Mission & Focus

Our Mission

The Center for Machine Learning is housed in the Department of Computer Science within the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Our mission is to foster excellent research and development of machine learning algorithms motivated by challenges from real work domains ranging from precision health to natural language understanding, from biology to social network analysis and from vision to mobile health.

Our core team consists of researchers whose expertise lie in relational models, probabilistic modeling, combinatorial optimization, active learning, logic-based learning, human-in-the-loop learning, reinforcement learning, supervised learning and data mining. The research emphasis of the center implies it is synergistic with the Human Language Technology Research Institute and the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute. Furthermore, the center will promote outreach and educational activities in machine learning and AI, such as a summer school for students from other universities who are interested in this area.