Mike Pors received several awards for his academic and teaching excellence between 2012-2014 including the NSERC CGS-M, Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship, Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, and Eric Milner Prize. He has a MSc in Pure Mathematics from the University of Calgary and is certified in Java SE 8 programming. His experience includes teaching assistant roles, undergraduate research assistant roles, and developing Android apps. He has skills in technologies like Java, Python, C#, SQL, and front-end languages.