Dr. Colin Potts joined Missouri S&T June 1, 2021, as provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs following a nearly 30-year career at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is responsible for overseeing all academic programs and planning of the three colleges: College of Arts, Sciences, and Education, College of Engineering and Computing and Kummer College of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development, University Libraries, Enrollment Management, Graduate Education, Faculty Affairs and faculty development, and international initiatives.

At Georgia Tech, Potts served as vice provost for undergraduate education from 2012 to 2021. In that role, he oversaw the offices and programs that govern the entire undergraduate education experience. He also served as a professor of interactive computing at Georgia Tech.

A native of London, Potts holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Sheffield University. Following his Ph.D., he worked as a software engineer and ergonomics consultant before joining Imperial College London’s department of computing. Later, he moved to the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. in Austin, Texas, then joined Georgia Tech in 1992. His research over the past 25 years has spanned the fields of requirements engineering, software design methods, human-computer interaction and information privacy.