Michael Coggins

Mike Coggins, PhD, has spent most of the past 15 years working on human and/or machine sensory systems. At Cornell University, he studied physics with an emphasis on the vision and audition from the perspective of neurobiology, psychology, art and computer science. After graduating, Mike spent a little over 8 years in the US Air Force (active duty and reserves) as part of the Electronic Combat DSO tasked with developing, testing and qualifying defensive countermeasures to missiles that used (predominantly) optical sensors. Concurrently, he pursued a biomedical engineering Master’s degree and focused on computational projects around mimicking neuronal inputs to biomedical hardware, EEG data interpretation on human language choice, and experiments/data analytics on a cognitive overload study relating to human-machine interfaces for combat drone pilots. Upon leaving the USAF, Mike enrolled at Yale University, completing his Doctorate in Physiology; his thesis centered on characteristics of second-order sensory neurons in the visual and auditory pathways with broader application to tonic neuronal cells and processes. For nearly the past 4 years, Mike has been working on the front-lines of human sensory reprogramming for Equinox as an instructor, speaker and personal trainer with clients that typically have significant challenges to integrating peripheral and central nervous system processing post injury or traumatic disease. He formed a company – Replicate International – with the purpose of creating/analyzing experiments on retraining people, publishing results, and providing solutions through a combination of movement, nutrition and ergonomics.