Ph.D. Student Profiles | Maryland's iSchool - College of Information Studies University Of Maryland

Ph.D. Student Profiles
Lloyd A. Beers, Jr.
Research Interests:

Archival theory; archival ethics; information access; psychological ownership of information; and workplace psychology and behavior

Elizabeth Bonsignore
Research Interests:

New media literacies; social media use and design in learning contexts; human-computer Interaction; transmedia storytelling; and digital humanities

Jeffrey DiScala
Research Interests:

School librarianship; information and education policy; information and technology literacy; and social media use in education

Chad Doran
Research Interests:

Records management for social media applications; digital preservation; e-government; information law and policy; and information governance

Elizabeth Foss
Research Interests:

Cooperative inquiry; youth internet searching; and design with special populations

Ning Gao
Research Interests:

Information retrieval; e-discovery; and natural language processing

Ursula Gorham-Oscilowski
Research Interests:

Information policy; e-government; access to legal information and court documents; and privacy

Alvin Grissom II
Research Interests:

Computational linguistics; machine learning; epistemological issues (pertaining to computational linguistics and machine learning); machine translation; natural language semantics; and philosophy of science

Yurong He
Research Interests:

Human-computer interaction; computer supported cooperative work; online communities; and motivation for participation in social media

Donal Heidenblad
Research Interests:

Ethics and values; bias and equity; community discourse; and software developer communities

Chen Huang
Research Interests:

Information management; organization theory; network analysis; social media; and human-computer interaction

Jinyoung Kim
Research Interests:

User behavior in social media; sociotechnical ecosystem; user experience; gender issues on social media; qualitative research method; and social media use during transitional period

Jes Koepfler
Research Interests:

Human values and design; sociotechnical ecosystems; human-centered information interaction; user experience research; applied research and evaluation; homelessness; cultural heritage; and non-profits

Lesley Langa
Research Interests:

Cultural heritage informatics; cultural policy; information policy; issues of access to information in underrepresented populations; issues of participation in information creation in the cultural heritage community; and web accessibility

Dennis Linders
Research Interests:

Smart city; open government; open development; and transformational government

Xu Meng
Research Interests:

Organizational behavior (incentive & motivation); dynamics of online community; crowdsourcing; information diffusion; social computing; and information technology innovation

Irene Eleta Mogollon
Research Interests:

Access to online multilingual information; language choice in search and communication; cross-language information retrieval; social media and social networks; user experience; and digital libraries and image collections

Thang Nguyen
Research Interests:

Machine learning; natural language processing; semantic web; big data; topic model; and deep learning

Chi Young Oh
Research Interests:

Location-based service; community mapping; information behavior in e-commerce; social commerce; search user interface; and human factors engineering

Anthony Pellicone
Research Interests:

Games in education; information and social justice; and public libraries

Christina Pikas
Research Interests:

Scholarly communication in science; social media; informetrics; and qualitative research methods

Amalia Skarlatou
Research Interests:

Archives; diasporas; digital history; nationalism and globalization; crowdsourcing through social media; and linked open data

Jia Sun
Research Interests:

Information technology innovation; innovation ecology; online communities; and social media

Natalie Greene Taylor
Research Interests:

School library media; information policy; information diffusion; and e-government

Amanda Waugh
Research Interests:

Impact of school libraries on student achievement; education reform and school libraries (e.g NCLB); STEM education and school libraries; and school libraries as "third place"

Susan Copeland Wilson
Research Interests:

e-government, digital access to public services, open government, transformational government, standards, low-income populations, information policy and governance, legislation

Tan Xu
Research Interests:

Information retrieval; natural language processing; machine learning; social media; and digital libraries