OSRF is pleased to welcome Ian Chen! Ian received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Auckland in 2011 under the supervision of Bruce MacDonald and Burkhard Wünsche. Ian spent his PhD investigating methods for improving the robot development cycle, particularly through the use of real time simulation and visualization. After a short interlude working as a software engineer on the open source Qt framework, Ian is excited to be back in the realm of robotics where he can continue his career in robot simulation and open source development at OSRF.