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Pamela Wisniewski

Associate Professor, Computer Science
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Human-Computer interaction, Adolescent online safety, Co-design


Dr. Wisniewski is an Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and Flowers Family Faculty Fellow in Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She is an expert in the interplay between social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents. She has authored over 150 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. 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 combatting the online sexual exploitation of children, and most recently, the White House’s Biden-Harris Task Force on Kids Online Health and Safety.