Prof. Vadakkepat, an Associate Prof. at the National University of Singapore is the founder secretary of the Federation of Int’l Robot-soccer Assoc. and currently it’s General Secretary. Prof. Vadakkepat received his M.Tech and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1989 and 1996 respectively. While pursuing Post-Doctoral studies at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST, 96-98), he was awarded the Korea Science and Eng. Foundation (KOSEF) fellowship. Since 1999, he is with the National Univ. of Singapore. His research interest include Distributed robotic systems, Humanoid robotics, Biomorphs, Neuro-Fuzzy Controllers and Intelligent Control techniques and, has publications in several leading international journals. He is an associate editor of the Int. Journal of Humanoid Robotics. Dr. Goswami has been with Honda Research Institute in California, USA, for the past ten years, where he is currently a Principal Scientist. His field is dynamics and control, and his main research is in the application areas of humanoid robots, assistive exoskeletons and vehicles. He received the Bachelor's degree from Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata, India, the master's degree from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, and the Ph.D. degree from Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, all in Mechanical Eng.. Prof. Kim received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Eng. from SNU, Korea, in 1981, 1983 and 1987, respectively. Since 1988, he has been with the Dept of Electrical Eng. at KAIST and is currently KT Chair Prof. He was one of the co-founders of the Int’l Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning in 1996, the FIRA RoboWorld Congress in 2002 and Int’l Conference on Robot Intelligence Tech. and Applications (RiTA) in 2012. He was General Chair for the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Seoul, Korea, 2001, the IEEE Int’l Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Daejeon, Korea, 2009 and RiTA 2012, Gwangju, Korea.