Steve Wilson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Steve ϵ CoCoA Lab ⊂ CIT ⊂ UM-Flint ⊂ University of Michigan
I study online communication using Natural Language Processing methods with a focus on understanding and incorporating the social context of text data and the people who create it. Some of my current interests are information literacy, social media narratives, social norms, and educational applications of NLP.
PhD, University of Michigan, LIT Lab. 〽️ Go Blue!
Postdoc, SMASH group, University of Edinburgh 🏰
Formerly, Assistant Prof at Oakland University 🐻
Prospective graduate students: I am not accepting new PhD students for Fall 2025.
News
📰 [Nov-29-24]
"Cross-Domain Classification of Education Talk-Turns" by Achyut Ganti, Steve Wilson, and Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie will appear at COLING 2025
📰 [Oct-22-24]
"How developments in natural language processing help us in understanding human behaviour" by Rada Mihalcea, Laura Biester, Ryan L. Boyd, Zhijing Jin, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Steven Wilson & James W. Pennebaker published in Nature Human Behavior
🚀 [Oct-01-24]
CRII: Discovery, generation, and impact of social media user framing of current events awarded by NSF!
🧑🏫 [Aug-28-24]
Teaching a new course at UM-Flint for Fall 2024: Machine Learning!
💼 [Aug-20-24]
Started a new position as an Assistant Professor in the College of Innovation & Technology at the University of Michigan-Flint!
Publications
See Google Scholar for a mostly up-to-date list of publications.
Teaching
I usually teach NLP, ML, and related courses. See my department profile for current/past courses taught at UM-Flint or my CV for a full list of courses taught throughout my career.