Howie Choset, Kavčić-Moura Professor of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute has been elected as a 2024 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Choset is being recognized for “distinguished contributions to the field of robotics, and for leadership in entrepreneurship and education.” He is being recognized alongside 470 other scientists, engineers, and innovators for significant scientific and social achievements. Awardees will be inducted on June 7, 2025 in Washington, D.C. at the annual AAAS meeting.
“This year’s class of Fellows are the embodiment of scientific excellence and service to our communities,” said Sudip S. Parikh, Ph.D., AAAS chief executive officer and executive publisher of the Science family of journals. “At a time when the future of the scientific enterprise in the U.S. and around the world is uncertain, their work demonstrates the value of sustained investment in science and engineering.”
Choset’s work centers around bringing the precision of computer science and applied mathematics to the realities and uncertainties of mechanical systems. He has made fundamental contributions in design, motion planning, path planning, and estimation. Choset also co-directs the Biorobotics Lab at the Robotics Institute, where he and his affiliates look to biology for inspiration on how to reduce complicated problems in robotics.
Choset’s research program has made contributions to challenging and strategically significant problems in diverse areas such as surgery, manufacturing, infrastructure inspection, and search and rescue. This work has led him, along with his students, to form several companies including Medrobotics for surgical systems; Hebi Robotics for modular robots; and Pipe Force AI, for infrastructure (pipe) inspection and remediation for autonomous guided vehicles. Choset leads multi-PI projects centered on manufacturing, and he co-led the formation of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute. Additionally, Choset is a founding Editor of the Science Robotics journal, and he is currently serving on the editorial board of The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
“It is an honor to be elected as an AAAS fellow. I’m so grateful to have so many wonderful collaborators, including students, staff and faculty,” said Choset. “The people I work with are incredibly respectful, honest, hard-working, smart, and creative. It is on their shoulders I stand.”
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