The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has elected Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, as one of its 2024 fellows.

Chawla, who directs Notre Dame’s Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, joins a cohort of 11 new fellows selected for their “outstanding contributions to the theory or practice of AI.”

Specifically, he was recognized for his foundational and significant advancements in learning from imbalanced data, learning on graphs, and interdisciplinary applications of AI.