Raja Chatila is Professor Emeritus of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and IT Ethics at Sorbonne University in Paris. He is former director of the SMART Laboratory of Excellence on Human-Machine Interactions and of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics. He contributes in several areas of Artificial Intelligence and autonomous and interactive Robotics as well as in ethics of information technologies.

He is chair of The IEEE Global Initiative on ethics of and Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award.