Michael received his doctorate in Computer Science from ucla in 2010 and joined the imdea Software Institute in 2013, following a postdoc fellowship at the Université Paris Diderot awarded by La Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris (fsmp). Prior to all that, Michael completed his undergraduate studies at Binghamton University (suny). He has been a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses at ucla and Université Paris Diderot, and has held internships at Microsoft Research, nasa Ames Research Center, and ibm.

Michael’s research enables the construction of reliable software by developing the foundations for effective programming abstractions and informative program analysis tools. Integrating technological trends with knowledge from several research communities spanning automata theory, programming languages, and distributed systems, his contributions include establishing the theoretical limits of program analysis, devising tractable approximations for intractable analysis problems, and building effective analysis tools.