| Stanford University, M.S. | 2004 |
| Neuroscience | |
| Princeton University, A.B. | 2001 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology |
Michael is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Lumos Labs. He leads the company’s research & development program, including the design of the Lumosity training tasks. He created the Lumosity Research Platform, which enables large-scale study of the impact of cognitive training in humans. He currently oversees research collaborations with labs in over a 25 academic institutions including Stanford, UCSF, Carnegie Mellon, UCSD, Columbia and Harvard.
Prior to founding Lumos Labs, Michael was a neuroscience Ph.D. student at Stanford University where he published research in a variety of neuroscience fields. His research included investigation of the neural correlates of human cognitive processes such as memory and attention, neurogenesis in rodents due to exercise and learning, and cellular plasticity initiated by changes in the environment. As an undergraduate at Princeton University, he built an electroencephalography (EEG) lab and designed and conducted experiments to explain the biological and behavioral functioning of human attention.
