Faculty

Masooda Bashir

Assistant Professor

PhD, Psychology, Purdue University

Research focus: The interface of information technology, human psychology, and society; especially how privacy, security, and trust intersect from a psychological point of view with information systems.

Catherine Blake

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship

PhD, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Research focus: Biomedical informatics, natural language processing, evidence-based discovery, learning health systems, socio-technical systems, data analytics, literature-based discovery.

Maria Bonn

Associate Professor

PhD, American Literature, SUNY Buffalo

Research focus: Publishing, scholarly communication, networked communication, the economics of information.

Nicole A. Cooke

Associate Professor and MS/LIS Program Director

PhD, Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers

Research focus: Human information behavior, particularly in an online context; diversity and social justice in librarianship; LIS education and pedagogy, particularly in the online environment; information literacy and instruction.

Peter Darch

Assistant Professor

PhD, Computer Science, Oxford

Research focus: Citizen science, information infrastructures for science, sociotechnical challenges to scientific data curation, material politics of scientific collaboration.

Jana Diesner

Associate Professor and PhD Program Director

PhD, Computation, Organizations, and Society, Carnegie Mellon

Research focus: Human-centered data science, computational social science, network science, natural language processing, machine learning, data regulations.

J. Stephen Downie

Professor and Associate Dean for Research

PhD, Library and Information Science, Western Ontario

Research focus: Design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, including multimedia music information retrieval; the political economy of internetworked communication systems; database design; Web-based technologies.

David Dubin

Teaching Associate Professor

PhD, Information Science, Pittsburgh

Research focus: The foundations of information representation and description; issues of expression and encoding in documents and digital information resources.

Les Gasser

Professor

PhD, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Research focus: Social informatics; collective, distributed, and self-organizing information systems; conceptual; foundations of information; extreme-scale distributed simulation; origins and use of information in biological systems.

Elizabeth Hoiem

Assistant Professor

PhD, English, Illinois

Research focus: Children's literature and material culture, British literature, history of education and literacy, social history, child labor, thing theory, fantasy, science fiction, science and technology in literature, automata, digital humanities pedagogy.

Lori Kendall

Associate Professor

PhD, Sociology, UC-Davis

Research focus: Personal archiving; online community and identity; social aspects of computing; research methodology; and gender and technology.

Emily Knox

Associate Professor

PhD, Communication, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers

Research focus: Information access, intellectual freedom and censorship, information ethics, information policy, print culture and reading practices.

Kyungwon Koh

Associate Professor

PhD, Library and Information Studies, Florida State University

Research focus: Digital youth, the maker movement, learning and community engagement through libraries, human information behavior, and competencies for information professionals.

Kathryn La Barre

Associate Professor

PhD, Information Science, Indiana

Research focus: Interrogating historical and contemporary naming practices and power dynamics in cultural heritage collections of films, comics and zines. Methods: Community-based participatory research and oral history.

Bertram Ludäscher

Professor and Director, Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship

PhD, Computer Science, University of Freiburg

Research focus: Data and knowledge management, specifically the modeling, design, and optimization of scientific workflows, provenance, data integration, and knowledge representation; scientific workflow systems; data curation.

Rachel M. Magee

Assistant Professor

PhD, Information Studies, Drexel

Research focus: Teens, youth, everyday life, technology use and non-use, youth services, social computing, values and design.

Bonnie Mak

Associate Professor

PhD, Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame

Research focus: Manuscript, print, and digital cultures; the production and circulation of knowledge; manuscript studies; book history; history of science; medieval and early modern collecting; history of archives and libraries.

Jerome McDonough

Associate Professor

PhD, Library and Information Studies, Berkeley

Research focus: Sociotechnical and social constructionist approaches to design and development of information systems; digital preservation and knowledge curation; metadata and information.

Kate McDowell

Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Storytelling practices and applications (in higher education, non-profits, business, and public service); youth services librarianship; children's print culture history; public libraries as cultural spaces.

Melissa Ocepek

Visiting Assistant Professor

PhD, Information Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Research focus: Everyday information behavior, information behavior, cultural theory, critical theory, food studies, leisure studies, and ethnography.

Judith Pintar

Senior Lecturer

PhD, Sociology, Illinois

Research focus: Social Informatics, interactive AI and suggestibility, developing tools to foster programming literacy through collaborative game design, interactive digital narrative, playful pedagogies, social narrative approaches to trauma and memory studies.

Allen Renear

Professor and Dean

PhD, Philosophy, Brown

Research focus: Development of formal ontologies for scientific and cultural objects and the application of those ontologies in information system design, scientific publishing, and data curation in the sciences and humanities.

Jodi Schneider

Assistant Professor

PhD, Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway

Research focus: Linked data (ontologies, metadata, Semantic Web); argumentation and evidence; scholarly communication; knowledge organization; computer-supported cooperative work; biomedical informatics; science of science.

Linda C. Smith

Professor and Executive Associate Dean

PhD, Information Transfer, Syracuse

Research focus: Education for library and information science, with particular attention to online pedagogy; history of information science; impact of new technologies on reference and information services.

Victoria Stodden

Associate Professor

PhD, Statistics, Stanford

Master of Legal Studies, Stanford Law School

Research focus: Enabling reproducibility in computational science, including the study of adequacy and robustness in replicated results, designing and implementing validation systems, developing standards of openness for data and code sharing, and resolving legal and policy barriers to disseminating reproducible research.

Carol Tilley

Associate Professor

PhD, Information Science, Indiana

Research focus: History of youth services librarianship, children's print culture, information inquiry and instruction in school libraries, information seeking and use, and media literacy.

Vetle Torvik

Associate Professor

PhD, Engineering Science, Louisiana State

Research focus: Mathematical optimization; computational statistics; text and data mining; literature-based discovery; bioinformatics.

Matthew Turk

Assistant Professor

PhD, Physics, Stanford University

Research focus: Data analysis and visualization, social structures of academic software communities, information transmission through software.

Michael Twidale

Professor and MS/IM Program Director

PhD, Computing, Lancaster University (UK)

Research focus: Computer-supported cooperative work; collaborative technologies in digital libraries and museums; user interface design and evaluation; open-source usability; information visualization; ubiquitous learning; social learning of technology; rapid prototyping and evaluation.

Ted Underwood

Professor

PhD, English, Cornell University

Research focus: Statistical and computational modeling of humanistic evidence; machine learning and text mining; book history; digital libraries; sociology of literature; computational social science; digital humanities.

Terry L. Weech

Associate Professor

PhD, Library Science, Illinois

Research focus: International librarianship; library and information science education; collection development; management and assessment of library services; government information resources; economics of information; intellectual freedom issues; public librarianship.

John Weible

Senior Lecturer

MS, Engineering Technology, Pittsburg State University; Certified PMP-PMI

Research focus: Entrepreneurship and commercialization; IT management; digital library systems; systems architecture and integration; applications development; database design; efficiency/performance analysis; algorithms for deductive logic puzzles; project management, especially the use of Monte Carlo simulations.

Elizabeth Wickes

Lecturer

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Data curation, research data management, research programming.

Karen Wickett

Assistant Professor

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Conceptual and logical foundations of information organization systems and artifacts.

Kate Williams

Associate Professor

PhD, Information, Michigan

Research focus: Technology use in local communities and by ordinary people; public libraries past, present, and future; social capital as a crucial resource in the information revolution.

Martin Wolske

Teaching Assistant Professor

PhD, Behavioral Neuroscience and Biopsychology, Rutgers

Research focus: Community informatics, community engagement, critical and culturally sustaining pedagogies for the information sciences, mutual shaping of social + technical information systems, social learning spaces for design thinking and rapid prototyping.