Dr. Michael Mccarthy

Biography

Michael McCarthy is an Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. He teaches graduate courses in Applied Cryptography, Distributed Systems, Internet of Things, Data Structures, and Algorithms. With over twenty years of university-level teaching experience, McCarthy has also served as the Director of Undergraduate Programs and as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a BA in Philosophy and an MS in Information Science (with a Systems Track) from the University of Pittsburgh. His professional background includes working as a software consultant for engineering firms. McCarthy is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and has received several accolades for his teaching, including the Apple Teacher Award and the Teacher of the Year Award from Carnegie Mellon. His research interests center around standard data representation and data processing methods on the World Wide Web, Web of Things, Web Services, and the Semantic Web. He has supervised student projects that focus on IoT Blockchain Technologies and the development of Open APIs in the banking industry, among others.

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