Shomir Wilson

Shomir Wilson

Assistant Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Shomir Wilson
Departments
Informatics
Social Data Analytics

Professional Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, where I lead the Human Language Technologies Lab.I am also a Faculty Affiliate of Penn State's Institute for CyberScience and a member of the faculty of the Graduate School.

My research spans natural language processing, privacy, and artificial intelligence. I participate in the Usable Privacy Policy Project. You can read more about my research interests.

From 2016 until 2018 I was an Assistant Professor in the EECS Department at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to that I was a postdoc and a lecturer in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and an NSF International Research Fellow in the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2011.