Prasenjit
Mitra

Prasenjit Mitra is a professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, serves on the graduate faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, and is an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. His current research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, applied machine learning, natural language processing, big data analytics, and visual analytics, especially in application areas such as medical informatics, wildlife informatics, and sports analytics.

Mitra’s work at Penn State has focused on a broad range of topics ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to data mining on the web and social media, scalable data cleaning, political text mining, chemical formula and name extraction from documents, and the extraction of data and metadata from figures and tables in digital documents. He currently serves as director of the Cancer Informatics Initiative at Penn State.