Pamela Wisniewski

Pamela Wisniewski, PhD, is a Principal Research Scientist at ICSI and Founder and Director of the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab and Teenovate. An expert in the interplay between social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents, Dr. Wisniewski’s work lies at the intersection of social computing and privacy. 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.

Previously, Dr. Wisniewski served as Associate Professor & Flowers Family Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University, Associate Professor & Associate Chair for Information Technology at the University of Central Florida, and Postdoctoral Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University. She earned her PhD in Computing and Information Systems from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Decision & Information Science from the University of Florida.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3JZB10QAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pamela-Wisniewski