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CSE Alumni Nitesh Chawla named IEEE Fellow
January 12, 2022
CSE Alumni (‘02) Nitesh Chawla has been named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to learning from imbalanced data and heterogeneous graphs.
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with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
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of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and
is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career
achievement.
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