Michael A. Coury

Michael Coury is an associate technical staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is focused on research and development of software tools in the areas of cross-language information retrieval, statistical machine translation, automatic speech recognition, social network analysis, and graph visualization.

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory in 2012, he was a software engineer at Lockheed Martin where he developed a variety of mission-critical software tools for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance platforms in the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Space Systems. Notably, he served as the software lead for the Ground Control Processor of the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System during operational flight testing of sensors aboard the U-2 and the Global Hawk aircrafts, and he supported an Empire Challenge exercise.

Coury received his MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, where his research included sentiment analysis in text and object recognition and tracking in video. He received his BS degree in Computer Science from Saint Louis University with minors in Physics and Engineering Mathematics. In 2008, he was a recipient of the Presidential Volunteer Service Award.