SES oversees several awards and honors to members and eminent scholars of the field. A total of six medals are offered on an annual basis as well as election to Fellow grade of the Society
For the inaugural SES Student and Postdoctoral Award (2026), 16 finalists were invited to present their research in an oral session at the annual SES Meeting in October. No more than five awardees will be selected based on the quality of their presentations. The oral session is open to all the conference attendees. The nomination form will be made available early each calendar year, following the announcement of the call for nominations.
The deadline for submitting nominations is September 1st.
For pioneering contributions to robotics, including foundational advances in cooperative manipulation, multi-robot formation control, autonomous swarms, and agile aerial vehicles, translating rigorous theory into transformative engineering applications in autonomy, field robotics, and industry-shaping innovations.
Vijay Kumar
TaeHong Kim
Purdue University
Yue Wang
University of Houston
Amirreza Tarafdar
Syracuse university
Yijie Cheng
Michigan State University
Andrew Chen
MIT
Luc Capaldi
Farhad Kamarei
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fangjie Qi
North Carolina State University
Ohnyoung Hur
Virginia Tech
Qiong Wang
Northwestern University
Shupeng Li
Northwestern University
Chenghai Li
Harvard University
Taekyoung Kim
Northwestern University
Jianyu Zhou
North Carolina State University
Abhishek Gupta
Brown University
Sage Fulco
MIT