Faculty

Steven Bethard

Associate Professor

Advisor, M.S. Information

• Natural language processing
• Machine learning
• Information extraction models

Ren Bozgeyikli

Assistant Professor

• Game development
• Human-computer interaction
• Virtual/mixed reality

Lila Bozgeyikli

Assistant Professor

• Extended reality
• Game development
• Human-computer interaction

Sarah Bratt

Assistant Professor

• Research data management
• Scientometrics & Metadata
• Community data archives

Catherine Brooks

iSchool Director and Professor

Founder, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies

• Instructional communication
• Online collaboration
• Language use & identity

Winslow Burleson

Professor

• Human Computer Interaction
• Learning Sciences
• Health Science Design

Daniel Charbonneau

Assistant Professor of Practice

• Social insect / complex system behavior
• Biostatistics
• Applied data mining / data engineering

Hong Cui

Professor

• Biodiversity informatics
• Machine learning
• Software usability

Diana Daly

Associate Professor

Director, Undergraduate and Individual Studies

• Social media
• Digital Culture
• Qualitative research methods

Martin H. Frické

Professor

• Logic and librarianship
• Cryptotechnologies
• Big data

Charles Gomez

Assistant Professor

• Computational and Mathematical Sociology
• Global Science and Knowledge
• Hierarchies/Diffusion/Diversity

Bryan Heidorn

Professor

Director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies

• Text mining
• Data curation
• Biodiversity informatics

Peter Jansen

Assistant Professor

• Natural language processing
• Artificial intelligence
• Cognitive science

Andrew Kemp-Wilcox

Assistant Professor of Practice

• Narrative Design
• Videogame Industries
• Game Phenomenology

Cheryl Knott

Professor

• Information access
• Print culture history

Jamie A. Lee

Associate Professor

• Archival Studies
• Storytelling/Digital Storytelling & Oral History
• Theory of the Body/Embodiment

Laura Ruth Lenhart

Associate Professor

Graduate Certificates

• Digital media ethics
• History of publishing

Zack Lischer-Katz

Assistant Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

• Curation/Preservation of Visual Information
• 3D Data and Virtual Reality
• Qualitative-interpretive Research Methods

Berlin Loa

Assistant Professor of Practice

Knowledge River Program Manager

• Museums and archives
• Collections management
• Taskscapes of cultural heritage & public memory

Barney Maccabe

Professor

• Development of system software for massively parallel and distributed systems
• High-Performance Computing Applications
• Artificial intelligence

Clayton Morrison

Associate Professor

• Machine learning
• Probabilistic modeling
• Causal inference

Jennifer Rochelle

Assistant Professor of Practice

Coordinator and Advisor for M.A. LIS

• Law and technology
• IP/Copyright
• Social justice

Cristian Roman Palacios

Assistant Professor of Practice

Coordinator and Advisor for M.S. Data Science

• Phylogenetics and biodiversity drivers
• Paleoclimatic reconstructions and climate change
• Applied data mining and machine learning

Carla Stoffle

Professor

• Management
• Organizational change
• Funding libraries

Andrea Thomer

Assistant Professor

• Natural History Collections
• Knowledge Infrastructures
• Information Organization

Meaghan Wetherell

Assistant Professor of Practice

• Data Science
• Science communication
• Paleontology