Bio
Colin Potts is vice provost for the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is responsible for overseeing offices and programs affecting undergraduate education, including the Center for Career Discovery and Development, the Honors Program, the Center for Academic Enrichment and the Center for Academic Success. He evaluates and approves academic policies affecting undergraduate students and proposals for all undergraduate courses and programs. Potts also represents Georgia Tech’s undergraduate academic affairs before the University System of Georgia Board of Regents and the Association of American Universities (AAU), among other constituencies.
Across the past 25 years, his research has been interdisciplinary and emphasized the human element in fields like requirements engineering, software design methods, human-computer interaction and information privacy. Potts is best known for design methods that start not from technology innovation but from user needs and envisaged scenarios of use.
After earning a doctorate from Sheffield University in psychology for performing research in text memory and comprehension, and then working as a software engineer and ergonomics consultant, Potts joined the Department of Computing at Imperial College, London. Later, he moved to the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation as a senior technical staff member. Potts joined Georgia Tech in 1992 as a faculty member in what is now the School of Interactive Computing.
