swarm robotics: Minimalism, learning and evolution" - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (2014)
• "Is less more? Design principles for massively distributed robotic systems" - The Royal Society UK-Russia Frontiers of Science meeting, Kazan, Russia (2013)
• "Towards distributed autonomous robotic systems," CSAIL, MIT, USA (2012)
• "Towards autonomous robotic systems," Transducers Science and Technology Group, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands (2011)
• "From natural swarms to swarms of robots," Thrilling Wonder Stories 3, Architectural Association London, UK (2011)
• "Self-assembly at the macroscopic scale," Self-Assembly on all Scales workshop, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany (2011)
• "Autonomous mobile systems inspired by nature," Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany (2009)
• "Autonomous robotic systems inspired by nature," Fakultaet fuer Informatik, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany (2009)
• "Physical interactions in multi-robot systems," Faculty of EE & IT, Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany (2009)
• "Self-assembling robots: Physical interactions in collective robotics," IPVS, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany (2008)
• "What properties are required for individuals that work in groups or teams?," IPAB, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK (2007)
• "Teamwork in colonies of insect-like robots," Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK (2007)
• "Self-assembly and its use in swarm-bot," Murata Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2005)
• "Group transport by a self-assembling robotic system," Kosuge and Wang Lab, Tohoku Univ., Japan (2005)
• "Swarm-bots: A self-assembling robotic system," Fukuda Lab, Nagoya Univ., Japan (2005)