Raja Chatila, IEEE Fellow, is Professor of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR). He also leads the SMART Laboratory of Excellence on Human-Machine Interactions. He contributed in several areas of Artificial Intelligence and autonomous and interactive Robotics along his career an published about 150 papers.
He was President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for the term 2014-2015. He is member of the Commission on the Ethics of Research on Digital Science and Technology (CERNA) in France and he is chair of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.