Michael Mannino, MA, PhD | Director | Artificial Intelligence Center of Miami Dade College

Michael Mannino has a somewhat diverse background, which has given him a variety of competencies, and expertise in different domains. From my PhD in neuroscience and complex systems, he has scientific, mathematical, statistical, modeling and some coding skills -- an understanding of networks and their dynamics, complexity science, and the science of coordination dynamics. His research was in computational cognitive neuroscience, and focused on complex information flow in large scale brain networks that subserve cognitive processes like decision-making, attention, working memory, and perception; utilizing concepts like self-organization, emergence, pattern formation, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, information theory, and time series analysis. From his graduate work in philosophy, he has strong writing skills, critical thinking, logical, ethical, conceptual, analytical/problem solving, and strong communication skills, as well as being able to understand the "big picture" -- seeing the forest for the trees. His concentrations within philosophy are: philosophy of mind/consciousness (embodied cognition), philosophy of science (including biology and physics), moral philosophy (including metaethics), philosophy of economics, and philosophy of religion. He is also currently an adjunct professor teaching philosophy, critical thinking, psychology and comparative religion at Miami Dade College in Miami, FL. Michael’s bachelors degree is in astrophysics and space sciences, and used to work for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in DC.