The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s Fellows program was started in 1990 to recognize individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions—usually over at least a ten-year period—to the field of artificial intelligence.
In February of each year, the AAAI membership nominates individuals whom they consider to have achieved unusual distinction in the field. These nominations are then considered by the Fellows Selection Committee, comprising 9 AAAI Fellows who are current members of AAAI and chaired by the immediate Past President of AAAI. The committee generally selects 5-10 new Fellows each year.
Fellows’ accomplishments range from pioneering advances in the theory of artificial intelligence, to unusual accomplishments in artificial intelligence technology and AI applications. Leadership in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence or similar scientific organizations that promote the advancement of artificial intelligence through educational programs and support of forums for the exchange of ideas also plays a role in the selection process.
The following persons are on the active list of AAAI Fellows (current AAAI members).
- Luigia Carlucci Aiello
- Nancy Amato
- Kevin Ashley
- Pierre Baldi
- Harry Barrow
- Regina Barzilay
- Satinder Singh Baveja
- Yoshua Bengio
- Wolfgang Bibel
- Maggie Boden
- Piero Bonissone
- Michael Bowling
- Ronen Brafman
- Cynthia Breazeal
- Carla Brodley
- Rodney Brooks
- Bruce Buchanan
- Alan Bundy
- Wolfram Burgard
- Murray Campbell
- B Chandrasekaran
- Rama Chellappa
- Bill Clancey
- Phil Cohen
- William Cohen
- Anthony Cohn
- Vincent Conitzer
- Gregory Cooper
- Adnan Youssef Darwiche
- Randall Davis
- Giuseppe De Giacomo
- Johan De Kleer
- Luc De Raedt
- Thomas Dean
- Rina Dechter
- Gerald Dejong
- Inderjit Dhillon
- Thomas Dietterich
- Pedro Domingos
- Marco Dorigo
- Bonnie Dorr
- Jon Doyle
- Ed Durfee
- Oren Etzioni
- Scott E. Fahlman
- Boi Faltings
- Edward Feigenbaum
- Richard Fikes
- Tim Finin
- Ken Forbus
- Ken Ford
- Dieter Fox
- Mark Fox
- William T. Freeman
- Eugene Freuder
- Peter Friedland
- Pascale Fung
- Hector Geffner
- Michael Gelfond
- Michael Genesereth
- John Gero
- Lise Carol Getoor
- Yolanda Gil
- Maria Gini
- Ashok Goel
- Jonathan Gratch
- Kristen Grauman
- W Eric Grimson
- Barbara Grosz
- Joseph Halpern
- David Heckerman
- Malte Helmert
- Jim Hendler
- Ellen Hildreth
- Geoff Hinton
- Julia Hirschberg
- Jerry Hobbs
- Jörg Hoffmann
- Robert Holte
- Holger Hoos
- Eric Horvitz
- Eduard Hovy
- Ayanna Howard
- Michael Huhns
- Charles Isbell Jr
- Tommi Jaakkola
- Ramesh Jain
- Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
- Nick Jennings
- Thorsten Joachims
- Michael Jordan
- Leslie Kaelbling
- Subbarao Kambhampati
- Takeo Kanade
- Elaine Kant
- Henry Kautz
- Lydia Kavraki
- Pradeep Khosla
- Hiroaki Kitano
- Phil Klahr
- Kevin Knight
- Craig Knoblock
- Sven Koenig
- Daphne Koller
- Janet Kolodner
- Rich Korf
- Sarit Kraus
- Benjamin Kuipers
- John Laird
- Pat Langley
- Yann LeCun
- Daniel Lee
- Lillian Lee
- Maurizio Lenzerini
- Kristina Lerman
- James Lester
- Kevin Leyton-Brown
- Chih-Jen Lin
- Fangzhen Lin
- Michael Littman
- Bing Liu
- Huan Liu
- Donald Loveland
- Tomas Lozano-Perez
- Jiebo Luo
- Alan Mackworth
- Sridhar Mahadevan
- Dinesh Manocha
- Matt Mason
- Maja Mataric
- Mark Maybury
- David McAllester
- Andrew McCallum
- Sheila McIlraith
- Kathy McKeown
- Gerard Medioni
- Rada Mihalcea
- Steven Minton
- Robert Moore
- Stephen Muggleton
- Radhika Nagpal
- Dana Nau
- Bernhard Nebel
- Ramakant Nevatia
- Peter Norvig
- Natasha Noy
- Barry O’Sullivan
- Lynne E. Parker
- David Parkes
- Martha Palmer
- Peter Patel-Schneider
- Ramesh Patil
- Michael Pazzani
- Judea Pearl
- Joelle Pineau
- Jacques Pitrat
- David Poole
- Raj Reddy
- Dragomir Radev
- Elaine Rich
- Christopher Riesbeck
- Edwina Rissland
- Paul Rosenbloom
- Jeff Rosenschein
- Francesca Rossi
- Dan Roth
- Cynthia Rudin
- Daniela Rus
- Stuart Russell
- Tuomas Sandholm
- Jonathan Schaeffer
- Robert Schapire
- Thomas Schiex
- Lenhart Schubert
- Dale Schuurmans
- Bart Selman
- Thomas Schiex
- Stuart Shapiro
- Amit Sheth
- Stuart Shieber
- Yoav Shoham
- Howard Shrobe
- Candace Sidner
- David Silver
- Reid Simmons
- Yoram Singer
- Munindar Singh
- Aaron Sloman
- Stephen Smith
- David Smith
- Reid Smith
- Doug Smith
- Padhraic Smyth
- Mark Steedman
- Guy Steele Jr.
- Mark Stefik
- Peter Stone
- Peter Stuckey
- Gaurav Sukhatme
- Rich Sutton
- Bill Swartout
- Katia Sycara
- Peter Szolovits
- Milind Tambe
- Jay Tenenbaum
- Gerald Tesauro
- Sylvie Thiébaux
- Richmond Thomason
- Sebastian Thrun
- Antonio Torralba
- Miroslaw Truszczynski
- Leslie Valiant
- Peter Van Beek
- Pascal Van Hentenryck
- Moshe Vardi
- Manuela Veloso
- Wolfgang Wahlster
- Bonnie Webber
- Sholom Weiss
- Daniel Weld
- Michael Wellman
- Mary-Anne Williams
- William Woods
- Michael John Wooldridge
- Peter Wurman
- Shuicheng Yan
- Holly Yanco
- Qiang Yang
- Makoto Yokoo
- Zhi-Hua Zhou
- Shlomo Zilberstein