Biography
Phillip John Isola is an assistant professor in EECS at MIT studying computer vision, machine learning, and AI.
Previously, he spent a year as a visiting research scientist at OpenAI, and before that he was a postdoctoral scholar with Alyosha Efros in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. he completed his PhD in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT, under the supervision of Ted Adelson, where he also frequently worked with Aude Oliva. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Yale, where he got my start on research working with Brian Scholl.
Phillip studies why we represent the world the way we do, and how we can replicate these abilities in machines.