His research interests are in machine learning, computer vision, crowdsourcing, and their applications to human behavior analysis, particularly in the domain of education. His work is interdisciplinary and frequently intersects cognitive science, psychology, and education. Before joining WPI, he was a research scientist at the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University. In 2012, he co-founded Emotient, a San Diego-based startup company for automatic emotion and facial expression recognition. Jacob is an avid teacher and has lectured, mentored, and tutored students in the USA, South Africa, Rwanda, and Germany. Website: https://users.wpi.edu/~jrwhitehill/ Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PGyMqU0AAAAJ