Nitesh Chawla
About
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 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 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 and the IBM Big Data Award in 2013. One of Chawla's most recognized publications, with a citation count of over 24,000, is the research paper titled "SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique." Chawla's research has garnered a citation count of over 53,607 and an H-index of 76.
