Pamela Wisniewski
Non-Resident Fellow, Algorithmic Fairness And Opacity (AFOG) Working Group at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolPamela Wisniewski is a human-centered computing researcher and principal scientist with nine years of experience at the intersection of privacy, adolescent online safety, and algorithmic fairness. She directs the Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab and holds fellowships and advisory roles with UC Berkeley’s AFOG group, DARPA ISAT, and the Center for Democracy & Technology, blending academic rigor with policy impact. Her career spans tenured faculty appointments and leadership in computing community organizations, reflecting a strong track record of translating empirical research into actionable recommendations for technology governance. Pamela combines deep technical roots—dating back to early software and systems roles—with a PhD in Computing and Information Systems, giving her both engineering fluency and social-science grounding. Based in Orlando, she is known for bridging stakeholder perspectives across industry, government, and youth communities to tackle opaque algorithmic harms. A longtime tech enthusiast with lasting myopia from early screen time, she brings a personal stake to research on online youth experiences.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computing and Information Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computing and Information Systems at University of North Carolina at CharlotteHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Pinellas Park High SchoolMaster's degree Decision & Information Sciences, Master's degree Decision & Information Sciences at University of Florida
Github Skills (15)
spring-data10
spring-security10
spring10
java10
spring-boot10
scene5
gwt4
javafx4
designer4
css4
fxml4
layout4
drag3
iot1
water1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kpamela/IEEE-Compact-Biome
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
raspberry-pipythoncompactbiomeraspberry
kpamela/SumoBot-2017
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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