Faculty

Masooda Bashir

Associate 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

Professor, MS/IM Program Director, 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, MS/LIS and CAS Program Director

PhD, American Literature, SUNY Buffalo

Research focus: Publishing, scholarly communication, networked communication, the economics of information, open culture, and next generation librarianship.

Nigel Bosch

Assistant Professor

PhD, Computer Science, University of Notre Dame

Research focus: Learning analytics, user modeling, fairness and transparency in machine learning.

Anita Say Chan

Associate Professor

PhD, History and Anthropology of Science and Technology Studies, MIT

Research focus: Science and technology studies, globalization and innovation economies, critical data studies, feminist and decolonial approaches to technology, data ethics and cultures.

Jessie Chin

Assistant Professor

PhD, Educational Psychology, Illinois

Research focus: Adaptive cognitive process, Information foraging, human-computer interaction, coupling cognitive systems, health communication, health literacy, health informatics, and designing for health and aging.

Inkyung Choi

Teaching Assistant Professor

PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Research focus: Knowledge organization, library classification, classification on the web, user-oriented approach, comparative cultural studies, and intercultural communication.

Sharon Comstock

Teaching Assistant Professor

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Application of asset-based principles and Community of Inquiry (CoI) theory in mixed-methods outcomes-based design and evaluation in formal and informal learning environments; attendant information behaviors as necessary collective-impact infrastructure, focusing on those that benefit young people and the complex systems in which they navigate and create.

Ryan Cordell

Associate Professor

PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Virginia

Research focus: Book history, book arts, print culture, bibliography, digital humanities, text and data mining, machine learning, and critical making.

Sarah Park Dahlen

Associate Professor

PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Research focus: Children's and young adult literature, Asian American youth literature, youth services librarianship, transracial Asian adoption, and diversity in the information profession.

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

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, crisis informatics, impact assessment.

J. Stephen Downie

Professor, Associate Dean for Research, and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center

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.

Jingrui He

Associate Professor

PhD, Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University

Research focus: Designing, building, and testing a suite of automated and semi-automated methods to explore, understand, characterize, and predict real-world data by means of statistical machine learning.

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.

David Hopping

Teaching Assistant Professor and Workforce Development/Continuing Education Director

PhD, Sociology, Illinois

Research focus: Social and community informatics, sociological theory of human rights, relational sociology, and action research and public policy relating to digital inclusion and digital literacy.

Yun Huang

Assistant Professor

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

Research focus: Human-computer interaction, social computing, mobile computing, computer supported cooperative work, human-AI interaction, conversational agents, social media, and crowdsourcing.

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.

Halil Kilicoglu

Associate Professor

PhD, Computer Science, Concordia University

Research focus: Biomedical informatics, natural language processing, computational semantics, literature-based knowledge discovery, scholarly communication, science of science, and scientific reproducibility.

Emily Knox

Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

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.

Zoe LeBlanc

Assistant Professor

PhD, History, Vanderbilt University

Research focus: Digital humanities and digital history; cultural heritage and digital libraries; histories of information and data; anti-colonial and postcolonial histories; and cultural analytics and computational social science.

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; history of visualization practices; manuscript studies; book history; history of science; medieval and early modern collecting; history of archives and libraries; information history; aesthetics of information.

Kate McDowell

Associate Professor

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.

Jill Naiman

Teaching Assistant Professor

PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research focus: Data visualization, scientific digitization with machine learning methods, image processing.

Melissa Ocepek

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

Teaching Associate Professor and Acting BS/IS Program Director

PhD, Sociology, Illinois

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

Allen Renear

Professor and Special Advisor for Strategic Initiatives (Office of the Provost)

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.

Madelyn Sanfilippo

Assistant Professor

PhD, Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington

Research focus: Governance in sociotechnical systems as designed, practiced, and experienced; evaluating technology governance outcomes; social inequality in experiences with technology; information law, policy, and inequality; social aspects of privacy, data, platforms, and personalization; and social informatics

Eunice E. Santos

Professor and Dean

PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

Research focus: Computational social science with an appreciation for the social and human aspects of the information sciences; computationally intensive methods to understand the behavior of social networks and communities with insights related to community resilience, disaster response, and belief and opinion change.

Jodi Schneider

Assistant Professor

PhD, Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway

Research focus: Controversies in science; science of science; argumentation and evidence; biomedical informatics; knowledge organization; linked data (ontologies, metadata, Semantic Web)

Sara L. Schwebel

Professor and Director, The Center for Children's Books

PhD, History of American Civilization, Harvard University

Research focus: Children's and young adult literature, history of education and literacy, history of childhood, history pedagogy, public history, digital humanities, and historical fiction

JooYoung Seo

Assistant Professor

PhD, Learning, Design, and Technology, Pennsylvania State University

Research focus: Accessible computing/data science, ability design human-computer interaction, inclusive Learning Sciences/STEM+C education across dis/abilities, and accessible health informatics.

Linda C. Smith

Professor Emerita, Interim 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.

Yoo-Seong Song

Associate Professor

MSI, University of Michigan; MBA, University of Iowa

Research focus: Knowledge management, business information, consulting, and experiential learning for information professionals.

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.

Kevin Trainor

Senior Lecturer

MBA, The University of Chicago

Research focus: Common elements of story-based techniques as used in systems analysis, interaction design, agile software development, and data science storytelling; adaptability of modern software development methods (like design patterns, version control, continuous integration, pair programming and test-driven development) to the needs of data science practitioners.

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 PhD 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.

Dong Wang

Associate Professor

PhD, Computer Science, Illinois

Research focus: Social (Human-centric) sensing, computing and intelligence; human-centered AI; big data analytics; reliable information distillation systems; human-cyber-physical systems; edge computing; Internet of Things/Everything (IoT/IoE); and smart cities.

Yang Wang

Associate Professor

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

Research focus: Usable privacy/security, data-driven privacy/security, inclusive design, explainable AI, human-computer interaction, social computing, ubiquitous computing, computer-supported cooperative work.

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: Information organization; metadata and knowledge organization systems; data curation; and conceptual and logical foundations of information systems.

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, critical constructivist approaches to design justice and rapid prototyping.