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Phillip Isola

Positions
Class of 1948 Career Development Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Keywords
Computer Vision
AI Explainability
Machine Learning

Synopsis

Synopsis

Phillip Isola is interested in why we represent the world the way we do, and how we can replicate these abilities in machines.

Phillip Isola in front of whiteboard

Biography

Biography

Phillip Isola is an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His work focuses on why we represent the world the way we do, and how we can replicate these abilities in machines. Before coming to MIT, he was a visiting research scientist at OpenAI. He earned a PhD in brain and cognitive sciences at MIT and spent two years as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley.