Michael Mannino

Michael is currently Director of Programs at the Institute for Data Science and Computing at the University of Miami, working on projects involving artificial intelligence, in various domains including smart cities, bioinformatics, healthcare, climate change, and ethics.

He holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and complex systems, having researched networks of the human brain involved in perception, memory, attention, with an emphasis on the framework of embodied cognition. Michael is also an amateur athlete, focusing on a variety of different movement modalities. He is passionate about the subject of peak performance, physical and cognitive enhancement, the intersection of neuroscience and fitness, the relationship between mind and body, and has studied and investigated flow science for many years.

Michael also has a Masters's degree in philosophy, specializing in philosophy of mind, consciousness, and science, and is a professor of philosophy and critical thinking for 10 years, teaching ethics and moral reasoning, philosophy, logic, as well as comparative religion. Michael is also very passionate about science communication, transhumanism and exponential technologies, AI, and space science. He is currently serving on the Singularity University Miami Chapter leadership team. He used to work at NASA many years ago and even recently applied to be an astronaut.