Mike Meaney was most recently the Head of Learning Engineering at Multiverse, a start-up building a digital apprenticeship platform to modernize pathways to high-quality jobs. He was previously a Research Lead at Facebook, where he focused on research and product development to improve tools for social mobility. Earlier in his career he served as an Innovation Fellow and Product Manager at Arizona State University, and as a middle school science teacher in the Isaac School District as a Teach for America Corps Member.
Mike holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He maintains an academic appointment with Arizona State University, where his research explores the economics of education and the design of inclusive learning at massive scale, leveraging computational and design-based methods. His research has been published in the Journal of Learning Analytics, the ACM Proceedings of Learning @ Scale, and by the Brookings Institution.