Matthew Might (born 24 July 1981) is a computer scientist, biologist, educator, and public health administrator.
Might serves as the director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama Birmingham.
In 2008, he joined the faculty at the University of Utah, where he worked as a professor of computer science and pharmaceutical chemistry until 2017, when he moved to Birmingham, Alabama.
[1] Might wrote a blog post that went viral after his son, Bertrand, was diagnosed with NGLY1 deficiency, a rare disease that was previously unknown.
[5][6] Might used an artificial intelligence system he was developing called mediKanren to find out that Bertrand had Pseudomonas, during a time when he was in critical condition.