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 April of 2024, Gosha took over as the Site Lead of the Morehouse Supercomputing Facility through the Lead Class Computing Facility grant, 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 serves as an elected board member of the Computing Research Association' Executive Board and a former member of the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee.