Michael is a postdoctoral researcher at the UC Berkeley School of Education, where he creates and studies cooperative and participatory design contexts with historically minoritized youth, their families, and teachers, and then create design frameworks and tools that support interdisciplinary teams of computer scientists and education researchers in realizing visions articulated in the co-design space. More particularly, he has expertise in creating co-design contexts that support dreaming about K-12 schools beyond the status quo, and the role that artificial intelligence might have in making those dreams a reality. He draw from ethical and relational approaches to co-design from the learning sciences, speculative design approaches from human-computing interactions, and his extensive experience doing research on computing infrastructure (e.g., computer networks, computing systems, etc.). Michael has a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley.