Michael is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Dr. José A. B. Fortes. Prior to joining the ACIS lab, Michael received both his Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. He is currently involved with the DGLIM project in collaboration with the City of Gainesville and the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, where he works to find predictors between currently available data and the state of the local economy.