Michael Eagle

Michael Eagle is an Assistant Professor in the Information Sciences and Technology Department at George Mason University and is one of the founding members of the new Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnership (CAHMP.) His research focuses on deriving understanding from complex interaction data from intelligent tutors and video games, educational game design with robust empirical studies showing their effectiveness in teaching introductory computer science, and new methods of individualized student modeling in the Genetics Cognitive Tutor.

Michael Eagle obtained his PhD from North Carolina State University in 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Human-Computer Interface (HCI) Institute at Carnegie Mellon University till 2018. He has worked in data science at Blizzard Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Turbine Inc.) Michael received an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention award, is a GAANN fellow, and is a Freeman-ASIA recipient. Michael lived in Japan for almost two years, attending Gakushuin as an undergrad and later as PI on an NSF EAPSI grant, he collaborated with Japanese researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in educational data mining.

ORCID: 0000-0002-2263-0156

Degrees

• PhD, Computer Science, North Carolina State University