Tyler Shoemaker is a Postdoctoral Scholar affiliated with the DataLab at the University of California, Davis. At the DataLab, Tyler develops and implements methods for text analysis and natural language processing across a variety of research projects, ranging from literary studies to environmental and health sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he completed a dissertation on the history, theory, materiality, and art of machine reading.

Tyler was a teaching assistant for the GLP's inaugural "Proseminar: Grants and Fellowships Applications Workshop." In this capacity, he facilitated workshop sessions and served as a peer reviewer for numerous application dossiers.