Sylvia Isler wearing glasses and a blue collared short smiling at the camera.

Sylvia Isler, Ph.D.

Computer Science ’96

Department
Kennedy College of Sciences Advisory Board
Email
Sylvia.isler@gmail.com

Expertise

Director of Engineering, Google

Education

  • Bachelors - Computer Science, Hampton University
  • Masters - Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
  • Doctorate - Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Biosketch

Sylvia Isler was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Over the past three decades, she has worked as an engineer and engineering leader in a variety of technology domains including scientific computing, fintech, networking and cloud computing. She currently serves as an advisor to VC Funds in the NYC Tech Sector.

Her past positions include: at Boston-based MathSoft lead engineer of S-PLUS, the commercial successor to R; at Kiodex (now FIS), lead engineer and VP of Engineering; at EMC| Smarts, Principal Engineer; at Boston-based Turbonomic, SVP of Engineering and at Alphabet-spinoff, Cityblock Health, VP of Engineering.

She is now at Google where she has led an engineering team working on the next-gen Android Platform build system and currently leads a team working on the next-gen Search platform.

Isler earned her Computer Science Bachelors and Masters degrees from Hampton University and University of Pennsylvania, respectively.