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SILS welcomes Dr. Javed Mostafa to SILS/BRIC
June 13, 2007 - The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will welcome Dr. Javed Mostafa, who will join the faculty of SILS and the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), a multidisciplinary Center at UNC, for a joint appointment as associate professor on August 1, 2007.
Javed comes to SILS from Indiana University at Bloomington where he was the Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science and Associate Professor of Informatics at the School of Informatics. He has also had formal faculty affiliations with the Cognitive Science Program in Bloomington and the Computer and Information Science Department in Indianapolis, Indiana. His current research focuses on secure and personalized access to health information.
“We are delighted that Javed will be joining SILS and the Biomedical Research Imaging Center for this important joint appointment,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS. “We have found an outstanding, experienced and nationally recognized scholar to help build SILS’ and BRIC’s capabilities in the area of bioinformatics with special emphases on large-scale data integration, visualization and user control of complex information.”
Javed earned his Ph.D. from the School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. He has a master's from the College of Education at Ohio State University and a bachelor's of science degree in Computer Science from North West Oklahoma State University.
He is widely published in the information retrieval area. Dr. Mostafa is also an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems.