Gregory Abowd is a computer scientist. That’s what makes him a great fit as new dean of the College of Engineering.
Abowd is a computer scientist and mathematician; he comes to Northeastern as a former professor and endowed chair in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. The future of engineering, he says, is deeply enmeshed with computing, and vice versa. And, he adds, his “outsider perspective” gives him a fresh sense of direction for the college.