Nitesh Chawla

Nitesh V. Chawla is a computer scientist and data scientist currently serving as the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the ''University of Notre Dame''. He is the Founding Director of the ''Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society.'' Chawla's research expertise lies in machine learning, data science, and network science. He is also the co-founder of ''Aunalytics'', a data science software and cloud computing company. Chawla is a Fellow of the [https://www.aaas.org/page/2023-fellows American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)], ''Association for Computing Machinery'' (ACM), [https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/current-aaai-members-who-are-fellows/ a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence], a Fellow of the [https://www.aaia-ai.org/fellows?words=chawla Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association], and a Fellow of the ''Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'' (IEEE). He has received multiple awards, including the ''1st Source Bank Commercialization Award'' in 2017, ''Outstanding Teaching Award'' (twice), ''IEEE CIS Early Career Award'', ''National Academy of Engineering New Faculty Award'', and the ''IBM Big Data Award'' in 2013. One of Chawla's most recognized publications, with a citation count of over 25,000, is the research paper titled "SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique." Chawla's research has garnered a citation count of over 62,000 and an H-index of 80. Provided by Wikipedia