Dr. John Licato is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department of the University of South Florida (USF), Founder/Director of the Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) Lab, and Founder/Owner of Actualization AI, LLC. Dr. Licato's research is in artificial intelligence, focusing on natural language processing, argumentation, and human and legal reasoning. His AMHR Lab's goal is to develop AI that will help both machines and people to reason better together. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in May 2015. In August 2015, Licato started as an Assistant Professor of computer science at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) and founding director of the Analogical Constructivism and Reasoning Lab (ACoRL). Later that year, he was awarded the 2015 AFOSR Young Investigator's Program award, which was re-awarded in 2017 for $450K over three years. In 2017, he moved to the USF CSE department and established the AMHR lab.