I have been fortunate to work with some wonderfully bright and
enjoyable colleagues over the years. Here is a
list. This page is (continuously) under
construction. If you have updates, please email them to
Tom.Mitchell@cmu.edu
Current PhD Students:
Robin Schmucker
Machine Learning Department
machine learning in time series, K-12 education applications
Former PhD Students:
Abulhair Saparov, 2022, "Toward General Natural Language Understanding with Probabilistic
Worldbuilding," Machine Learning Department
currently Postdoc at NYU
Otilia Strecu, 2021, "Curriculum Learning," Machine Learning Department
currently at Google
Mariya Toneva, 2021, ""Bridging Language in Machines with Language in the Brain." Machine
Learning Department and Program in Neural Computation (jointly advised with Prof. Leila Wehbe)
currently Assistant Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
Anthony Platanios, 2020, "Learning Collections of Functions", Machine Learning Department
currently at Semantic Machines / Microsoft
Dan Schwartz, 2020, "Using Multitask Learning to Understand Language Processing in the Brain"
currently at Microsoft
Nicole Rafidi, 2018, "Using Machine Learning for Time Series to Elucidate Sentence Processing
in the Brain", Machine Learning Department
currently Software Engineer at Google NYC
Shashank Srivastava, 2018, "Teaching Machines to Classify from Natural Language
Interactions", Machine Learning Department
currently Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill
Derry Wijaya, 2016, "VerbKB: A Knowledge Base of Verbs for Natural Language Understanding",
Language Technologies Institute
currently Professor, Monash University Indonesia
Leila Wehbe, 2015, "The Time and Location of Natural Reading Processes in the Brain," Machine
Learning Department and Program in Neural Computation
currently Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Dept., CMU.
Jayant Krishnamurthy, 2015, “Learning to Understand Natural Language with Less Human Effort”, Computer Science Department
currently at Semantic Machines / Microsoft
Alona Fyshe, 2015, "Corpora and Cognition: The Semantic Composition of Adjectives and Nouns
in the Human Brain", Machine Learning Department and Program for Neural Computation
currently Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
Matt Gardner, 2015, "Reading and Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs", Language Technologies Institute
currently at Microsoft Semantic Machines
Justin Betteridge
currently Co-Founder, Solvvy.Com (acquired 2022 by Zoom)
Gustavo Sudre, 2012, "The Spatiotemporal Neural Representation of Concrete Nouns," Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, CMU.
currently Postdoc at NIH.
Edith L. M. Law, 2012, "Attribute Learning using Joint Human and Machine Computation," Machine
Learning Department, CMU. (jointly advised with Luis von Ahn)
currently Associate Professor at University of Waterloo
Leonid Teverovskiy
currently Research Scientist at Univ. of Pittsburgh
Mark Palatucci, 2011, "Thought Recognition: Predicting and
Decoding Brain Activity Using the Zero-Shot
Learning Model," Robotics Institute, CMU.
currently at his own startup company.
Kai-Min Chang, 2011, "Quantitative Modeling of the Neural Representation of Nouns and Phrases," Lanuguage Technologies Institute, CMU (jointly advised with Marcel Just)
currently Research Scientist in the Language Technologies Institute, CMU.
Indra Rustandi, 2010, "Predictive fMRI Analysis for Multiple Subjects and
Multiple Studies", Computer Science and Ctr. for the Neural Basis of
Cognition, CMU.
currently working on Wall Street.
Yifen Huang, 2010, "Mixed Initiative Clustering," Language Technologies Institute, CMU.
currently at Google, Seattle
Andrew Carlson, 2010, "Coupled Semi-Supervised Learning," Machine Learning Dept., CMU.
currently at Google Pittsburgh
Rebecca Hutchinson, 2009 "Hidden Process Models," Computer Science, CMU.
currently Professor at Oregon State University
Francisco Pereira, 2007 "Machine Learning Classifiers as
Instruments for Analyzing fMRI data," CS and Center for Neural Basis of
Cognition
currently at NIH
Stefan Niculescu, 2005. "Exploiting Parameter Domain
Knowledge for Learning in Bayesian Networks", Computer Science.
currently at Siemens Medical Solutions
Rosie Jones, 2005. "Learning to Extract Entities from
Labeled and Unlabeled Text," Language Technologies, March 2005.
currently at Yahoo!
Nicholas Roy, (jointly advised with Sebastian Thrun). 2003.
currently Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics at
MIT
Sean Slattery, 1999
currently at Applied Psychology Research,
London
Kamal Nigam, 2000
currently at Google Pittsburgh
Dayne Freitag
currently at SRI
Geoff Gordon
currently Professor in Machine Learning at Carnegie
Mellon University
Joseph O'Sullivan
currently at Google
Rich Caruana
currently Sr. Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
Lonnie Chrisman
currently at AskJeeves
John Cheng
currently at Global Infotek
Ming Tan
Alan Christiansen
Long-Ji Lin
Oren Etzioni
currently CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Prasad Tadepalli
currently Professor in Computer Science at Oregon State
University
Sridhar Mahadevan
currently faculty in Computer Science at University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Richard Keller
currently at NASA
Smadar Kedar
Paul Utgoff
(deceased) formerly faculty in Computer Science at University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Former Postdocs and Visiting Scientists:
Sharmistha Jat
currently researcher at Spotify
Igor Labutov
currently Co-Founder and CEO, LAER AI
Bishan Yang
currently Co-Founder, LAER AI
Ndapa Nakashole
currently Assistant Professor at UC San Diego
Amos Azaria
currently Assistant Professor at Ariel University
Partha Talukdar
currently Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Science
Alan Ritter
currently Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
Burr Settles (postdoc), 2008-2011.
currently Head of Research at Duolingo, Pittsburgh PA.
Estevam Hruschka (Brazil), 2007-2010.
currently senior researcher at Megagon Labs
Brian Murphy
currently Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Cumulus Neuroscience
Qiong Chen (China), 2004-5.
currently faculty in Computer Science at South China
University of Technology
Luis Barrios (Spain), 2003-4.
currently researcher at
Automática Industrial, Spain
