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###### Professor

mikeb@gatech.edu

http://mikeb.inta.gatech.edu

Research Areas: Computing and Global Development

## Biography

Dr. Michael L. Best is Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and Professor with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology where he directs the Technologies and International Development Lab. He was Director of Research at Georgia Tech – Shenzhen, our campus in China, from 2019 – 2021 and was founding director of the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) in Macau SAR, China. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has served as director of Media Lab Asia in India and head of the eDevelopment group at the MIT Media Lab.

## Affiliations

School of Interactive Computing
GVU Center
Institute for People and Technology (IPaT)
Online Master of Science Computer Science (OMSCS)