Summary
Brandon Booth is an Assistant Professor and former CU Boulder postdoc with 13 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, signal processing, and human-centered data collection. He combines rigorous academic research—PhD from USC—with industry-hardened engineering from game development to robotics and real-time 3D systems, giving him a rare fluency in both experimental design and production software. His work probes the eye-mind link in reading comprehension and uncovers sources of gender bias in automated interviews, translating behavioral signals and annotations into more accurate ground truth for affective and workplace studies. Brandon contributed to the IARPA-funded TILES project, linking physiologic and contextual sensing to daily mental-state self-reports, and builds tools to improve continuous real-time annotation quality. Based in Germantown, TN, he is adept at moving projects from R&D prototypes to reproducible research while maintaining attention to ethical implications of ML on people.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 3.976, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 3.976 at University of Southern California
BS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, 3.9, BS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, 3.9 at University of Colorado at Boulder