Daniel H. Wilson

Daniel H. Wilson (born March 6, 1978) is a Cherokee citizen and novelist. Several of his books have been on the New York Times bestsellers list. of techno-thrillers such as Robopocalypse, The Andromeda Evolution, and How to Survive a Robot Uprising. Formerly, he worked as a television host and robotics engineer.

Early life, family and education Daniel H. Wilson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the elder of two children. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Daniel H. Wilson in conversation with Nisi Shawl at the Seattle Library on Oct. 16, 2025. Wilson attended Booker T. Washington High School, graduating in 1996. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Tulsa in 2000, spending one semester studying philosophy abroad in Melbourne, Australia at the University of Melbourne. He completed an M.S. in Robotics, another M.S. in Machine Learning, and his PhD in Robotics in 2005 at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His thesis, Assistive Intelligent Environments for Automatic Health Monitoring, focused on providing automatic location and activity monitoring in the home via low-cost sensors such as motion detectors and contact switches. He has worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, the Xerox PARC, Northrop Grumman, and Intel Research Seattle.