This year marks the fifth cohort of the iSchool's Postdoctoral Research Associate Program. The program prepares candidates for tenure-track assistant professor or other appointments inside and outside of academia. The iSchool welcomed five new postdocs in the 2025–2026 academic year.
New postdocs and their research interests include:
- Bogeum Choi, PhD in Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Information behavior, human-computer interaction, interactive information retrieval, search as learning, and health informatics. - Ece Gumusel, PhD in Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington
Intersection of usable privacy and security in human-computer interaction, with a particular focus on conversational AI and regulatory compliance. - Edwin (Teddy) Roland, PhD in English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
Digital humanities and new media studies, history and theory of machine learning, computational literary study, AI applications in humanities research and teaching, and contemporary American literature. - Tian Wang, PhD in Informatics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Privacy in AI and IoT, privacy policies and frameworks, user-centered privacy, user behaviors and perceptions in digital privacy, social media, and AI governance. - Qiqi Xie, MD, Nanchang University, Jiangxi, China
Multi-agent artificial intelligence for complex biomedical problems, large-scale transcriptomics data analysis, cellular systems behavior, and disease modeling.
They join current postdocs Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral, Hyanghee Park, and Cheeno Marlo Sayuno.
Each postdoc is assigned to an iSchool faculty mentor, who provides guidance and support for their area of study. In addition to developing their research agendas, postdocs teach up to one course per semester and serve on at least one service committee in the iSchool.
Postdocs participate in workshops and training opportunities offered by the iSchool Research Services and in connection with the Doctoral ProSeminar (IS 529). Topics include applying for grants, building a scholarly profile, and crafting a professional portfolio for the job market.
