
Shlomo Engelson Argamon, PhD
Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, AI@Touro
Professor of Computer Science

Shlomo Engelson Argamon is a computer scientist and computational linguist at Touro University, where he is a Professor of Computer Science and Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence.
Argamon currently works on authorship profiling and identification, connecting ideology and personality with language use variation, and on analyzing metaphors and what they say about how people think and how cultures structure human experience. He explores applications in intelligence analysis, forensic linguistics, biomedical informatics, and humanities scholarship. He is director of the Linguistics Cognition Laboratory. Argamon received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon (1988) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University (1994). He received a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship (1991-94), a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bar-Ilan University (1994-96), and an Israel Science Foundation Immigrant Scientist Fellowship (1999-2002).
Argamon was the 2014 Distinguished Visitor in Forensic Linguistics at the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University in Birmingham, UK, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon
- MPhil, PhD, Computer Science, Yale University
Areas of Expertise
Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, natural language processing, forensic linguistics, and higher education leadership
Publications
- Ringler, H., & Argamon, S. (2022). Telescopic Reading: Synthesizing Meaning From Reading at Different Scales. Digital Humanities, Tokyo, Japan, 339-340. Retrieved from https://touroscholar.touro.edu/president_pubs/253
- Terry, J., Lau, M. L., Sun, J., Xu, C., Hendricks, B., Kise, J., Lnu, M., Bagade, S., Shah, S., Makhijani, P., Karantha, A., Boltz, T., Oellien, M., Adas, M., Argamon, S., Long, M., & Guillen, D. P. (2021). Analysis of Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) Data Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques. Applied Surface Science, 547, 149059. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.149059
- Argamon, S. E. (2019). Register in Computational Language Research. Register Studies, 1 (1), 100-135. https://doi.org/10.1075/rs.18015.arg
- Argamon, S. (2018). It’s the Autonomy, Stupid! On Reasonable and Unreasonable Risk-Assessment of AI. Brain-Based and Artificial Intelligence: Socio-Ethical Conversations in Computing and Neurotechnology, Chicago, IL. Retrieved from https://touroscholar.touro.edu/president_pubs/214
- Argamon, S. E. (2018). Computational Forensic Authorship Analysis: Promises and Pitfalls. Language and Law=Linguagem e Direito, 5 (2), 7-37. Retrieved from https://touroscholar.touro.edu/president_pubs/266
- Lakens, D., Adolfi, F. G., Albers, C. J., Anvari, F., Apps, M. A., Argamon, S. E., Baguley, T., Becker, R. B., Benning, S. D., Bradford, D. E., Buchanan, E. M., Caldwell, A. R., Van Calster, B., Carlsson, R., Chen, S., Chung, B., Colling, L. J., Collins, G. S., Crook, Z., Cross, E. S., Daniels, S., Danielsson, H., DeBruine, L., Dunleavy, D. J., Earp, B. D., Feist, M. I., Ferrell, J. D., Field, J. G., Fox, N. W., Friesen, A., Gomes, C., Gonzalez-Marquez, M., & Grange, J. A. (2018). Justify Your Alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2 (3), 168-171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x
- Dunn, J., Argamon, S., Rasooli, A., & Kumar, G. (2016). Profile-Based Authorship Analysis. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 31 (4), 689-710. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv019
In The News
- Tapping into AI across every part of the university, Campus Technology Insider
- Is AI going to transform higher education and how?, Forbes
- Nachum Segal hosts Dr. Shlomo Argamon, Touro University's New Associate Provost for AI, Nachum Segal
- Touro University announces new Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, Jewish Link