External Research Scholar

Michael holds a courtesy appointment as External Research Scholar at IHMC and is Professor in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and in Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health.

He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems, with minors in Computer Science and Psychology, from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Florida. Michael worked as an AI and human-computer interaction research scientist at Honeywell’s Aerospace and Defense Group [holding Secret clearance], and has been in the faculties of Dartmouth College, Carnegie Mellon University,  University of Florida, and was department chair at the Johns Hopkins University where he also held an adjunct appointment in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has been a visitor at Oxford University and the University of Cambridge.

Michael’s research focuses on human and machine cognition (including early AI work with both Herbert Simon and Allen Newell), human-AI collaboration and trust, and agent-based systems. His primary research areas are building computational models of individual and group behaviors the analysis and representation of expert knowledge, mHealth design, health intervention AI models, and how neurobiological correlates of sacred values, beliefs, narrative, and culture impact decisions and collaboration. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory Global Health Institute, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of Naval Research.

Michael’s work is highly interdisciplinary, publishing in such journals as PLoS One, Brain Connectivity, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Organizational Science, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Organizational Design, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, ORSA Journal on Computing, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Educational Technology Systems, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Journal of Medical Internet Research: mHealth & uHealth, Human Factors, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (the oldest scientific journal in the English-speaking world), and twice in the Harvard Business Review (once with Nobel Laureate Hebert Simon).

He currently has 25 book chapters, 40 journal papers, and over 120 papers presented at conferences. He has co-edited two books: Computational Organization Theory [Erlbaum] with Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon) and Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and Groups [MIT Press] with Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon) and Les Gasser (University of Illinois). His current book under development is a history of artificial intelligence emerging from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration of Carnegie Mellon University.

Michael has also served as a stage manager and member of the Board of Directors for a community theatre company, a co-developer of a popular theatrical-based series of courses and leadership workshops at Carnegie Mellon for improving presentations, was a former blues-rock drummer (now a member of a fluid blues-rock collection of faculty & friends), and was a certified PADI scuba diving instructor.