Jiangping Chen

2023-2024 Co-Chairs, ALISE Council of Deans, Directors, and Chairs

• Regents Professor, University of North Texas, 2024
• Outstanding Department Award, University of North Texas, 2022
• LIBINF Top 10 Cited Article (IF 2019-2020), ELSEVIER, 2022
• Star Performer Award, University of North Texas, 2021
• Recognition of Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018
• ISI/ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award, 2003

Dr. Chen is currently the interim executive associate dean and visiting professor at the iSchool. Before joining UIUC in August 2024, she was Regents professor and the chair of the Department of Information Science in the College of Information at the University of North Texas (UNT). She conducts interdisciplinary research, spanning information science, data science, and health informatics. She is the founder of UNT's Intelligent Information Access (IIA) Lab, which explores methods for access, interaction, and analysis of large, distributed, heterogeneous, multimedia, and multilingual information. 

Her professional contributions include authoring numerous publications, including a monograph on multilingual digital libraries,  journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings as well as giving invited presentations and talks. She served as the editor-in-chief for The Electronic Library for seven years and as chair of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in 2018. Dr. Chen holds a PhD in information transfer from Syracuse University, a master's degree in information science from the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a bachelor's degree in information science from Wuhan University.

Selected publications

Ogbadu-Oladapo, L., Chung, H., Li, J., & Chen, J. (2023). An investigation of the use of theories in misinformation studies. Proceedings of 2023 annual conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, London, UK, October 27-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.790.

Nguyen, H., Ogbadu-Oladapo, L., Irhamni, A., Chen, H., & Chen, J. (2023). Fighting misinformation: where are we and where to go? Proceedings of iConference 2023, Barcelona, Spain, March 27-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_27.

Wu, A. & Chen, J. (2022). Sustaining multilinguality: case studies of two multilingual digital libraries. The Electronic Library, 40(6), 625-645. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-03-2022-0061.

Chen, H., Wu, L., Lu, W., Chen, J., & Ding, J. (2022). A comparative study of automated legal text classification using random forests and deep learning. Information Processing and Management, 59(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102798.

Chen, H., Nguyen, H., & Chen, J. (2021). Demystifying COVID-19 publications: researchers, topics, diseases, and therapeutics. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 109(3), 395-405. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2021.1141.

Chen, J. (2020). Beyond information organization and evaluation: how can information scientists contribute to independent thinking. Data and Information Management, 4(3), 171-176. https://doi.org/10.2478/dim-2020-0017.

Wang, C., Huang, R., Li, J., & Chen, J. (2020). Towards better information services: A framework for immigrant information needs and library services. Library and Information Science Research, 42(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2019.101000.

Brenda, R., Knudson, R., Chen, J., Cao, G., & Wang, X. (2018). Metadata records machine translation combining multi-engine outputs with limited parallel data. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 69(1), 47-59, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23925.

Chen, J. 2016. Multilingual Access And Services For Digital Collections. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. https://www.amazon.com/Multilingual-Access-Services-Digital-Collections/dp/1440839549.