Shomir Wilson

I (he/him) am an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, where I lead the Human Language Technologies Lab. My research spans natural language processing, privacy, security, and computational social science.

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.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park (2005 — 2011)
• M.S. University of Maryland (2005 — 2008)
• B.S. Virginia Tech (2000 — 2005)
• B.A. Virginia Tech (2000 — 2005)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Penn State University (2018)
• Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati (2016 — 2018)
• Project Scientist Carnegie Mellon University (2015 — 2016)
• NSF International Research Fellow Carnegie Mellon University (2014 — 2015)
• NSF International Research Fellow The University of Edinburgh (2013 — 2014)
• Postdoctoral Associate Carnegie Mellon University (2011 — 2013)
• Graduate Research Assistant University of Maryland (2006 — 2011)
• NSF EAPSI Visiting Scholar National University of Singapore (2010 — 2010)
• NSF EAPSI Visiting Scholar Macquarie University (2009 — 2009)