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Dr. Kinnis Gosha (pronounced Go-Shay) is the Hortinius I. Chenault Endowed Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Computer Science, and Executive Director of the Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing. In October of 2022, Gosha took over as the Principal Investigator of the NSF Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences (IAAMCS), a Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance funded by the National Science Foundation.   

To date, 21 undergraduate researchers in his lab have gone on to pursue a doctoral degree in computing. PI Gosha currently has over 60 peer-reviewed publications in the area of Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC). Since arriving at Morehouse (2011), he has included undergraduate student researchers as co-authors in 26 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Currently, Gosha is the founder and Co-Chair of the Black Issues in Computing Education (BICE) Symposium. Additionally, he is a newly elected board member of both the Computing Research Association and the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee.