Chen elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Yixin Chen is the first from WashU to be elected a fellow
Yixin Chen, professor of computer science & engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
The association’s fellows are individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions over at least a 10-year period to the field of artificial intelligence. Chen is the first from WashU to be elected as an AAAI fellow, one of the highest honors in the AI community.
Chen, who also director of the Collaborative Human-AI Learning and Operation (HALO) Center, was elected for his significant contributions to machine learning, pioneering widely used architectures and algorithms for graph neural networks and lightweight deep neural networks. He is among 16 fellows elected in 2025.
In 2023, Chen was elected a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and in 2022, he was elected a Fellow of IEEE, a technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology.
Chen's research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, foundation models, AI for scientific discovery and computational biomedicine. He is particularly interested in human-AI collaboration, deep learning and their applications.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is a nonprofit scientific society designed to advance the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines.
