Call for Nominations : Special Early Career Session (SEC-Sess) at ASME IDETC 2026

[Chin-Hsing Kuo]

Dear colleagues,

I encourage you to nominate or self-nominate for our Special Early Career Session (SEC-Sess) at ASME IDETC 2026. 

This is an excellent opportunity to promote new and rising colleagues and to facilitate collaboration across the field. Nominations close on 20 May 2026, so I would welcome your submissions promptly.

Full details and the nomination form are included in Sree's message below.

Best regards,

Chin-Hsing

From: Sree Kalyan Patiballa <spati...@ua.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
To: Chin-Hsing Kuo <ch...@uow.edu.au>; Nilanjan Chakraborty <nilanjan.c...@stonybrook.edu>; Girish Krishnan <gkri...@illinois.edu>
Cc: Huang, Bingling <bih...@fullerton.edu>
Subject: Call for Nominations : Special Early Career Session (SEC-Sess) at ASME IDETC 2026

Dear Chin-Hsing, Nilanjan, Girish, and Bingling,

We have the SEC-Sess Call for Nominations ready to be distributed. Can we share the text and flyer (attached) with the MR committee? 

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Call for Nominations : Invited Presentations at the Special Early Career session (SEC-Sess)

The 50th Mechanisms & Robotics Conference, to be held as part of the 2026 ASME IDETC-CIE, will include a special invited session featuring early-career faculty. The objective of this session is to provide a scholarly forum for emerging researchers to present their recent contributions and to articulate prospective research directions within the field. The session encompasses a broad range of topics in mechanisms and robotics, including but not limited to robot design, motion planning, human-centered robotics, collaborative systems, soft robotics, parallel and reconfigurable mechanisms, tensegrity systems, rehabilitation robotics and exoskeletons, biomechanics, grasping and manipulation, compliant mechanisms, mechanical metamaterials, and origami-inspired systems.

Currently, the organizing committee seeks nominations of high-quality candidates for these invited talks.  The candidate should hold a tenure track or equivalent position at their university.  Candidates should expect to travel to Houston, TX, USA, in August for the in-person event.

To nominate a candidate, please fill out the Nomination Form link below no later than May 20, 2026.  Self-nominations are encouraged.

 

Nomination Form: https://forms.office.com/r/j7a6yFPkRD

 

Please direct additional questions to Sree Patiballa at spati...@ua.edu or Bingling Huang at bih...@fullerton.edu

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Thanks and regards,

Sree. 

Sree Kalyan Patiballa
Assistant Professor / Director of SMART Lab
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