Craig Evans has assumed the position of senior research programmer for GSLIS Research Services. Evans holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Wollongong and completed graduate-level coursework at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) in the engineering program. His research interests include online environments and human computer interface issues.
Evans’s career includes extensive experience in industry. He spent 13 years with a global mineral and manufacturing company, holding a variety of positions in software engineering and information technology business consulting. In the early 2000s, he worked for a startup company as a software engineer, writing web scraping tools and designing interfaces to display data on the precursor to today’s smartphones.
With his move to GSLIS, Evans is returning to his software engineering roots and working as a research programmer. He will be providing software engineering and technical consulting to faculty in support of the grants on which they are working, and his time will be spent on a multitude of projects that span the research interests of faculty.
In the fall, Evans will begin coursework toward a doctorate in informatics through the Illinois Informatics Institute at the University of Illinois. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and playing the banjo.