Craig Evans

Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Pronouns: he/him

Room 303, 501 E. Daniel St.

(217) 300-3839

csevans2@illinois.edu

Other professional appointments

FAA Certificated Part 107 Pilot

Research focus

Focused on educating undergraduates in the use and application of database technologies, and professional development. Additional interest in social network analysis and unmanned aviation systems.

Biography

Before returning to academe, Craig Evans had over 25 years of experience working in global corporations of 60,000 people, mid-sized corps of 500 people, and a startup that came out of a university project and founded a drone operations business. He has worked in a breadth of industries as well—primarily in IT/consulting roles, but in a range of domains including heavy manufacturing, mining, financial services, government, drone services (current), and even flipped burgers (high school). During that time, he realized the importance of the underlying data in varying fields, and the insight gained from aggregating data is far more valuable than the individual data points. His graduate work focused on social network analysis, which deepened his appreciation of databases and data structures.

Courses currently teaching

Publications & Papers

Evans, CS., Rezapour, R., Jiang, M. & Diesner, J. (2016). Interplay Between Dominant
Personality Traits with Tie Formation in a Corporate Communication Network. INSNA Sunbelt XXXVI. Newport Beach, CA.

Diesner, J, & Evans, CS (2015). Little bad concerns: Using sentiment analysis to assess structural balance in communication networks. 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks

Diesner, J, Evans, CS, & Kim, J (2015). Impact of entity disambiguation errors on social network properties. Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Evans, C. S. (2014). Wiki as a Platform-Turning Dissemination into Collaboration. Proceedings of iConference 2014, March 2014, Berlin, Germany.

Pazzani, M (2003). Adaptive interfaces for ubiquitous web access. International Conference on User Modeling, 1

Billsus, D., Brunk, C.A., Evans, C., Gladish, B., and Pazzani, M. (2002). Adaptive interfaces for ubiquitous web, Communications of The ACM, May 2002, Vol 45, No 5. pg 34-38.

Presentations

Evans, CS., (2022). More Than a Snapshot – Adding Temporality to Social Network Analysis 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science, July 2022, Chicago, IL, USA.

Evans, CS. & Diesner, J. (2016). Impact and Stability of Personal Ethics and Structural Balance in a Communication Network Over Time. 2nd International Conference on Computational Social Science, June 2016, Evanston, IL, USA.

Evans, CS., Diesner, J., & Blake, C (2015). Email Data Analysis: An Alternate Lens into Historical Events. HASTAC 2015. May 2015, Lansing, Michigan, USA.

Smith, Brittany N.; Lugya, Fredrick K.; Evans, Craig, (2013) Learning focused search in an online social network community, Social Media Expo Poster at iConference 2013, Feb 2013, Dallas, TX, USA.

In the News

Evans joins the School October 18 2024

iSchool instructors ranked as excellent September 13 2022