Dr. Michael Pritchard

Research Bio

Machine Learning & Autonomous Systems faculty member at KSU's College of Technology and Aviation. Designer and senior faculty member of the MLAS program (Machine Learning and Autonomous Systems). PI (Principal Investigator), Dept of Treasury grant funding stream for the acquisition, creation, and integration of three new lab systems: Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem, Augmented/Virtual Reality Ecosystem, and Big Data Ecosystem.

Technical specialties include Information Sciences, Database Systems, Data Engineering & Modeling, Systems Analysis & Design, Emerging Technologies, and Machine Learning. My research specialties include: Information Theory, Cognitive Processing, Social Computing, Sensemaking and Cybernetics.

Quantitative Methodologies: k-means Clustering, Principal Component Analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Random Forest, Linear/Logistic/Multinomial/Multivariate Regression, Artificial Neural Networks, and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average.

Languages/Frameworks: Python, Scikit. Flask, SQLite, R, T-SQL, SQL Server, PL/pgSQL, Javascript, AJAX. Node.js, & Java. Tools: Anaconda, Spyder, Jupyter, Orange, ErStudio, Minitab, Tableau, SSRS, SSIS, Power BI, & SPSS AMOS.

Research Interests

Information Sciences
Database Systems
Data Engineering & Modeling
Systems Analysis & Design
Emerging Technologies
Machine Learning

Active Research

Machine cognition
Information theory
Cybernetic Systems
Autonomous Systems