Prof. Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech was named among 10 individuals elevated to Fellow status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
âAAAI is thrilled to announce the election of ten new Fellows for their lasting contributions to the breadth of #AI, including Planning, RL, Robotics, NLP, CBR and Vision The new fellows will be inducted (astrally) and felicitated (with secret hand-shake etc.) during #AAAI2021,â the association said in a tweet.
Goel is a professor of computer science and human-centered computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, his bio notes.
The Indian American professor received his Ph.D. in computer and information science from Ohio State University in 1989 and joined the Georgia Tech faculty the same year. At Georgia Tech, he has been a co-director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design (2008-18) and the director of the Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing (2012-19).