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Matthew Wilkens is an Associate Professor in Information Science at Cornell Bowers University, where he also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. He utilizes quantitative computational methods to study large-scale developments in literary cultural history. His work focuses on literary text mining, geolocation extraction, and genre detection, as well as the cross-pollination of critical social scientific methods. Wilkens seeks to develop and apply natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques to large-scale datasets across domains such as medicine, public health, economics, and law. He directs several innovative projects including the AI Humanists project and the Textual Geographies project, and he is a co-investigator on the AI Cultural Historical Reasoning project and the Text Mining Novel projects. Wilkens is also a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Cultural Analytics, and he has authored the book "Gender and Literary Geography" with Elizabeth Evans. Previously, he taught at the University of Notre Dame as the Ruth Paul Idzik Associate Professor of Digital Scholarship, and he has experience at Wayne State University.
Department of Computer Science - PhD program focus on research leadership.