Phillip Isola

Phillip Isola is the Class of 1948 Career Development associate professor in EECS at MIT. He studies computer vision, machine learning, and AI. He completed his PhD in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and has since spent time at UC Berkeley, OpenAI, and Google Research. His work has particularly impacted generative AI and self-supervised representation learning. Dr. Isola's research has been recognized by a Google Faculty Research Award, a PAMI Young Researcher Award, a Samsung AI Researcher of the Year Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship. His teaching has been recognized by the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching. His current research focuses on trying to scientifically understand human-like intelligence.