Chitta Baral was born in Bhubaneswar, India on 3rd June 1966. He
is a professor at the Arizona State University. He obtained his
B.Tech(Hons) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur in 1987 and his M.S and Ph.D degrees from the University
of Maryland at College Park in 1990 and 1991 respectively. He has
been working in the field of knowledge representation and logic
programming since 1988, and his research has been supported over
the years by National Science Foundation, NASA, and United Space
Alliance. He received the NSF CAREER award in 1995 and led
successful teams to AAAI 96 and 97 robot contests. He has
published more than 65 articles in Logic Programming, Knowledge
Representation, and Artificial Intelligence conferences and
Journals.