Carla E. Brodley is a computer scientist specializing in machine learning.
She is a proponent for greater enrollment of women and under-represented minorities in computer science.
[4] At McGill, she initially chose to major in English, quickly switching to economics,[4] but switched again to a double major in mathematics and computer science after taking and enjoying a computer programming course as a sophomore.
[2] After working as a consultant and computer programmer in Boston, she returned to graduate school, initially planning only to work for a master's degree in artificial intelligence, but continuing there for a Ph.D.[4] under the supervision of Paul Utgoff.
[1] Brodley was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2016 "for applications of machine learning and for increasing participation of women in computer science".