Primary Job Title Professor and Executive Associate Dean Primary Organization Georgia Institute of Technology
Location Greater Atlanta Area, Georgia, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Charles Isbell received his bachelor's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He earned his SM and PhD at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab and eventually joined AT&T Labs/Research. In 2002, he returned to Georgia Tech, where he is now Professor and Executive Associate Dean for the College of Computing. The unifying theme of
Charles' research interests has been using machine learning to build autonomous agents who engage directly with humans. His work has been featured in the popular press, congressional testimony, and in several technical collections. Charles has also pursued reform in computing education. He was a chief architect of Threads, Georgia Tech’s structuring principle for computing curricula. Charles was also an architect for Georgia Tech’s first-of-its-kind MOOC-supported MS in Computer Science. Both efforts have received international attention and been presented in the academic and popular press. In all his roles, he has continued to focus on issues of broadening participation in computing. He is the founding Executive Director for the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing. He is a AAAI Fellow and a Fellow of the ACM. Appropriately, his citation for ACM Fellow reads “for contributions to interactive machine learning; and for contributions to increasing access and diversity in computing”.
