Gul Agha (Sindhi: گل آغا ) is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Open Systems Laboratory.
[3] He received his Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Science from the University of Michigan in 1986 under the supervision of John Holland.
However, much of his doctoral research was carried out in Carl Hewitt's Message-Passing Semantics Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
[3] He has three daughters, including filmmaker Sindha Agha, and lives with his wife Jennifer S. Cole in Illinois.
[4] Agha was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "research in concurrent programming and formal methods, specifically the Actor Model".