Kevin Gold
Associate Professor of the Practice of Computing & Data Sciences Preceptor for Instruction
Kevin Gold is Associate Professor of the Practice and Preceptor for Instruction in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. Before landing at Boston University he was an algorithm design engineer at Epson, a software engineer at Google, a research scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and a professor at Wellesley, RIT, and Northeastern. His interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, modeling human behavior, and making education interesting and fun. Some projects he worked on in industry include mobile MPEG players with reduced power consumption for Epson, a system to model internet traffic for cybersecurity exercises at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and a distributed machine learning system for identifying sources of playback error at YouTube.
Kevin received his PhD in Computer Science from Yale in 2008, and his bachelor's in Computer Science from Harvard in 2001.