Bio

A prominent and highly respected professor and researcher in the field of robotics, Ronald C. Arkin is Regents' professor and associate dean for Research in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. An expert roboticist who has worked with leading electronics companies such as Sony and Samsung, Arkin's research interests include behavior-based control and action-oriented perception for mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles, deliberative/reactive architectures, robot survivability, multi-agent robotics, biorobotics, human-robot interaction, robot ethics, and learning in autonomous systems. Arkin served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) AdCom, and is a founding co-chair of IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Robot Ethics. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology and a Fellow of the IEEE.   He served as STINT visiting professor at KTH in Stockholm, as sabbatical chair at the Sony IDL in Tokyo, and in the Robotics and AI Group at LAAS/CNRS in Toulouse, France.