Shomir Wilson

Background

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland. I received my M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2008. I received my B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics and my B.A. in Philosophy at Virginia Tech in 2005.

Contact Information

Curriculum Vitae

A condensed version of my CV can be viewed here.

Research

I work with Prof. Donald Perlis in the active logic research group. My research interests include logic-based artificial intelligence, commonsense reasoning, metareasoning, and natural language processing.

I also have interests in the philosophy of artificial intelligence and philosophy of language.

Teaching

I was a grading TA for CMSC 212 (Introduction to Low-Level Programming Concepts) in Fall 2005 and a discussion section TA for the same class in Spring 2006.

Papers and Publications

Matt Schmill, Tim Oates, Michael L. Anderson, Darsana Josyula, Don Perlis, Shomir Wilson, and Scott Fults. The role of metacognition in robust AI systems. In Papers from the Workshop on Metareasoning at the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.

Michael L. Anderson, Scott Fults, Darsana P. Josyula, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, Matthew D. Schmill, Shomir Wilson, and Dean Wright. A self-help guide for autonomous systems. AI Magazine, 2008.

Darsana Josyula, Scott Fults, Michael L. Anderson, Shomir Wilson, and Don Perlis. Application of MCL in a dialog agent. In Papers from the Third Language and Technology Conference, 2007.

Michael L. Anderson, Matt Schmill, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, Darsana Josyula, Dean Wright, and Shomir Wilson. Toward domain-neutral human-level metacognition. In Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, 2007.

Matt Schmill, Darsana Josyula, Michael L. Anderson, Shomir Wilson, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, and Scott Fults. Ontologies for reasoning about failures in AI systems. In Proceedings from the Workshop on Metareasoning in Agent Based Systems at the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Sytems, 2007.

T. M. Murali, Corban Rivera, Rob St. Clair, and Shomir Wilson. Robust and scalable comparative whole-genome function annotation systems. Technical report, Virginia Tech, 2005.

Shomir Wilson. Wittgenstein takes the turing test. In Papers from the First Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Northwestern University, 2005.

Shomir Wilson. Evaluation of functional-linkage networks applied to protein annotation. Honors thesis for computer science, 2005.

Shomir Wilson. The pathological liar: An exclusionary approach to self-referential contradictions in natural language. Aporia, 2004.

Shomir Wilson. Construction of a crystal graph simulation engine. Honors thesis for mathematics, 2004.

Presentations

The Role of Metacognition in Robust AI Systems, at the Workshop on Metareasoning at the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2008), Chicago, IL.

Application of MCL in a Dialog Agent, at the Third Language and Technology Conference (2007), Poznan, Poland.

Wittgenstein Takes the Turing Test, at the First Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Northwestern University (2005), Evanston, IL.