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David C. Wilkins
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David Wilkins is an academic and entrepreneur. His main interest for the past eleven years has been creating innovative learning environments to improve emotion recognition and expression for Autism Spectrum Disorder. This work is a continuation of his career-long focus within Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science on interactive learning environments and models of human learning. David's research is multi-disciplinary. For decades, all of his research grants, over $9M, have had faculty Co-Principal Investigators from the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, Psychiatry, Linguistics, Drama, and Art. Since 2012, David has been the CEO and Founder of Lemotion Therapeutics, which focuses on the creation and validation of learning environments to improve emotion recognition and expression for autistic and neurotypical persons. From 2001-2011,
David held affiliations at Stanford
University. He had a faculty appointment as a Lecturer in the
Symbolic Systems
Program, where his five research grants and teaching
have focused on the topic of
Learning Facial
Emotions for Autism. He had an appointment as a Senior
Researcher in the Computational Learning Laboratory at the Center for the Study of Language and
Information (CSLI). David served on a faculty advisory committee of the Stanford Institute for
Creativity in the Arts (SiCa). He had an appointment as a Visiting Scholar
while on sabbatical at Stanford during the 2001-2002 academic year. From 1988 to 2005, David was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (3 years of this time resident at Stanford), with faculty appointments in Computer Science, Psychology, the Beckman Institute, the Aviation Institute, the Center for Advanced Study, and the Campus Honors Program. He was the Director of the Knowledge Based Systems Group. David received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1987. His Ph.D. dissertation research was carried out in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University between 1982-1987.
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