Mykel Kochenderfer researches collision avoidance for manned and unmanned aircraft at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh where he studied at the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour in the School of Informatics. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science with a specialization in artificial intelligence and a minor in mathematics from Stanford University in June 2003. He is married to Mary Anne Kochenderfer, and they have a little girl named Emma and a baby boy named John.