Carla E. Brodley

Professor, Dean of Inclusive Computing, Northeastern University, Founding Executive Director, Center for Inclusive Computing

Carla Brodley
  • Computing education research
  • Broadening participation in computing
  • University administration
  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • MS in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • BA in Mathematics and Computer Science, McGill University — Canada

Carla E. Brodley is the dean of inclusive computing and the founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. She is the dean emeritus of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.

A $50 million initiative, the CIC funds and advises universities in the United States to remove institutional barriers to the discovery, access, and retention of underrepresented groups in computing. In this role, Brodley works with presidents, provosts, deans, chairs, and faculty at more than 80 universities, all while raising money from the government, corporations, and philanthropists.

Previously, Brodley served as dean of Khoury College (2014–21) and, as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, served as a senior advisor to Northeastern President Joseph Aoun (2019–21). Before joining Northeastern, Brodley was a professor in the Department of Computer Science (2004–14) and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center (2011–14), as well as chair of the Department of Computer Science (2010–13) at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts, she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (1994–2004).

Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning research has led to advances not only in computer science, but also in remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content- based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine. As a result of this impact, Brodley was made a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Brodley's many leadership positions include program co-chair of the International Conference on Machine Learning, co-chair of AAAI, and associate editor of Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She also served on the Defense Science Study Group, the board of the International Machine Learning Society, the AAAI Council, the executive committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Board, the advisory committee for the NSF’s CISE Directorate, and the AAAS Section on Information, Computing, and Communication. Currently, Brodley serves on the board or advisory council of the Computing Research Association, the Mass Technology Leadership Council, and the Jackson Laboratory.

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