Dr. Stephen M. Fiore is Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and Pegasus Professor with the University of Central Florida’s Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Institute for Simulation and Training. He maintains a multidisciplinary research program that incorporates aspects of the cognitive, social, organizational, and computational sciences in the investigation of learning and performance in individuals and teams. His primary area of research is the interdisciplinary study of complex collaborative cognition and the understanding of how humans interact socially and with technology. Most recently, this includes examining aspects of human-AI teaming and how team and task factors relate to process and performance differences.

Dr. Fiore is a founding board member of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research, an organization formed to strengthen and to promote the global capacity and the caliber of collaborative modes of boundary-crossing research and practice. And he is past-president and founding board member of the International Network for the Science of Team Science, and past-president and founding board member of the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research.

At the federal level, Dr. Fiore served on DARPA's Information Sciences and Technology (ISAT) Study Group to help the DoD examine future areas of technological development potentially influencing national security. He has also served on the National Academies of Sciences committee for a consensus study on Research and Application in Team Science. And he has contributed to working groups for the National Academies of Sciences in understanding and measuring “21st Century Skills”. Dr. Fiore was also a committee member of their 2015 “Science of Team Science” consensus study, as well as a member of the National Assessment of Educational Progress report on “Collaborative Problem Solving”. At the international level, he has been a visiting scholar for the study of shared and extended cognition at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in Lyon, France (2010) and he was a member of the expert panel for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) which focused on collaborative problem-solving skills.

In 2023, Dr. Fiore was named a Pegasus Professor, UCF’s highest academic distinction. In 2020, he was inducted into UCF’s Scroll & Quill Society, as recognition of the international impact of my scholarship. And he is recipient of UCF's Luminary Award (2019), as recognition for his work having a significant impact on the world, and UCF's Reach for the Stars Award (2014), as recognition for bringing international prominence to the university. He also has been awarded UCF’s prestigious Research Incentive Award numerous times to acknowledge his significant scholarly accomplishments.

As Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator he has helped to secure and manage approximately $35 million in research funding. He is co-author of a book on “Accelerating Expertise” (2013) and is a co-editor of volumes on Shared Cognition (2012), Macrocognition in Teams (2008), Distributed Training (2007), and Team Cognition (2004). Dr. Fiore has also given over 100 international and national invited talks and has co-authored over 250 scholarly publications in the area of learning, memory, and problem solving in individuals and groups.