AMISTAD Lab | 168 followers on LinkedIn. A group of budding machine learning scientists, producing award-winning research at Harvey Mudd College. | Founded in 2018, AMISTAD Lab is an undergraduate research laboratory directed by George D. Montañez, PhD, currently an assistant professor at Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, CA. The AMISTAD Lab (Artificial Machine Intelligence = Search Targets Awaiting Discovery) is a lab focused on pursuing foundational theoretical work in machine learning from a search and information theory perspective.