Honorary Chair                        Teuvo Kohonen, Academy of Finland
General Chair                          Erzsébet Merényi, Rice University
Publication Co-Chair               Michael J. Mendenhall, Air Force Institute of Technology

Local Organizers at Rice and AFIT
Patrick O’Driscoll, Rice University         Local Chair
Phyllis Huitron, Rice University               Finance and Logistics Chair, Web Master   
Yeshaya Adler, Rice University              Publicity Chair                       
Jonathon Climer, Capt., USAF, AFIT      Publication Assistant
Joshua Taylor, Rice University               Hospitality Chair
Jose Vera-Garza, Rice University          

Steering Committee

• Teuvo Kohonen
• Marie Cottrell
• Pablo Estevez
• Timo Honkela
• Thomas Martinetz
• Michel Verleysen
• Thomas Villmann

Program Committee   

• Guilherme Barreto, Brazil
• Michael Biehl, The Netherlands
• Yoonsuck Choe, USA
• Marie Cottrell, France
• Pablo Estévez, Chile
• Jan Faigl, Czech Republic
• Barbara Hammer, Germany
• Marika Kaden, Germany
• Markus Koskela, Finnland
• John Aldo Lee, Belgium
• Paulo Lisboa, UK
• Thomas Martinetz, Germany
• Risto Miikkulainen, USA
• Erkki Oja, Finnland
• Madalina Oltenau, France
• Jaakko Peltonen, Finnland
• Gilbert Peterson, USA
  
• Andreas Rauber, Austria
• Helge Ritter, Germany
• Fabrice Rossi, France
• Frank‐Michael Schleif, UK
• Udo Seiffert, Germany
• Sambu Seo, Germany
• Kadim Taşdemir, Turkey
• Peter Tino, UK
• Alfred Ultsch, Germany
• Marc van Hulle, Belgium
• Michel Verleysen, Belgium
• Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix, France
• Thomas Villmann, Germany
• Axel Wismueller, USA
• Hujun Yin, UK