Damien Williams

Education: Ph.D. Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech; MS Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech

Courses Taught: Modeling and Society DTSC 2301/2302

Biography:

Damien Patrick Williams is an assistant professor in Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A Ph.D. in Science, Technology, and Society, from Virginia Tech in the United States, Damien researches how technologies such as algorithms, machine intelligence, and biotechnologies are impacted by the values, knowledge systems, philosophical explorations, social structures, and even religious beliefs of human beings. He is especially concerned with how the knowledge and experience of marginalized people affect the technosocial structures of human societies.