Pamela Wisniewski

Dr. Wisniewski is the Founder and Director of the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab and Teenovate. Her work lies at the intersection of Social Computing and Privacy. She is an expert in the interplay between social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents. She has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and won multiple best papers (top 1%) and best paper honorable mentions (top 5%) at ACM SIGCHI conferences. She has been awarded $6.04 million in external grant funding, including the NSF CAREER Award, and her research has been featured by popular news media outlets, including Scientific American, CNN, ABC News, NPR, Psychology Today, and U.S. News and World Report. She is an ACM Senior Member, Computing Research Association (CRA) CCC Council Member, and the first ever computer scientist to be selected as a William T. Grant Scholar for her work on reducing digital inequality in youth outcomes. The importance of her work on adolescent online safety has been recognized nationally and internationally by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Netherland’s Down to Zero Alliance on combating the online sexual exploitation of children, and most recently, the White House’s Biden-Harris Task Force on Kids Online Health and Safety.