Tom M. Mitchell Research Group

The group uses functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to capture three-dimensional images of human brain activity and trains machine learning algorithms to decode mental states from those images. The group develops temporal models and classifiers for extremely high-dimensional, noisy fMRI data to discover spatial-temporal activity patterns associated with cognitive tasks. The group builds intelligent workstation assistants that learn from users' email, calendar and text files, focusing on automatic information extraction and cumulative long-term learning. The group applies large language models and student-knowledge tracing to improve online education systems and to select effective teaching actions.