IHMC Research Scientists

- Department: IHMC
- Office Location: Pensacola
Dr. James Allen is Associate Director and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He has had a distinguished research and teaching career at the University of Rochester where he retains a 50% appointment as the John H. Dessauer Professor of Computer Science.

- Department: IHMC
- Office Location: Pensacola
Jonathan B. Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at IHMC and an Associate Professor of Neurology and Space Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and teaches operational space medicine at BCM’s Center for Space Medicine (CSM).

- Department: IHMC
- Office Location: Ocala
Dr. Bonnie J. Dorr, a leading researcher in the field of natural language processing, is joining the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) as an associate director and senior research scientist at IHMC’s Ocala facility.

- Department: IHMC
- Office Location: Pensacola
Dr. Matthew Johnson is a Research Scientist in the area of human-machine teaming for technologies such as robotics, software agents, and autonomous vehicles, in a variety of domains including disaster response, space applications, aviation, and military operations.

- Department: IHMC
- Office Location: Ocala
Dr. Arash Mahyari is a research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). He joined IHMC from ABB Robotics R&D Center, San Jose, CA, where he worked on developing the next generation of artificial intelligence algorithms for industrial robots.

- Department: IHMC
- Office Location: Pensacola
Jerry Pratt leads a research group at IHMC that concentrates around the understanding and modeling of human gait and the applications of that understanding in the fields of robotics, human assistive devices, and man-machine interfaces.