Charles Eliot

Charles Eliot

Deputy Director, Software

Charles Eliot leads software engineering at the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM). His team provides world-class software tools and services to support IDM’s contributions to eradicating infectious disease.

Before joining IDM, Charles worked at Microsoft for almost 25 years in a variety of engineering management roles, including head of engineering services for Skype.

Charles has a B.Sc. in chemistry from MIT and studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.

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