Charles Lee Isbell Jr.
Charles Lee Isbell Jr. | |
|---|---|
| 11th Chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | |
| Assumed office August 1, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Robert J. Jones |
| Provost of the University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
| In office 2023 – 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Karl Scholz |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 18, 1968 Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Education | Georgia Institute of Technology (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Georgia Tech AT&T University of Wisconsin University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis | Sparse Multi-Level Representations for Text Retrieval (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rodney Brooks Paul Viola |
Charles Lee Isbell Jr. (born December 18, 1968) is an American computer scientist, currently serving as the 11th chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since August 2025.
Isbell joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing in 2002 and served as the dean of the College of Computing from July 2019 to July 2023. He served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from August 2023 to June 2025.
Isbell's research interests focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence, particularly interactive and human-centered AI. He has published about 100 scientific papers.