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Michael Sparkman

Data Scientist

Michael Sparkman is a Data Scientist at Akamai. He has 6 years experience working on disaster and relief projects and fraud and security analytics with a focus on bot automation. At Akamai, he researches new automation threats and works with customers to keep their security postures strong.

Posts by Michael Sparkman

Identifying Agentic Automation with Behavioral Telemetry: Part 2

August 27, 2026Michael Sparkman and Daniel McAndrew

Akamai research reveals how behavioral embeddings and mouse telemetry uncover sparse AI agent traffic that traditional bot detection misses.

Identifying Agentic Automation with Behavioral Telemetry

August 19, 2026Michael Sparkman and Daniel McAndrew

Learn how Akamai uses Masked Autoencoder Transformer models to detect sparse behavioral telemetry from autonomous AI browser agents, such as Comet.