Sanjay Chawla is Research Director of QCRI’s Data Analytics department. His research is in data mining and machine learning with a specialization in spatio-temporal data mining, outlier detection, class imbalanced classification, and adversarial learning.

Dr. Chawla's work has been recognized with several best paper awards, including in leading conferences such as SIAM International Conference in Data Mining (2006) and IEEE International Conference in Data Mining (2010).