He completed his Ph.D. at UNSW, Sydney, Australia in 1997. He worked for a short time in the Special Effects industry before returning to academia to do a Post-Doc at the WSI/GRIS computer graphics lab at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. After his Post-Doc he returned to Industry to work as Graphics Hardware Architect at ATI (later AMD). Michael has published multiple papers on Graphics Hardware and been involved in the organisation of the High-Performance Graphics conference, previously Graphics Hardware.