Jason Wilson
Assistant Professor at Barnstorm Research Corporation
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJason Wilson is an assistant professor and researcher with eight years of postdoctoral and academic experience and a long track record in industry research and software engineering. He bridges AI and cognitive science, holding a joint PhD in Computer Science & Cognitive Science from Tufts and applying human-centric design to socially assistive robotics and human–robot rapport. His background includes applied research at BAE Systems and PARC on qualitative reasoning and collaborative cognition, and practical software architecture roles earlier in his career. At Franklin & Marshall College he combines teaching broad audiences in computer science and AI with ongoing visiting scholarship at Barnstorm Research Corporation. Colleagues rely on him for translating cognitive theory into deployable systems—evident in projects like medication-sorting robots and affect-informed decision-making models. Based in Pennsylvania, he brings a rare blend of classroom pedagogy, lab-driven experimentation, and production-oriented engineering.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteJoint PhD, Computer Science & Cognitive Science, Joint PhD, Computer Science & Cognitive Science at Tufts UniversityNone, Computer Science, None, Computer Science at Northwestern University
English
Github Skills (21)
multimodal-interactions9
integrate7
multimodal7
streaming7
component-library6
nodejs6
artificial-intelligence6
stream-processing5
speech-recognition5
computer-vision5
perception5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
dotnet5
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kzcawareness/Awareness-Project
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:44 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
FandM-CARES/sarBehaviorGen
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 months
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