Richard Wicentowski

Richard Wicentowski is a Professor of Computer Science at Swarthmore College. His research focuses on computational linguistics, including computational morphology, semantic disambiguation, and sentiment analysis. He teaches courses like CS 65 (Natural Language Processing) and CS 21 (Introduction to Computer Science).

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2002
• M.S., Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1995
• B.S., Computer Science, Rutgers University, 1993

Wicentowski’s research spans Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Medical Informatics, and Computer Science Education. He has developed systems for sentiment classification using Twitter data, emotion detection in clinical texts, and cross-lingual lexical substitution. His work bridges machine learning with linguistics and health informatics.

Recent publications highlight trends in sentiment analysis (2015–2025), medical text mining (2006–2012), and educational innovation (2005–2015). He has collaborated with students on NLP projects and explored diversity in computing education in 2025.

Wicentowski advises students through co-authorship in projects like SWATCS65 and SWATAC. Notable collaborations include courses on machine learning and image processing (2005).