Willie Wilson
Assistant Professor at Franklin & Marshall College
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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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 (23)
integrate9
multimodal-interactions9
multimodal7
streaming7
stream-processing6
component-library6
nodejs6
perception6
python6
dotnet6
artificial-intelligence6
computer-vision5
machine-learning5
deep-learning4
ai4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FandM-CARES/sarBehaviorGen
Jul 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
FandM-CARES/psiDeepSpeech
Jul 2021 - Aug 2025
\psi component for DeepSpeech
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 1 month
deep-learningpsideepspeech
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