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Shlomo Argamon

Also known as Shlomo Engelson Argamon, Shlomo Argamon-Engelson

Shlomo Argamon is a computer scientist and computational linguist who applies machine learning to writing style and authorship. After a Carnegie Mellon degree in applied mathematics and a Yale Ph.D. in 1994, he joined the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2002. With Moshe Koppel and others, he showed that word usage can reveal an author's age, sex, native language and personality type, and in December 2014 he told NPR about his linguistic analysis of the Sony Pictures hack. He founded the Master of Data Science program in 2013, became a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2014, and chaired the computer science department from 2019 to 2023. Since January 2024, he is Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence at Touro University, where he is also Dean of the Graduate School of Technology and a professor of computer science.

Now at
Touro University
Born
1967
Works
161
Citations
6,613
h-index
35
Badges

Years link to their sources. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1988–1996

    Yale Ph.D. and Fulbright fellowship

    He earns a B.Sc. in applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon in 1988 and a Ph.D. in computer science at Yale in 1994, supervised by Drew McDermott, with a Hertz Foundation doctoral fellowship from 1991 to 1994. He then spends 1994–1996 as a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, working with Sarit Kraus.

  2. 2002

    Joining Illinois Tech

    After teaching at Bar-Ilan and at the Jerusalem College of Technology, he joins the computer science faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2002.

  3. 2009–2010

    Author profiling and two books

    Since the late 1990s, he works mainly on computational linguistics and machine learning, and with Moshe Koppel and others he shows that statistical analysis of word usage can determine an author's age, sex, native language and personality type with high accuracy in English-language texts. In 2009, he coauthors "Automatically profiling the author of an anonymous text" in Communications of the ACM with Koppel, James W. Pennebaker and Jonathan Schler. He edits Computational Methods for Counterterrorism in 2009 and The Structure of Style in 2010.

  4. 2013

    Founding a data science program

    He founds the Illinois Tech Master of Data Science program in 2013.

  5. 2014

    British Computer Society Fellow

    In September 2014, the British Computer Society elects him a Fellow for his contributions to computational stylistics and machine learning. He is also the 2014 Distinguished Visitor in Forensic Linguistics at the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University in Birmingham.

  6. December 2014

    Linguistic analysis of the Sony hack

    In December 2014, he analyzes publicly available messages from the Sony Pictures cyber-attack, comparing their writing style with four candidate native languages: Korean, Mandarin Chinese, German and Russian. He tells NPR that his preliminary results show only weak consistency with Korean and make Russian far more likely.

  7. 2019–2023

    Computer science chair at Illinois Tech

    He becomes interim chair of Illinois Tech's Department of Computer Science in 2019 and is named chair in June 2020, as the new College of Computing launches. He serves as department chair until 2023.

  8. Since January 2024

    Associate provost for AI at Touro

    In January 2024, Touro University appoints him as the nation's first Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, a newly created role leading university-wide policies and programs that bring AI into all of its 30-plus programs. He is also Dean of the Graduate School of Technology and a professor of computer science.

Career

  1. Since 2024Touro UniversityAssociate Provost for Artificial Intelligence; Dean of the Graduate School of Technology; Professor of Computer Science
  2. 2014Aston UniversityDistinguished Visitor in Forensic Linguistics
  3. 2002–2023Illinois Institute of TechnologyFaculty, Chair
  4. 1999–2000Jerusalem College of TechnologyTeacher
  5. 1994–1996Bar-Ilan UniversityFulbright postdoctoral fellow

Education

  1. 1994Yale UniversityPh.D. in Computer Science
  2. 1988Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.Sc. in Applied Mathematics

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging2005 · National Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 590 citations
  2. Using appraisal groups for sentiment analysis2005 · ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) · 566 citations
  3. Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts2003 · Text and Talk · 559 citations
  4. Computational methods in authorship attribution2008 · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 523 citations
  5. Justify your alpha2018 · Nature Human Behaviour · 478 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Illinois Institute of Technology. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Illinois Institute of Technology. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Illinois Institute of Technology. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Bar-Ilan University. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Shlomo Engelson Argamon, PhD ai.touro.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Shlomo Argamon - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Touro University Announces New Associate Provost for AI touro.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. IIT Professor of Computer Science Shlomo Argamon Elected Fellow of the British Computer Society today.iit.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Doubts Persist On U.S. Claims Of North Korean Role In Sony Hack npr.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Argamon Named Interim Chair of Computer Science iit.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Shlomo Argamon Named Chair of Illinois Tech's Department of Computer Science iit.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Faculty and Staff | Touro GST gst.touro.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.