Kevin Gold is an Associate 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 out of indie game company Choice of Games; Choice of Robots in particular was nominated for a few XYZZY awards and is rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam. His research interests are in how machine learning and AI intersect with teaching.