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/