Tom Mitchell
Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
A Carnegie Mellon professor who founded its Machine Learning Department and wrote the widely used textbook Machine Learning.
Biography
Tom Mitchell is an American computer scientist and the Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1973 and a PhD from Stanford in 1979 under Bruce Buchanan. He began teaching at Rutgers in 1978 and joined Carnegie Mellon in 1986.
In 2006 he became the first chair of CMU's Machine Learning Department, which he founded, and he served as interim dean of its School of Computer Science in 2018 and 2019. He is the author of the textbook Machine Learning and is known for contributions to machine learning, artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010 and is a fellow and past president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Notable contributions
Founded Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department
Became the first chair of the Machine Learning Department in CMU's School of Computer Science in 2006 and is its founder.
Wrote the textbook Machine Learning
Authored the widely used university textbook Machine Learning.
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Elected in 2010 for pioneering contributions and leadership in the methods and applications of machine learning.