Hello world! 👋

I’m Michael and I come from New York. My role in this world shifts like early light—everchanging, yet cast in familiar hues: programming, research, writing, or some blend of the three. Most often, I’m fueled by curiosity, the courage to build something extraordinary, and a cup of matcha.

My journey

Starting 2025: PhD, Psychology @ CUNY Graduate Center
Starting 2025: Teaching Fellowship @ Queens College
2024–2025: VENLab Manager @ Brown University
2020–2024: BA, Computer Science and Psychology @ College of the Holy Cross

✨ Pushing directly to main since 2022
📚 Currently preparing for graduate school
🎯 Goals: Learn how to mod more games!

I have worked with

unity logo csharp logo cplusplus logo python logo lua logo sqlite logo matlab logo java logo javascript logo html5 logo css3 logo julia logo android logo androidstudio logo dotnetcore logo git logo illustrator logo photoshop logo vscode logo visualstudio logo

Some of my previous research

Vail et al. (2025). Narrative Quality Affects Narrative Satisfaction, Narrative Transportation, and Social Presence of Story-Driven Video Games

Vail et al. (2024). A Social Synchrony Task for Evaluating Differences in Social Connectedness

Morris et al. (2024). Effect of Ambulatory Conditions and Virtual Locomotion Techniques on Distance Estimation and Motion Sickness of a Navigated VR Environment

Articles

During my undergraduate years at the College of the Holy Cross, I wrote for The Spire, the official student newspaper. I began as a staff writer, soon promoted to editor and then chief editor of the satire and creative writing section. My goal with every article was to make you laugh; if not laugh, smile; if not smile, wonder, I don’t know what I just read—but I’m glad I read it. I’m a changed person now.

Starred articles indicate that I am proud of my work to a higher degree than usual.

Scooby-Doo: Fair Trade or Exploitment?

⭐ Graduation Day

Netflix Announces Innovative Policy Changes

Optimizing Your Reaction Time for Enrollment

BREAKING: Congressmen Expose TikTok’s Development Failures

Gaming & Esports Club Touches Grass: An Interview With Sebastian Johns ‘23

A Deep Dive Into Upcoming Events on myHC

Holy Cross Theatre Premieres Musical Company

⭐ Report: “Can Robots Feel Pain?”

Surviving the Worcester Winter

My Resume (Royalty-Free)