Senior Member status is designed to recognize AAAI members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence. To be eligible for nomination for Senior Member, candidates must be consecutive members of AAAI for at least five years and have been active in the professional arena for at least ten years. Applications should include information that details the candidate’s scholarship, leadership, and/or professional service.
AAAI members who meet these qualifications are welcome to apply for Senior Member grade by completing the online application. At least two references, one of which must be written by a AAAI Fellow or Senior Member, must accompany the application. References should be submitted by colleagues who know the candidate, and are familiar with their work and accomplishments.
Individuals selected for Senior Member status will receive a certificate and pin at the annual AAAI conference (or by mail if not available to attend in person), and will be listed on the AAAI website and in AI Magazine. A letter reporting the honor will be sent to the member’s employer on the achievement of senior member grade (per request of the newly elected senior member). Senior members can serve as a reference for other applicants for AAAI Senior grade.
Senior Member applications will be reviewed by a subcommittee of the AAAI Awards Committee, which is chaired by the immediate Past President of the Association. All applications and references must conform to the requirements listed on the form and must be received by 11:59 PM, September 20, 2024. No late or incomplete applications will be reviewed.
Each year a maximum of 25 members will be elected to the Senior status; individuals whose applications are not successful during the first round will be notified, and they may choose to have their applications reviewed the following year as long as their memberships stay current. After two years of consideration, individuals must wait one year before applying again.
For information regarding the Senior Member program, please send an email to seniormember@aaai.org .
We look forward to your participation in the AAAI Senior member program.
2024 Class of Senior Members
- Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia)
- Christopher Kanan (University of Rochester)
- Zhouchen Lin (Peking University)
- R. Venkatesh Babu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
- Edward Raff (Booz Allen Hamilton & University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
2023 Class
- Chris Amato (Northeastern University)
- Vineeth N Balasubramanian (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad)
- Kai-Wei Chang (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Jana Doppa (Washington State University)
- Mohamed Elhoseiny (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
- Jingrui He (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- Ehsan Hoque (University of Rochester)
- Matthew Lease (University of Texas, Austin)
- Bo Liu (Amazon Research)
- Wei Liu (Tencent)
- Daniel E. O’Leary (University of Southern California)
- Anita Raja (The City University of New York, Hunter College)
- William Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Han Yu (Nanyang Technological University)
- Lars Kotthoff (University of Wyoming)
2022 Class
- Dejing Dou (University of Oregon, United States)
- Meir Kalech (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
- Akihiro Kishimoto (IBM Research – Tokyo, Japan)
- Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, United States)
- Felipe Meneguzzi (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
- Antonija Mitrovic (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
- Frans A. Oliehoek (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Shirin Sohrabi (IBM Research, United States)
- Min-Ling Zhang (Southeast University, China)
2021 Class
- Haris Aziz (University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia)
- Ece Kamar (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Akshat Kumar (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
- Sriraam Natarajan (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
- Siddharth Srivastava (Arizona State University, USA)
- Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, USA)
- Kartik Talamadupula (IBM Research, USA)
- William Yeoh (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
- Neil Yorke-Smith (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
2020 Class
- Yigal Arens (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
- Wingyan Chung (University of Central Florida, USA)
- Yun Fu (Northeastern University, USA)
- Kobi Gal (Ben-Gurion University Israel and University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Nick Hawes (University of Oxford, UK)
- Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, USA)
- Balaraman Ravindran (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India)
- Paolo Remagnino (Kingston University, UK)
- Biplav Srivastava (IBM, USA)
- Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
- Fusun Yaman (BBN Technologies, USA)
- Hankz Hankui Zhuo (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
2019 Class
- Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- Roman Barták (Charles University, Czechia)
- Yiling Chen (Harvard University, USA)
- Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Minh Do (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
- Eric Eaton (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Vincent Ng (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
- Marco Valtorta (University of South Carolina, USA)
- Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
- Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
2018 Class
- Ariel Felner (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
- Martin Michalowski (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Ashish Sabharwal (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, USA)
- Ram Duvvuru Sriram (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
- Matthew E. Taylor (Washington State University, USA)
- Ingmar G. Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
2017 Class
- Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
- Xuelong Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Nathan R. Sturtevant (University of Denver, USA)
2016 Class
- Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire, USA)
2015 Class
- Susan Craw (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK)
- Stan Franklin (University of Memphis, USA)
- Yong Gao (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)
- Helen M. Gigley, Ph.D. (Central Intelligence Agency (retired), USA)
- David B. Leake (Indiana University, USA)
- Mausam (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
- Yi L. Murphey (University of Michigan Dearborn, USA)
- Leo J. Obrst (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
- Doina Precup (McGill University, Canada)
- David S. Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Franz Wotawa (Technische Universität Graz, Austria)
2014 Class
- Juan Carlos Augusto (Middlesex University, UK)
- Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI International, USA)
- Peter E. Clark (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, USA)
- Robin Cohen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- David W. Franke (Vast.com, USA)
- Alex A. Freitas (University of Kent, UK)
- Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA)
- Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA)
- Robert R. Hoffman (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA)
- Vasant Honavar (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Lawrence E. Hunter (University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA)
- Froduald Kabanza (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada)
- James Liu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
- Cindy Marling (Ohio University, USA)
- David L. Martin (Nuance Communications, USA)
- Maja J. Mataric (University of Southern California, USA)
- Alice M. Mulvehill (Memory Based Research, LLC, USA)
- Lin Padgham (RMIT University, Australia)
- Lynne E. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
- Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
- William C. Regli (Drexel University, USA)
- Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
- Miroslav N. Velev (Aries Design Automation, LLC, USA)
- John Yen (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
2013 Class
- Nestor Rychtyckyj (Ford Motor Company, USA)
- R. Michael Young (North Carolina State University, USA)
2012 Class
- Edward P. Katz (Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, USA)
- Kevin C. Knight (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
- Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
2011 Class
- Marie desJardins (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
- Hans W. Guesgen (Massey University)
- Tad H. Hogg (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)
- Diane J. Litman (University of Pittsburgh)
- João Pavão Martins (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon)
- Leora Morgenstern (SAIC)
- Ted E. Senator (SAIC)
- Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors)
- Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
In Memoriam
- Adele Howe (Colorado State University, USA)