Chitta Baral

Chitta Baral is a Professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University (ASU), part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He joined ASU in 1999 as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2002. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, natural language processing, vision-language systems, and neuro-symbolic approaches. He directs the Cognition and Intelligence Lab (COGINT Lab) and has authored influential works like the book Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Declarative Problem Solving (Cambridge University Press). His academic journey includes a B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, and M.S./Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Baral's work spans theoretical contributions (e.g., Answer Set Programming, logical reasoning) and applied domains like cybersecurity, biomedical informatics, and robotics. He has held editorial roles at top AI journals, led KR Inc., and collaborated with organizations like the Mayo Clinic. His recent research emphasizes LLM instruction engineering, bias mitigation, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks. He teaches advanced courses in NLP and advises students in AI-related areas.