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Michael Nielsen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on various areas including Epistemology, Decision Theory, and Logic, exploring the connections between ethics, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science. He is actively engaged in topics such as rational learning, problem induction, algorithmic fairness, and the mathematical foundations of probability and decision theory, as well as the computational theory of mind. Born and raised in Placerville, California, Michael has also lived in cities such as Moscow, Jakarta, Atlanta, New York, and in Australia. His academic journey includes a Bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008, a Master's degree in Philosophy from Georgia State University in 2014, and a PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University in 2019.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.