Michael C. Frank (he/him/his) is Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University and director of the Symbolic Systems Program. He studies children's language learning and development, with a focus on the use of large-scale datasets to understand the variability and consistency of learning across cultures. Dr. Frank is a founder of the ManyBabies Consortium and has led open-data projects including Wordbank and the ongoing Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE) project. He served as president of the Cognitive Science Society, has edited for journals including Cognition and Child Development, and is the current co-editor in chief of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Dr. Frank has received awards including the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and the FABBS Early Career Impact Award. He received his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.