Rod McCullom specializes in reporting on the intersections of science, technology, medicine and socioeconomics. McCullom’s focus areas include reporting new research and developments around artificial intelligence, biometrics, cognitive and brain sciences, computer vision, epidemiology, infectious disease and the science of crime and violence. McCullom reports the “Convictions” column for Undark. He is a contributor to Scientific American, Nature, Undark, The Atlantic, The Nation and others. Rod McCullom attended the University of Chicago. He was Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.