Senior Research Scientist

Mark joined IHMC as a Senior Research Scientist in July 2024. He will be a contributing faculty member to the joint UWF-IHMC Intelligent Systems and Robotics Ph.D. program. He previously was a professor at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia.

Orr was originally trained as a cognitive psychologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Orr received augmentation to this training with postdoctoral fellowships in computational modeling (Carnegie Mellon), neuroscience (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and epidemiology/complex systems (Columbia University).

Over the past decade, he has become heavily involved in understanding dynamic processes and drivers of risky behavior and decision making, primarily in a public health context, at the scale of the individual and populations. Orr is expanding these ideas into other contexts and for other applications.