Background
Mitchell was born in Blossburg, Pennsylvania and grew up in Upstate New York, in the town of Vestal.
Mitchell was born in Blossburg, Pennsylvania and grew up in Upstate New York, in the town of Vestal.
He received his Bach of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 and a Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University under the direction of Bruce G. Buchanan in 1979.
He is currently the Chair of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Mitchell is known for his contributions to the advancement of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience and is the author of the textbook Machine Learning. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Mitchell began his teaching career at the Rutgers University in 1978.
During his tenure at Rutgers, he held the positions of Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science.
In 1986 he left Rutgers and joined Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh as a Professor. In 1999 he became the East. Fredkin Professor in the School of Computer Science.
In 2006 Mitchell was appointed as the first Chair of the Machine Learning Department within the School of Computer Science. He became University Professor in 2009.
He is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering since 2010.