Chitta Baral is a professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also the chair of the graduate program in computer science. 

Baral joined ASU in 1999 as an associate professor, becoming a professor in 2002. Prior to ASU, he served as an assistant and associate professor with the University of Texas at El Paso (Sept 1991 - August 1999). His expertise includes bioinformatics knowledge representation, reasoning and declarative problem solving, and a systematic approach to designing and analyzing autonomous agents.