Dario Nardi, Ph.D. is a full-time lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, teaching in the Human Complex Systems minor degree program as well as Program in Computing and the university-wide Honors Collegium.

Dario received his doctorate in systems science from the State University of New York at Binghamton's Watson School of Engineering. He has a BS in aerospace engineering from USC. His background includes linguistics and creative writing.

Long-term interests and teaching include artificial intelligence and robotics, personality and organizational behavior, modeling and simulation of complex systems, and undergraduate curriculum design. Methods include computer models, live group simulations and phenomenological research. The core theme is "social situated action" - understanding behavior through a "systems" lens.

Dario has been a research faculty member with Interstrength Associates (formerly Temperament Research Institute) since 1993 under the leadership of Linda V. Berens, Ph.D, an organizational consultant trained in marriage and family therapy. With Interstrenght Associates, he has been intimately involved in innovative product development and research methods. His focus with personality involves developing the use of multiple complementary models to triangulate "true self" qualities.

Dario is the author and co-author of numerous books including Multiple Intelligences and Personality Type: Tools and Strategies for Developing Human Potential and Character and Personality Type: Discovering Your Uniqueness for Career and Relationship Success. He is co-author of the best-selling 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery and Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types in Organizations. Dario also authored game books Secrets of Pact Magic and Villains of Pact Magic.

Dario was born on Jan 3, 1970 in Los Angeles, where he lived until age 5. He also lived in Ojai, California. From age 5 he lived on Acra Beach in Barbados, the southern-most island in the Carribean. From 11 to 18 he lived in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington DC, and graduated Walt Whitman High School with honors and an all-expense paid trip to Japan, sponsored by the Japan-America Society, in the spirit of promoting peace and cross-cultural understanding.

He has authored various papers on research with students and created stand-alone software packages for classroom use, from a small-group simulator to a dynamical model of the human endocrine system. Dario's current focal project is "Truman" - a virtual/robotic agent capable of socially relevant behavior using natural language.