Kevin Gold is a Professor of the Practice in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University, teaching introductions to data science and AI. Before that, he taught at Wellesley, RIT, and Northeastern University, spent a few years as a software engineer at Google, and did research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 2008.
His text-based games Choice of Robots and Choice of Magics have been among the most successful games from indie game company Choice of Games. Choice of Robots was nominated for XYZZY awards and is rated “Overwhelmingly Positive” on Steam.
His current research interests are in how machine learning and AI intersect with teaching, especially how LLMs can be used in ways that support learning rather than bypass it.