Raja Chatila

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Raja Chatila is a Professor of Robotics, AI and Ethics at ISIR-CNRS and Sorbonne Université (formerly Pierre and Marie Curie University), France.

He received the Ph.D. degree in control science on robot navigation from the University of Toulouse Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in 1981. He was the Director of Research, French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France. From 2000 to 2006, he led the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, where he was the Director of LAAS-CNRS from 2007 to 2010. He is currently a Professor with Sorbonne Université, Paris, where he has been the Director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics from 2014 to 2019.

He has led major projects in autonomous and interactive robotic. His contributions to SLAM, robot motion planning, action planning, control and cognitive architectures, machine learning, and human–robot interaction are published in over 150 papers[1].

He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013[2] for contributions to robot navigation and cognitive robotics and received an IEEE Pioneer Award the same year[3].

He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He was President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for the term 2014-2015. He is co-chair of the Responsible AI Working group in the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and member of the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN). He is chair of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. He was member of the High Level Expert Group in AI with the European Commission (HLEG-AI).

Honors:[edit]

  • IEEE Fellow
  • IEEE Pioneer Award in Robotics and Automation (2013)[3]
  • Honorary Doctor of Örebro University (Sweden).

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Raja Chatila". scholar.google.fr. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
  2. ^ "29 Indians and Indian-Americans named 2013 IEEE fellows". The Free Press Journal. 27 December 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society". www.ieee-ras.org. Retrieved 2024-05-21.

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