Senior Lecturer
Dr Waseem Afzal is a faculty member of the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research seeks to understand the relationship between information and human behavior and focuses on 1) the role of information in shaping cognition, emotions, and feelings; and 2) the effects of information experiences on mindfulness. Dr Afzal’s research also explores the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological frameworks that can be used to advance information behavior research to address emerging economic, environmental, and health issues. https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/schools/sis/staff/profiles/lecturers/waseem-afzal https://librariesresearchgroup.csu.domains/our-researchers/waseem-afzal-phd/
Associate Professor / Director, Information Science & Technology Concentration
Naresh Agarwal is an Associate Professor and Director of the Information Science & Technology Concentration at the School of Library & Information Science at Simmons University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Naresh’s research area is information behavior and knowledge management. His book ‘Exploring Context in Information Behavior: Seeker, situation, surroundings, and shared identities’ was published by Morgan & Claypool in 2018. His upcoming book is, 'You know the glory, not the story: 25 Journeys towards Ikigai.' He has been a keynote/invited speaker at workshops and conferences in different countries, including in the U.S., Japan, France, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Naresh has held various leadership positions at ASIS&T. He was a member of its Board of Directors, Co-Chaired its Annual Meeting in 2017, and was awarded the James M. Cretsos Leadership Award in 2012. In 2020, he was elected as the President-elect of ASIS&T. You can learn more about him at http://web.simmons.edu/~agarwal. Social media links: https://twitter.com/nareshag https://www.linkedin.com/in/nareshag/ https://www.facebook.com/nareshag https://www.instagram.com/nareshag.paintings/
Professor & Director
Denise Agosto is Professor in the College of Computing & Informatics at Drexel University, where she serves as Director of the Master’s of Science in Information program and as Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Libraries, Information & Society. Her research investigates how young people use information and information technologies, and the role of social context in shaping their multifaceted information practices. Social Medial Links: Twitter: @DeniseEAgosto Medium: https://medium.com/@august4294 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denise.agosto
Assistant Professor
Seyram Avle is Assistant Professor of Global Digital Media in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research is on the practices and discourses of digital technology culture and innovation. This work focuses on how digital technologies are designed, produced, distributed, and used in various contexts across parts of Africa, China, and the United States. Twitter: @seyramavle
Associate Professor
Wade Bishop (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5022-2707) is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee. His research interests include Research Data Management, Data Discovery, and Geographic Information Science. Bishop has an M.L.I.S. from the University of South Florida and a Ph.D. from Florida State University. He can be contacted at wade.bishop@utk.edu • Contact information School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Dr. Room 454 Communications Bldg. Knoxville, TN 37996 Tel: 865-974-2775 Fax: 865-974-7878 Email: wade.bishop@utk.edu Social media links: @WadeBishopUTK
Research Support Specialist, OCLC Research
Brittany Brannon is a Research Support Specialist with OCLC’s Library Trends and User Research group, where she works on several multi-institutional research projects studying user information behavior, including the IMLS grant-funded project Researching Students’ Information Choices: Determining Identity and Judging Credibility in Digital Spaces. Brittany’s primary research interests are in information seeking behavior, academic research skills, and scholarly communication. She earned an MLIS at Kent State University, a Master’s in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Kansas, and a Bachelor’s in English Literature and Philosophy from Denison University. Before joining OCLC, she taught first-year composition, consulted with graduate students on their research and writing, and worked for an educational nonprofit.
PhD Candidate iSchool Syracuse
Sarah Bratt is a 5th year PhD candidate at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. She holds a B.S. in Philosophy at Ithaca College, and M.S. in Library and Information Science with a Data Science certificate from Syracuse University. Her research focuses on scientific communication, data science, and new technologies for organizing scientific communities. Current projects include (1) big metadata analytics of NCBI's GenBank scientific collaboration network metadata to understand the practices and processes involved in distributed science work; and (2) calculating research dataset use and circulation to understand how different types of scientific interactions impact research productivity and knowledge diffusion Social Medial Links: https://twitter.com/sarahsbratt
PhD student, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant
Mary Burke is a third-year PhD student in Information Science and Linguistics at the University of North Texas. She is currently working on an IMLS-funded project on information organization strategies used by language archives, and serving as a co-director of CoRSAL, the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages at the UNT Digital Library. Her research interests include language endangerment and advocacy, re-use of archival data, and Tibeto-Burman syntax.
Professor
Dr. Nadia Caidi is a faculty member at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on human information behaviour and information policy. Her contributions aim to inform and promote a critical LIS lens and a public interest approach to the information fields. She has a forthcoming book (co-edited with Dr. Keren Dali), Humanizing LIS Education and Practice: Diversity by Design (published by Routledge). Dr. Caidi was the 2011 President of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS), and the 2016 President of ASIS&T. In 2019, ALISE awarded her the Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award. She is also the 2020 recipient of ASIS&T’s Watson Davis Award for Service.
Ph.D. candidate
Chia-Hsuan Chang is a Ph.D. candidate of the Department of Information Management at National Sun Yat-sen University. Now, he is also a visiting researcher in the Department of Information Science at Drexel University. His research interests include information retrieval, natural language processing, cross-lingual text analysis, and health informatics. Contact information: sham82503@gmail.com, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chia-hsuan-chang/
Associate Professor
Dr. Hsia-Ching (Carrie) Chang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science, College of Information, at the University of North Texas. Dr. Chang is also a Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America, a non-partisan think tank. Her research activities focus on data analytics, social media, cybersecurity, and knowledge mapping. She co-edited two books with Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh. The first book is titled "Analytics and Knowledge Management" (2018); the second one is "Cybersecurity for Information Professionals: Concepts and Applications" (2020). Both books were published by Taylor & Francis Group.
Associate Professor, Associate Dean (International)
Associate Professor Shanton Chang is Associate Dean (International) at the Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne. He has been involved in building the internship program at the university, mentoring students, and engaging with industry partners to enable positive graduate outcomes for students. His research includes the exploration of human information behaviours, information needs and the use of social media in public health, education and businesses. He is particularly interested in the information behaviours of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) groups, with a focus on new migrants and international students. He has published his collaborative works in journals and conferences internationally. Social Media Links: Twitter @ShantonChang
A postgraduate in Wuhan University
I majored in Information Management and Information System in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Now I am studying for master's degree in Information Science in Wuhan University. The main direction is information dissemination on social media. Contact information : sjcnh9956@163.com
PhD candidate
I am now an ABD (all but dissertation) in Information Studies at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I am actively looking for a faculty position or post-doc fellowship. My research interests cover three aspects, namely, user information behavior (action), user-generated content (outcome), and user cyberpsychology (underlying mechanism), particularly in the context of social media. Currently, My PhD project focuses on a particular group of digital influencers who create and share knowledge-intensive content on online platforms (viz., Knowledge Wanghong in China). I hold a master’s degree in Information Science of Wuhan University, and a bachelor’s degree in Information Management & Information Systems of Huazhong Agricultural University, both of which are based in Wuhan, a City of Punk in China.
PhD Student, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yi-Yun Cheng (Jessica) is currently a 5th year PhD student in the School of Information Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Professor Bertram Ludaescher. Her research interests include taxonomies, taxonomy alignment, knowledge organization, ontologies, biodiversity informatics, and data curation. She has been working with Dr. Ludaescher on the NSF-funded project Exploring Taxon Concepts (ETC), in which they employed a logic-based approach to solve taxonomy interoperability problems in biodiversity informatics. Further, she has also worked in collaboration with Dr. Nico Franz, an entomologist and taxon-concept expert from ASU, to explore the use of data science methods for taxonomy alignment problems in the WholeTale reproducibility in biodiversity project. Jessica has published in Knowledge Organization Journal, ASIS&T annual meetings, JCDL, DCMI, IDCC and iConference. Recently, she has been awarded the LEADS-4-NDP fellowship for 2019 and 2020. Twitter: @yiyunjessica Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Twgvb7AAAAAJ&hl=en ORCiD ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-7595 Website: https://publish.illinois.edu/yiyuncheng/
Assistant Professor
Dr. Mónica Colón-Aguirre is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University’s Library Science program. She earned her doctorate degree from the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In addition to her doctoral degree, her other degrees includes an M.S. from the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences and an M.B.A. from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. Her research area and interests include user services, academic library administration, Latinx use of information organizations and organizational storytelling in library environments. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Dr. Colón-Aguirre worked as an assistant librarian in her native Puerto Rico. Twitter: @ColonAguirre
Assistant Professor
I study health information practices online and primarily use the grounded theory methodology. My research is concerned with questions of power, autonomy, and biopolitics and how they shape health information practices. I also explore how people assess relevance and credibility of health information, and the role of epistemic privilege/authority in those assessments. I regularly teach human information behavior, critical algorithm studies, and health sciences information at Rutgers. Twitter: @k8lin
Co-director, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities / Clinical Professor in History
Kalani Craig is Clinical Assistant Professor in History at Indiana University Bloomington and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, a research center of the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University Bloomington. Her research on digital-history methods in pedagogy integrates text mining, spatial history, and network analysis. She is PI on Net.Create, an NSF-funded exploration of network analysis in history reading comprehension. Twitter: @kalanicraig, @idah_iu Web site: http://kalanicraig.com
Associate Research Scientist
Chris’s research looks at the ways that public services are provided to local communities. He is interested in the contrast between services from private businesses, and services from government entities like libraries. He has looked at this contrast in diverse contexts around the world, ranging from Ohio to Somalia. Chris also researches the ways people get and evaluate their information in different online environments, including search engines, databases, and repositories. Chris graduated from The Ohio State University with a BA in Political Science and History, and earned an MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to his time at OCLC, Chris was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Eastern Kentucky University, and an ABD Fellow at the One Earth Future Foundation. Social Medial Links: https://twitter.com/ChrisCyr19
Co-director, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities / Head, Digital Collections Services
Michelle Dalmau is Associate Librarian and Head of Digital Collections Services (DCS) at the Indiana University Libraries and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities (IDAH). As head of DCS, Michelle manages and coordinates digital library services for the Libraries and affiliated cultural heritage organizations across all IU campuses. As co-director for IDAH, Michelle fosters the development of digital arts and humanities infrastructure projects and initiatives through outreach, collaborative research and creative pursuits, consultation, professional development, and credit-bearing programs. Twitter: @mdalmau, @idah_iu Website: https://libraries.indiana.edu/michelle-dalmau
Doctoral Student
Cansu E. Dedeoglu is a PhD student in information science at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Her doctoral work draws on the fields of human computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), knowledge and information management to understand how individuals and organizations interact with information and digital media and technologies in low-resource environments, including humanitarian and settlement contexts. She also focuses on information practices of organizations serving underrepresented and non-dominant communities, including refugees, migrants, and international students. Social Media Links: https://twitter.com/Cansu_ED and https://www.linkedin.com/in/cansu-dedeoglu/
PhD Student
Ly is a fifth-year PhD student at the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ly's current interests as well as research publications lie at the intersection of computational social science, network theories and applications, and organizational communication. More specifically, Ly focuses on how research methods such as network analysis and social simulation models can be used to advance our understanding of various social and organizational systems. Her current projects place network science at the core to understand and explain a number of social/organizational phenomena ranging from egocentric networks to interagency emergency response networks. Contact information: dinh4@illinois.edu
Associate Professor
Dr. Jia Tina Du is an Associate Professor in the Information Management Program at the University of South Australia, Australia. Her research interests include human information behaviour, interactive information retrieval, marginalized communities, and social informatics. Social Medial Links: Twitter: @dujiarainy WeChat (Weixin) ID: JiaTinaDu
Communications Director, Tarleton State University; Ph.D. Student, University of North Texas
Elizabeth is a Ph.D. student in Information Science at the University of North Texas. She also works full time at Tarleton State University, a member of the Texas A&M University System, as the Communications Director for the College of Graduate Studies and Global Campus. She holds an M.B.A from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, and a B.S. from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. Her research interests include consumer behavior, customer relationship management, consumer advocacy and data ethics. Elizabeth is originally from Indiana but currently resides in Texas. When not diligently working on academic pursuits, she enjoys travel, flea markets, spending time in nature and tea. Contact Information: Elizabeth Dunn Rawlings - 765-401-4202 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethadunnrawlingsmba/ ElizabethDunn@my.unt.edu
Assistant Professor
biographical sketch: Dr. Eikey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and the Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego, United States. Her research is at the intersection of mental health, technology, and equity. As such, Dr. Eikey focuses on understanding how to support and promote positive mental health through technology design. Using mixed methods approaches with an emphasis on qualitative methods, she investigates the adoption, use, and consequences of technologies, such as self-tracking apps, particularly among individuals with mental health issues. Dr. Eikey is also the Assistant Director of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), a leadership and development program aimed at preparing undergraduate students from underrepresented populations for graduate study and careers in information science-related areas. Social media links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethveikey/; Twitter: @eveikey
Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
Ixchel M. Faniel is a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio, USA. Her interests include improving how people discover, access, and use/reuse content. She is currently examining research data management, sharing, and reuse within academic communities and students’ identification and evaluation of digital resources. Ixchel’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She can be contacted at fanieli@oclc.org. Twitter handle: @imfaniel
Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Yuanyuan Feng is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research is grounded in human-centered computing, with strong interdisciplinary interests in health informatics, usable privacy and applied machine learning. The goal of her research is to ensure the ethical and meaningful use of personal information with the plethora of emerging computing and information technologies. Social Media Links: www.yuanyuanfeng.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/dryuanyuanfeng/
Academic Counsel and Head of Department
Dr. Kaja J. Fietkiewicz is academic counsel (postdoc) and head of the Information Science Department at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Her research interests revolve around human-computer interaction as well as ethical and legal consequences of digital development. Her current research concerns information behavior on social media, information law, and health and fitness tracking technologies. Kaja has written over 50 articles and co-authored a book on the knowledge society. She organized and (co-)chaired several sessions on international conferences (e.g. HICSS, HCII). She participated in the panel discussion at the ASIS&T AM 2018 on Challenges for Social Media: Misinformation, Free Speech, Civic Engagement, and Data Regulations. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kajafietkiewicz/ Twitter: @kajafollowicz
Associate Professor
Darin is an associate professor in the School of Information Science at the University of South Carolina. His research and teaching focuses on innovation and the knowledge processes of organizations, including how knowledge is shared, documented, and applied. His current research includes attempts to situate knowledge within the public library, looking at the roles of leadership and library staff in creating an environment conducive to innovation. He is currently heading up the information science undergraduate program at UofSC, and in this capacity is focused on where this degree fits within the job market and the competencies students need to be successful.
Faculty member at the University of North Texas (UNT), coordinator of Digital Curation activities and also teaching at the UNT College of Information
Dr. Daniel Gelaw Alemneh is a faculty member at the University of North Texas (UNT), coordinator of Digital Curation activities and also teaching at the UNT College of Information. His research interests include open access, scholarly communication, digital curation and ensuring long-term access to cultural heritage resources. Daniel has been actively involved in various local, national, and international professional societies and served in various capacities, including as a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and the International Council On Knowledge Management (ICKM) their Executive Committees. He was the Co-chair of the International Conference on Knowledge Management Conference (ICKM). Daniel served as a Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020) at Addis Ababa University’s College of Natural Science, School of Information Science. Daniel can be reached at daniel.alemneh@unt.edu.
Associate Professor
Catherine Gomes is an Associate Professor in RMIT's School of Media and Communication. Catherine is an ethnographer whose work contributes to the understanding of the evolving migration, mobility and digital media nexus. As a migration and mobility scholar, Catherine specialises on the social, cultural and communication spaces of transient migrants, especially international students, their wellbeing and their digital engagement. Catherine's work covers the themes of identity, ethnicity, race, memory and gender. She is a specialist on the Asia-Pacific with Australia and Singapore being significant fieldwork sites. Catherine has also written about gender and audience reception in Chinese cinemas, and multiculturalism in Singapore cinema. Catherine has published 10 books and numerous articles in these various areas. Social Medial Links Staff website: https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/g/gomes-associate-professor-catherine Twitter: catgomes10 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-gomes-a265b6103/
Assistant Professor, Simmons University
I am assistant professor in the LIS program at Simmons University in Boston, MA. I teach information organization and art documentation, and serve as the faculty liaison for Panopticon, the student organization at Simmons for those interested in art and art librarianship. My research investigates how institutions and community “archivists” document art and cultural heritage collections. I have published findings on the organization of graffiti art in online image galleries around the world and have compared terminological usage by the graffiti art community with the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus. I am a photographer and collector, and remain deeply fascinated by collections and collectors, and how they organize, describe, manage, and use their holdings, both within and outside formal institutions. Social Media Link: @annmgraf (Twitter)
Assistant Professor
Devon Greyson is Assistant Professor of Health Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Chair of the ASIS&T Research Engagement Committee. Dr. Greyson studies health information behavior and practices, with a particular focus on the interaction between public health information and pediatric, parental, and reproductive decision-making. Major projects in Devon’s program of research have focused on young parenting, vaccine decision-making, and cannabis decisions during pregnancy and lactation. Social Media Links: Twitter @DevonGreyson
Head of Emerging Technologies, United Nations World Food Program (WFP)
Houman Haddad is the Head of Emerging Technologies at the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). Houman is the founder of WFP’s “Building Blocks” project, which seeks to harness the power of blockchain to foster interagency collaboration and create efficiencies. Building Blocks is the world’s largest implementation of blockchain technology for humanitarian assistance, currently serving 500,000 Syrian and Rohingya refugees in Jordan and Bangladesh. Blockchain technology also has the potential to empower the vulnerable through financial inclusion and digital identities. Houman joined WFP in 2010 as a treasury officer and, prior to WFP, worked in Canada’s banking sector.
Professor of Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
Hazel Hall PhD MA BA FRSE FHEA FCLIP is Professor of Social Informatics within the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. She is also Docent in Information Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi, Finland. Hall is active world-wide in Library and Information Science research, with her main research expertise and interests lying in information sharing in online environments within the context of knowledge management. Other themes in which she maintains an active interest include social computing/media, online communities and collaboration, research impact, and the library and information science professions. Hall is currently a Panel Member for the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 Unit of Assessment 34 (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management). Fuller profiles are available in a Wikipedia entry at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Hall_(information_scientist) and on the Edinburgh Napier University web site at https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/hazel-hall Social Media Links Web site at http://hazelhall.org ‘Profiles on other platforms’ page lists the following at https://hazelhall.org/profiles-on-other-platforms/
Director of Knowledge and Resource Management at Tarrant County College
Kris Helge serves as Director of Knowledge and Resource Management at Tarrant County College. He also serves as adjunct faculty at Texas A&M School of Law and Rutgers University. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of North Texas, a J.D., from South Texas College of Law Houston, an M.L.S. from the University of North Texas, and a B.A. from Baylor University.
PhD Candidate and Pre-doctoral Lecturer, University of Washington
I am a PhD candidate and pre-doctoral lecturer at the University of Washington Information School. My research is in knowledge organization, subject indexing, and social tagging. I am particularly interested in comparing and combining the subject indexing approaches of different types of indexers, including: professional indexers, domain and folk experts, social and casual indexers, and machine indexers. I teach courses at UW in library science, data science, and scientific and technical writing. Before returning to academia, I wrote software documentation and led technical writing teams at IBM and Google. Social Media Links: chrisholstrom.com
PhD student in Information Sciences @UIUC
My research interests are on topics related to scientometrics, citation analysis, and citation motives. I use data science methods for studying dynamics and trends in scientific papers. My current projects are about capturing citation motives from citation-containing sentences using bibliometrics, data mining, machine learning, and NLP methods.
Haruna Hussein obtained his PhD on e-Learning (design and development of technology-enhanced learning – TEL) at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. His research focuses on designing and evaluating the effect of innovative serious games and gamification for sexual health education in low-tech settings particularly sub-Saharan Africa. His dissertation distinguished and declared as the 2020 recipient of the ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award from The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). He has published research articles that evaluated the effects of digital technologies innovation in education to foster 21st Century Skills for the Digitally-Savvy Generation. Furthermore, he successfully completed a project for the creation of a hybrid health information science programme in Tanzania, which is supported by the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM) from February 2014 to-date. With regards to awards, he has received more than 21 awards including from Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Tom Hall Small Global Health Education Grants in 2017, Distinguished Leadership Award in 2014, and other scholarships, fellowships, academic achievements, and travel grants. His research interest includes game-based learning, gamification, technology-enhanced learning, participatory design research, design-based research, information technology in education, and health information literacy. Social Media Links: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hussein_Haruna Skype name: haruna.hussein
Professor
Professor Isto Huvila holds the chair in information studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden and is adjunct professor in information management at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. During the academic year 2019/20 Huvila was working as a visiting professor at the School of Information (iSchool, Library, Archival and Information Studies) at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His primary areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data, and social and participatory information practices. He received a MA degree in cultural history at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD degree in information studies at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2006.
Research Associate (Dept. of Information Science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
Aylin Ilhan is a doctoral student at the department of Information Science at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her doctoral thesis investigates activity tracking technologies and focuses, for example, on data privacy (information disclosure and privacy concerns), gamification, health information literacy as well as of the motivation to use these technologies. She is for a second time minitrack chair at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in the Healthcare Track focusing on self-quantification by activity tracking technologies. Further, she is guest-editing the Special Issue Emerging Perspectives on Health Information Needs from the Aslib Journal of Information Management. Social Media Links: Twitter: @aylinnchen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aylinilhan/
Associate Professor at Kyushu University
Emi Ishita is an Associate Professor at Kyushu University (Japan), with appointments in the Department of Library Science and the Research and Development Division of the University Library. She currently serves as the iSchool representative for Kyushu University. Dr. Ishita earned her Ph.D in Information Science from Kyushu University and her Master of Information Science from the University of Library and Information Science (Japan). Her research interests include application of text analysis to genre classification, computational archival science and computational social science, and Library and Information Science education. In computational social science research, her project team is working on reducing human annotation effort for content analysis. Additional information is available at http://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K003977/english.html Contact information: ishita.emi.982@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Associate Professor
Md. Anwarul Islam is an Associate Professor of Information Science & Library Management at the University of Dhaka. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of Knowledge Management, Information Behaviour and Informetrics. He earned his PhD from the School of Knowledge Science, JAIST, Japan. Anwar is a VLIR-UOS Fellow 2012, University of Antwerp, Belgium ; ACRC Fellow 2013, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; DRF Fellow 2013-2016, JAIST, Japan; ACU Fellow 2016 (UK), UBC, Canada and a New Leader Awardee (2017-2018) of ASIS&T. He is one of the winners of International Paper Contest 2019 sponsored by ASIS&T SIG-III. Since 2015 when he was a PhD student, Anwar has been actively involved with ASIS&T. He has held various leadership positions in ASIS&T and now serving as a secretary of SIG-KM and Chair of South Asia Chapter of ASIS&T. You can learn more about him https://www.du.ac.bd/faculty/faculty_details/LIS/1233 Social Media link: Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/anwarbabu.du Twitter : https://twitter.com/anwar81du ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md_Islam168 ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0950-585X
Principal Scientist
Dr. Jansen is a Principal Scientist in the Social Computing Group of the Qatar Computing Research Institute leading a research team working on the automatic generation of personas (see https://persona.qcri.org/). He is a graduate of West Point and has a Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M University. Professor Jansen is editor-in-chief of the journal, Information Processing & Management and former editor-in-chief of Internet Research. He has received several awards and honors, including an ACM Research Award, six application development awards, and a university-level teaching award, along with other writing, publishing, research, teaching, and leadership honors. Dr. Jansen has authored or co-authored 350 or so research publications, with articles appearing in a multi-disciplinary range of journals and conferences. He is the author of the book, Understanding Sponsored Search: A Coverage of the Core Elements of Keyword Advertising (Cambridge University Press). He is presenting writing a co-authored book, entitled Data-Driven Personas. Social Medial Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjansen/
Doctoral Student
Chenyue is a second-year doctoral student in School of Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the knowledge infrastructures that support data sharing and reuse. She will present her research with her advisor, Dr. Peter T. Darch, on the role of the data paper in scholarly communication. Data papers, published as peer-reviewed articles that provide descriptive information about specific datasets, are a potential solution to facilitate data sharing and reuse by providing citation credit for data producers and providing contextual information to support reuse. Data papers have often been cited. However, does citation of a data paper really mean reuse of the underlying dataset? Chenyue will present their preliminary findings from a content-based citation analysis of data papers. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChenyueJ
Assistant Professor
Amir Karami is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science, a Faculty Associate at the Arnold School of Public Health, and Social Media Core Director at the Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC) at the University of South Carolina (UofSC). His research interests are social media analysis, text mining, computational social science, and medical/health informatics. His projects were funded by several grants such as ASPIRE and social science grants at UofSC. His research was published in different journals such as the Information Processing & Management, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, and International Journal of Information Management, and conferences like the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, iConference, and Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS). Social Media Links: https://twitter.com/Karami_Amir & https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-karami-16690019/
Senior Writer at Snopes.com
Alex Kasprak is a senior writer at Snopes.com who focuses on scientific misinformation and long-term investigative projects. Prior to Snopes, he worked as a science writer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and for BuzzFeed. His investigative work at Snopes primarily focuses on exposing organizations or individuals who manipulate social media for political or financial purposes. Social links: twitter: https://twitter.com/alexkasprak facebook: https://www.facebook.com/akasprak/
Associate Professor
Makoto P. Kato, Ph.D. is associate professor at the Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba in Japan. His research interests include information retrieval, web mining and machine learning. He has been recently working on entity-oriented search and statistical data search from the Web. He is currently organizing NTCIR-15 Data Search (https://ntcir.datasearch.jp), a shared task on ad-hoc retrieval for governmental statistical data. Social Medial Links: https://www.mpkato.net/
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development, College of Communication & Information, Florida State University
Michelle M. Kazmer is a Professor in the School of Information, and Associate Dean in the College of Communication and Information, at Florida State University. Her research includes qualitative and mixed-methods studies of distributed knowledge in settings associated with health and learning, and she has a courtesy appointment in the FSU College of Medicine. She teaches in the areas of qualitative research methods, information policy, information organization, and information literacy. She has also worked as a rare book cataloger, as an academic engineering/digital librarian, and as a technical information specialist in the automotive industry. Social media: https://twitter.com/michellekazmer
Liaison Librarian, University of Pittsburgh
Robin Kear is a Liaison Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh. She works with the English, Film & Media Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies departments. She has recently co-edited a book titled ‘Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community’. Internationally, she has co-published and presented research on the attitudes of global new library professionals for IFLA and BOBCATSSS conferences. Robin served as an information services intern for the United Nations in Nairobi, Kenya, and has taught in Vietnam and Kazakhstan. She was named an American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leader and a Library Journal Mover and Shaker. Robin has served extensively in the University of Pittsburgh’s Faculty Senate and received the 2020 Senate award for outstanding service to the university. She is currently chairing the ALA Conference Committee and serves on the ALA Center for the Future of Libraries Advisory Group. @rkear https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/robinkear https://pitt.libguides.com/robinkear
Research Affiliate, Illinois State Geological Survey
Don is a research geologist focused on the use of geologic knowledge to improve the characterization of uncertain geologic interpretations. After working several years at the Illinois State Geological Survey, he left to complete his PhD in Informatics. His presentation at this, his first, ASIST conference is focused on the deconstruction of a geologic characterization workflow to guide the design of a knowledge base and reasoning application. His dissertation research is focusing on the use of disjunctive logic programming to provide multiple interpretation sets of glacial sediment distribution from a complex geologic dataset. linkedin.com/in/dakeefer illinois.edu/person/dkeefer
Associate Professor, University of North Texas
Executive Director, Delivery Services
Cathy has been with OCLC for 5 years and currently leads the product management team for Delivery Services, which encompasses Discovery, Resource Sharing and library Collection Evaluation products. She's a relentless innovator with a passion for improving digital user experiences. During her time at OCLC, Cathy has transformed the product development process to involve a greater degree of customer and user feedback from ideation to execution. Before joining OCLC, Cathy spent more than a decade working in eCommerce, delivering complex projects along the discovery to fulfillment customer journey. This experience has translated well to serving the needs of libraries and their users. Her diverse educational background helps her bring a thoughtful and unique approach to every project. She studied computer science and English fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also earned an MBA. Email: kingc@oclc.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/cathywking LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathywking
Associate Professor
Kyungwon Koh is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. Her areas of expertise include the maker movement in libraries and education, learning and community engagement through libraries, human information behavior, youth services, and competencies for information professionals. Twitter: @KyungwonKoh
Associate Professor
Kathryn La Barre is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences and Gender and Women’s Studies faculty affiliate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work interrogates the power dynamics of historical and contemporary naming practices in cultural heritage collections. A member of ASIST since 1998, she has served on the ASIST Board of Directors, as a Member of the 75th Anniversary task force, and as chair of the ASIST 80th Anniversary working group. She served as the first ASIST Curator from 2017-2020, helping to facilitate the oral history project ‘Leaders of Information Science Worldwide’ and conducting the first assessment of the archival holdings at ASIST headquarters. Social Medial Links: @AnonNyanCat https://www.kathrynlabarre.net/
Director of Research @ Spotify
Mounia Lalmas is a Director of Research at Spotify, and the Head of Tech Research in Personalization. Mounia also holds an honorary professorship at University College London. Before that, she was a Director of Research at Yahoo, where she led a team of researchers working on advertising quality for Gemini, Yahoo's native advertising platform. She also worked with various teams at Yahoo on topics related to user engagement in the context of news, search, and user generated content. Prior to this, she held a Microsoft Research/RAEng Research Chair at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Before that, she was Professor of Information Retrieval at the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London. Her work focuses on studying user engagement in areas such as native advertising, digital media, social media, search, and now audio. She was co-programme chair for SIGIR 2015, WWW 2018 and WSDM 2020. She is also the co-author of a book written as the outcome of her WWW 2013 tutorial on 'measuring user engagement. Social Medial Links: https://twitter.com/mounialalmas https://www.linkedin.com/in/mounialalmas/
Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science
Noah Lenstra has been at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's School of Education since 2016, where he is an assistant professor of library and information science. In April 2020, his book Healthy Living at the Library will be published by Libraries Unlimited. As part of his work on this topic, he served on the Public Library Association's Health Literacy National Advisory Board, and he currently serves on the Physical Activity Research Center's Activating Rural America Advisory Group. He is currently working on an Institute of Museum & Library Services grant-funded project (LG-18-19-0015-19) that will answer the question "How do small and rural public libraries address health and wellness through public programs?" His research has been published in Library Quarterly, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, and the Journal of Library Administration, among others. He blogs monthly for the ALA Public Programs Office's Programming Librarian website, is an active member of the Association for Rural and Small Libraries. Social Medial Links Twitter: @NoahLenstra
Master major in Computational Linguistics
A Research Assistant interested in Natural Language Processing https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinfen-li-rclee484/
PhD student, research assistant
Yuan Li is currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Before attending UHC-CH, she received her Master's degree from the School of Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina. Her research interests fall into the area of interactive information retrieval (IIR) and human-computer interaction (HCI). Specifically, her dissertation focus on cross-session search behavior. Social Links: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zt2aDv4AAAAJ&hl=en
PhD student at iSchool, Syracuse University
Social Medial Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizhenliang/
Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Ying-Hsang Liu Ph.D. (Rutgers) has worked as information science researcher and educator in Taiwan, USA, Australia and Denmark. He has conducted research on user behavior, using usability testing, diaries, think-alound protocols, eye tracking and interaction design in academic settings, as well as industry collaboration. He has been an active ASIS&T member, and served as Chair of ASIS&T Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship (2014) and ASIS&T ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award (2017). Twitter @ruyhliu
PhD candidate
Wenqing Lu is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Simmons University. Prior to studying at Simmons, she earned her Masters’ degree in Russian. She is fluent in English, Russian, and her native Mandarin. Lu is particularly interested in usability and user experience studies. She has worked at the SLIS Usability Lab, been a teaching assistant for a usability course, and participated in a usability research project on the PBCore website. Her dissertation research focuses on how iSchool students use social media tools for collaborative learning, and how user experience elements influence this process. Social media link: https://twitter.com/l_wenqing
Professor in Medical Informatics
Christopher Lueg is on a mission to rid the world of bad user interfaces. His expertise is in Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, and Embodied Information Behavior which he uses to teach computer science and medical informatics students as well as to improve products, services, and practices in medical informatics and the health sciences. Prior to the appointment in Switzerland he was a Professor in Computing at the University of Tasmania (Australia) where he served as a Co-Director of the university's Data, Knowledge and Decisions (DKD) and Creativity, Culture and Society (CCS) research themes.
PhD Student
Brady Lund is a PhD Student at Emporia State University's School of Library and information Management, from which he also received his master of library science degree. His research interests include human-information interaction, informetrics, and the study of the disciplinary nature of library and information science. Contact Information: blund2@g.emporia.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Jinxuan Ma is an assistant professor at Emporia State University. She received her Ph.D. in Information Studies at Florida State University. Her research interests focus primarily, but not exclusively, on health information diffusion within dynamic information contexts and professional practice. -Contact information (email): jma4@emporia.edu
Doctoral Student
Yuanye Ma is currently a fourth year Ph.D. student at School of Information and Library Science (SILS), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Yuanye's research interests include information ethics (IE), intercultural information ethics (IIE), and natural language processing (NLP). For her dissertation, Yuanye is interested in examining privacy as an abstract concept under the light of intercultural information ethics, and the goal is that by leveraging computational semantic measures, a more nuanced understanding of the concept of privacy in an inter/cross-cultural environment can be achieved. Before UNC, Yuanye studied library science as her undergraduate degree in Soochow University in China, and obtained her master's degree from University of Michigan, School of information, with a specialization on information policy. https://sites.google.com/view/yuanyem/home
Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services
Dr. Michelle H. Martin became the Beverly Cleary Endowed Professor in Children and Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington in September 2016. From 2011- June 2016 she was the inaugural Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in Childhood Literacy at the University of South Carolina. She teaches children’s and young adult literature and youth services courses and has published Brown Gold: Milestones of African-American Children’s Picture Books, 1845-2002 (Routledge 2004) and co-edited (with Claudia Nelson) Sexual Pedagogies: Sex Education in Britain, Australia, and America, 1879-2000 (Palgrave, 2003). Martin co-founded Camp Read-a-Rama (www.Read-a-Rama.org), a non-profit that uses children’s books as the springboard for year-round and summer camp literacy immersion programming. Martin publishes widely on issues of diversity in children’s literature and reviews dozens of children’s books annually. Social Medial Links: Twitter: @martinmiABC Facebook: Michelle H. Martin
Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Dana McKay is a lecturer at the University of Melbourne whose research is focused on non-search information interaction, and equities and inequities driven by information. Her work is underpinned by ten years’ experience as the UX manager in a university library. Dana’s work is well recognised in the information interaction space, with a Google PhD fellowship in HCI in 2016 and best paper awards and nominations at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and the ACM Conference in Information Interaction and Retrieval. You will recognise Dana’s papers by the use of song lyrics, quotes, and book titles in her titles. Social media: Twitter @danachatter
EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice and Professor
Bharat Mehra is EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice and Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. Mehra has a distinguished national and international reputation as a scholar, researcher, and advocate of diversity and social justice in library and information science and community informatics or the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to empower minority and underserved populations to make meaningful changes in their everyday lives. He has applied action research in engaged scholarship while collaborating with racial/ethnic groups, international diaspora, sexual minorities, rural communities, low-income families, small businesses, and others, to represent their perspectives in the design of community-based information systems and services. Social Medial Links Homepage: https://bmehra.people.ua.edu/.
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Antonette Mendoza is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. She is the recipient of two national teaching awards: a citation for 'Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning' in the 2017 Australian Awards for University Teaching and the 2018 Computing, Research and Education (CORE) teaching award, national-level recognition for her work. She is also the recipient of the 2017 University of Melbourne Edward Brown Teaching Award and three faculty and department wide teaching awards. Her work recognizes outstanding leadership and innovation in enhancing academic teaching, resulting in enriched student-learning experience. Antonette’s research and teaching impacts on two areas: disadvantaged socio-technical contexts and engineering education. Her research focuses on design and change behaviour methodologies in software engineering and information systems using emotional attachment pedagogies. Contact: mendozaa@unimelb.edu.au
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Beth Patin is an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. Beth’s research agenda focuses on the equity of information in two research streams: crisis informatics and cultural competence. She is the co-founder of the Library Information Investigative Team research group. Currently, she is working on projects about epistemicide (defined as the silencing, killing, or devaluing of knowledge systems), digital humanities and the Civil Rights Movement, and on the intersection of disability and race in youth literature. In 2007, Beth was named an American Library Association Emerging Leader. Currently, she is a member of the Advisory Board on the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries. Social Medial Links: @bejoyfulbeth
Assistant Professor, Simmons University School of Library and Information Science
Danielle Pollock is the chair elect of SIG ED and an Assistant Professor at Simmons University. Dr. Pollock completed her doctoral degree in Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee. Her library career has included positions in special, academic, and public libraries. Dr. Pollock's research focuses on innovation adoption and the drivers and consequences of changes in information behavior in research-intensive communities. Her teaching areas include technology for information professionals, database design, metadata, and intersectionality, information technology, and information professions. Social media: @infosci_d on Twitter
PhD student / Research Assistant
Xin is a Ph.D. student at iSchool, University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently a member of the HCIL lab. She work with advisor Joel Chan on supporting sense-making and creativity on scientific literature. During her internship at Adobe Research in summer 2020 and 2019, she also worked on designing and implementing techniques for visual analytics. In summer 2018, she interned at DAMO Academy, Alibaba, on dialog state tracking and deployed the module for the shopkeeper chatbot at 2.taobao.com. Social Medial Links https://twitter.com/xqian94
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Dr. Abebe Rorissa is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) (the iSchool @Albany). Prior to his current position, he worked in Ethiopia, Lesotho, and Namibia as a lecturer and systems/automation librarian. He has also consulted for academic institutions, national governments, & international organizations, including the United Nations. His research interests include multimedia information organization and retrieval, scaling of users’ information needs, use/acceptance/adoption and impact of information and communication technologies, and data analytics. He is published extensively in leading international journals such as the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), Information Processing & Management, and Government Information Quarterly. He was a member of the Board of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and its Executive Committee. https://www.linkedin.com/in/abebe-rorissa-9982724/;
Chief People Officer and Doctoral Candidate
Amy Rosellini is the Chief People Officer at an investment real estate firm where she is employed as a practitioner of knowledge management systems. Her experience spans fifteen years in the field of knowledge management with multiple industries including retail, aviation, automotive, and consulting. As a researcher and doctoral candidate at the College of Information Science at University of North Texas, Amy analyzes the effectiveness of measurement tools in knowledge management systems. Amy has previously presented research at the International Conference on Knowledge Management. Amy received her Master’s degree at the University of North Texas and her undergraduate degree at Texas A&M University. Amy performs improvisational comedy and enjoys speaking to business leaders about the positive impact of improvisational skills on your professional and personal life. Twitter: @AmyRosellini
Professor
Dr. Loriene Roy is Anishinabe (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. She is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching public libraries, reference, and library instruction/information literacy courses. She serves on boards for the Library of Congress Literacy Awards and the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. She was President of the American Indian Library Association (AILA) (1997-1998) and the American Library Association (2007-2008). She received the AILA 2015 Distinguished Service Award; 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award, The University of Illinois; UH-Manoa 2014 Sarah Vann Award; 2009 Leadership Award, the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums; 2007 Library Journal Mover & Shaker; Texas Exes Teaching Awards; James W. Vick Texas Excellence Awards for Academic Advisors; and is an inaugural member of the UT-Austin Distinguished Service Academy. She has given over 600 presentations and has over 200 publications including 10 co-edited books.
Professor
Dr. Toni Samek is Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. Her interests are in intercultural information ethics. Toni’s books include: Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship 1967 to 1974; Librarianship and Human Rights: A twenty-first century guide; She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West; Information Ethics, Globalization and Citizenship: Essays on Ideas to Praxis; and, Minds Alive: Libraries and Archives Now. Toni currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Free Expression and the International Center for Information Ethics. Toni received the debut Library Journal Teaching Award in 2007, a Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Award in 2009, the 3M National Teaching Fellowship from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2012, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Distinguished Alumna Award in 2013, and the Library Association of Alberta President’s Award in 2017.
Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota at Duluth: Swenson College of Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science
Jomara Sandbulte is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota at Duluth: Swenson College of Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science. She received her Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Pennsylvania State University. She is a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher with an expertise in Health Informatics. Sandbulte’s work explores how technology can be used to support individuals’ health and wellbeing by examining existing systems and building alternatives. Her research has shed important light on health informatics in HCI and design research, and it has appeared in leading computing venues such as the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI). Prior to graduate school, she has worked in industry developing mobile devices solutions at Samsung Research, Latin America. Email: jsandbul@d.umn.edu Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jomaras
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research empirically explores governance of sociotechnical systems, as well as outcomes, inequality, and consequences within these systems. Using mixed-methods, including computational social science approaches and institutional analysis, she addresses research questions about: participation in and legitimacy of sociotechnical governance; social justice issues associated with sociotechnical governance; privacy in sociotechnical systems; and differences between policies or regulations and sociotechnical practice. Her work practically supports decision-making in, management of, and participation in a diverse public sphere. Twitter: @MrsMRS_Phd
Assistant professor Media Studies
Assistant professor Media Studies at the University of Groningen (NL), where I also teach in the Media Studies Bachelor programme, Media Studies Master programme Media Creation & Innovation, and Master programme in Communication and Information Science: Digital Humanities track. I coordinate the Digital Humanities MA and minor programmes. I completed my PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Twente University (NL), focusing on user-centred ICT innovation, co-creation, and living laboratory methodologies. Currently, I research serendipity in information retrieval and media creation, as well as creativity in software development and media production processes. Have published about narrative creation, search, living labs, and improvisation. Social media links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinasauer/ Twitter: @sabrinasauer
Director of Library Trends and User Research, OCLC Research
Lynn Silipigni Connaway is Director of Library Trends and User Research at OCLC Research. She is Past President of the Association for Information Science and Technology, the recipient of the ASIS&T 2019 Watson Davis Award, and the 2020 Distinguished Alumna Award at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School. Lynn is Past Chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries Value of Academic Libraries Committee. She held the Chair of Excellence, Departmento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, was a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, and Visiting Scholar at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark. Connaway has received research funding from the IMLS, Jisc, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is co-author of the 4th and 5th editions of Basic Research Methods for Librarians and of the 6th edition, Research Methods in Library and Information Science. connawal@oclc.org @LynnConnaway
Assistant Professor
Gretchen Stahlman is an Assistant Professor of Library & Information Science in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University, and she holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona's School of Information. Gretchen’s research interests focus on the social, technical and institutional infrastructures that mediate scholarly communication and long-term management of scientific data, incorporating a mixed-methods approach including interviews and workshops, survey research, bibliometrics and text analysis. Gretchen’s current research projects investigate the characteristics and accessibility of data associated with published journal articles, with a particular interest in disparate and heterogeneous “long tail” data across disciplines, as well as the information behavior of scientists seeking to publish, locate and reuse such data. The overall purpose of Gretchen’s present and future work is to inform open science and scholarly communication initiatives, along with development of methods, services and infrastructures for long-term data curation and information retrieval.
Associate Professor
Chris Alen Sula is Associate Professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Information, where he leads the Digital Humanities and Data Analytics & Visualization programs. He has published articles on digital humanities history, education, and connections with libraries and cultural heritage organizations, as well as ethical and activist uses of technology. Twitter @chrisalensula
Assistant Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
Megan Threats is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is also Visiting Research Faculty at the Yale School of Public Health. Her work focuses on how queer communities of color interact with information and use technologies to support their health and well-being. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of culturally-tailored eHealth and mHealth behavioral interventions aimed at reducing health disparities and achieving health equity for queer communities of color. Social Medial Links - twitter.com/meganthreats
Associate Bioinformatics Analyst & Data Curator at Sage Bionetworks
Kaitlin Throgmorton works at the intersection of information, communication, and policy, and is currently a data curator at a biotechnology nonprofit promoting open science. She recently graduated with her master's degree in library and information science from the University of Washington, where she worked as a research assistant for the Open Data Literacy (ODL) project. While at ODL, she researched open data in public libraries and improved metadata for the City of Seattle’s open data portal. Prior to her graduate degree, she worked in journalism, government, and public relations. Social Media Links: https://twitter.com/kthrog (@kthrog); https://www.linkedin.com/in/kthrog
Biological Sciences Librarian
Tara Tobin Cataldo is the Biological/Life Science Librarian and Science Collections Coordinator at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. She provides research and instructional support to the life science departments at the university, directs the collections’ operations of the Marston Science Library and serves on the group that manages the libraries’ multi-million dollar collections budget. Tara has her B.S. in Biology from the University of Tampa, her M.L.S. from the University of South Florida and she has been an academic librarian for 20 years. Social Medial Links: Twitter - @TaraTCataldo
Innovation and Connectivity Coordinator at FCA
Professional with diversity of background and work experience, involved in activities that stimulate innovation and in the implementation of methodologies to promote the innovation ecosystem. I have recently completed my Master of Business Administration in Innovation and Knowledge, focused on Open Innovation, knowledge development in important areas of innovation, including knowledge transfer, R&D, innovation management and information management. Currently I coordinate the Innovation and Connectivity area in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in the Latin American Region, developing and implementing company’s business strategy related to the Innovation for connectivity and mobility, building relationship with startups and partners related to FCA's strategy for innovation , connectivity and mobility with a collaborative approach, working across business solutions and new business opportunities related to connectivity and new technologies applied to connectivity, mobility and innovation. Social Medial Links: - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gutovarela/- - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gutovarela/ - Facebook: https://facebook.com/gutovarela - Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4207012553111309
PhD Candidate
Travis L. Wagner is a PhD Candidate in the School Information Science at the University of South Carolina. Wagner is also an instructor in USC's Women’s and Gender studies department. Their primary research interests include critical information studies, queer archives, and social advocacy in libraries. Their recent publications include articles in Reference Services Review and Open Information Science. They are also the co-creator of the Queer Cola Oral History and Digital Archive. Twitter: @trlwagner
Ph.D Candidate
WU Qian is currently a PhD student at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. Prior to this, she obtained her Master of Arts (MA) degree, majoring in Media Economics, from School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China in 2019; and Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, majoring in Advertising, as well as a Bachelor of Economics degree from Xiamen University in 2017. Her current research focuses on examining the structural influence of information communication technologies on human information behavior. Contact: Qian003@e.ntu.edu.sg
PhD Student at School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
Fanghui Xiao is a Ph.D.in Library and Information Science student in the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship at the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. My main research interest is to improve the usability of open data and its platforms by investigating user behaviors and data literacy. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are adopted to explore how open data and its platforms would be easy to be accessed and used by users. Social Medial Links: linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunny-fanghui-xiao-532818128/ Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fanghui_Xiao
PhD Student
She is a PhD student at School of Information Studies of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests lie primarily in the area of knowledge organization. Her current research involves linked data, linked open vocabularies, metadata, semantic relationships and relationships between resources.
Professor of Practice
Dr. Michael D. Young is a Professor of Practice in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. Trained in International Relations, Theory and Methods, and Political Psychology, he is also the President and co-founder of Social Science Automation, Inc. and the Executive for Threat Triage LLC. Michael is an expert in the field of automated text analysis recognized for his development of Profiler Plus, a general purpose platform for automated text coding with a broad range of applications including psychological assessment, media analysis, social network analysis and political analysis. Early in his career, Michael began working with the US Intelligence Community and subsequently spent fifteen years performing sponsored research and training analysts to more effectively assess and forecast foreign leadership behavior and decision making in international situations of critical interest to the United States of America. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-young-9b9b138/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Yy4hGPkAAAAJ&hl
PhD Student
I am a second year PhD student of Information Science at the University of North Texas, under the supervision of Prof. Lingzi Hong. I graduated from Zhejiang University and received my Master degree from the University of Pittsburgh. My research interests broadly lie in Social Computing, Data Mining and Natural Language Processing. personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/xinchen-yu/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinchen-yu-a2a90215a/
Associate Professor
Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan is an Associate Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). Her research interests include human information behavior, human computer interaction, interactive information retrieval, and user interface design. Her early career grant project awarded by the federal agency-the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) investigates the interaction between users and spoken language interfaces. Currently, she is working on a research project investigating older adults and COVID-19. Dr. Yuan is a co-chair of ASIST SIGUSE award committee. As a panelist whose research & teaching are mainly in information science, she will kick off discussions specific to users’ interaction with information and technologies and how it has implications for both sets of disciplines.
Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas (UNT), USA
Dr. Zavalina studies information organization in libraries and archives: metadata management, quality and change, subject representation, collection-level description, Linked Data applications; language archives’ user needs, etc. She has been developing and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on library cataloging and classification, metadata for digital libraries and archives, information and knowledge organization at both UNT and UIUC where she received Master’s and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Zavalina developed and has been teaching since 2016 a professional development course on metadata and Linked Data for the American Library Association, led two workshops on the future of metadata for the Texas Library Association. Dr. Zavalina co-organized the JCDL 2019 and 2020 workshops on organizing information and knowledge in Big Data environments. She has served on the editorial board of the Library Resources and Technical Services and The Electronic Library and is an active peer reviewer for journals, conference proceedings, edited monographs, and textbooks.
Postdoctoral Scholar
My research explores the interaction between technology and information professionals in library e-resource market at the organizational and industrial levels, and particularly focusing on examining the organizational decision processes in scholarly publishing industry. Methodologically, my work takes an empirical approach, mainly through interviews and qualitative content analysis, to capture and analyze how technologies have changed stakeholders’ perceptions of library e-resource market, and then to trace the impact of stakeholders’ perceptions on their actual practices when making decisions on purchasing/ disseminating digital recourses. Contact information: mzhang@syr.edu LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mei-zhang-01528898
Student
My name is Zelong Zhao. I come from China. Now I am a postgraduate freshman in the School of Information Resources Management, Renmin University of China. I major in Information Analysis. During the undergraduate study, my major was information resources management. In my junior year, I went to the University of Helsinki in Finland as an exchange student, studying some courses on digital humanities and data analysis. In April 2020, I finished my graduation thesis which named “Analysis and reference of the education patterns on digital humanities in European and American Universities”. The research fields that I am interested in are digital humanities, information behavior and management consulting.
Student
My name is Guangchun Zheng. I come from China. I am pursuing my master’s degree of Information Science at School of Information Resources Management, Renmin University of China, which is also where I got my Bachelor’s degree. In my junior year, I studied at the University of California, Davis as an exchange student. There I found that different cultures can bring more inspiration to research, which encouraged me to participate in this international conference. My undergraduate thesis is about the influence of rural libraries on information worlds of individuals, discussing the significance of rural library for reducing information poverty. Besides information inequality, my interested fields are information behavior and social media.
PhD candidate (Information Studies), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Han Zheng is a Ph.D. candidate at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He holds a Master of Science in Knowledge Management from NTU, as well as a Bachelor of Business Administration in Tourism Management from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His current research focuses on health informatics (e.g., Cyberchondria), social media analytics and research evaluation. His works have been published at prestigious journals and leading conferences in information science, such as the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Computers in Human Behavior, Health Communication, and ASIS&T annual meeting proceedings. Han can be contacted at han019@e.ntu.edu.sg. Social Media Link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Han_Zheng28
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
Tara Zimmerman completed her PhD in Information Science at the University of North Texas where she focused on the qualitative study of social media information behavior. She coined the term Social Noise to describe how observation by other people in the social network influences an individual’s observable behavior. As a CI 2020 Fellow at UT-Austin, Zimmerman continues to develop the Social Noise framework, applying it specifically to misinformation surrounding COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election.