Ronald Arkin

Ronald C. Arkin is a renowned roboticist and roboethicist, currently serving as a Regents' Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.135 He received his B.S. from the University of Michigan, M.S. from Stevens Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1987.36

Dr. Arkin's career at Georgia Tech began in 1987 when he joined as an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing.3 He founded the Mobile Robot Laboratory and became the first person in the College of Computing's history to receive the honor of Regents' Professor in 2002.4 From 2008 to 2017, he served as the Associate Dean for Research and Space Planning in the College of Computing.6

His research interests include:

• Behavior-based reactive control for mobile robots and UAVs
• Hybrid deliberative/reactive software architectures
• Robot survivability and multiagent robotic systems
• Biorobotics and human-robot interaction
• Robot ethics and learning in autonomous systems3

Dr. Arkin has authored several influential books, including "Behavior-Based Robotics" (MIT Press, 1998) and "Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots" (Chapman-Hall, 2009).3 He has also conducted significant research on ethical autonomous systems capable of lethal action, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.25

Throughout his career, Dr. Arkin has held various visiting positions, including STINT visiting Professor at KTH in Stockholm, Sabbatical Chair at Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratory in Tokyo, and a member of the Robotics and AI Group at LAAS/CNRS in Toulouse.13 He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has served on numerous editorial boards and committees in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence.3

His LinkedIn username is ronald-arkin-a3a9206.6