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Francesca Tripodi

Francesca Tripodi

Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science; Senior Faculty Researcher, Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life


Expertise and Interests: Social media, political partisanship, and democratic participation, particularly how Google and Wikipedia are manipulated for political gains. Patterns of gender inequality on Wikipedia.

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Maria Tudela

Graduate Student Representative


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Ryan Urquhart

Adjunct Faculty


Expertise and Interests: Human-Machine Systems Human Information Processing Sensation & Perception Usability Interaction & Experience (UI/UX) User-Centered Design Product Design & Evaluation

Rebecca Vargha

Rebecca Vargha

SILS Librarian


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Emily Vorhies

Emily Vorhies

EPA Electronic Resources Librarian


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Wen Wang

PhD Student


Expertise and Interests: Human Information Interaction

Lingyu Wang

PhD Student


Expertise and Interests: Community archives, archiving praxes, critical media studies, art history method.

Yue (Ray) Wang

Yue (Ray) Wang

Assistant Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science


Expertise and Interests: Text data mining, including related areas such as machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, social and information network mining, and health informatics.

Linwood Webster

Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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Doug White

Systems Administrator


Expertise and Interests: Computing infrastructure and software management of systems running in Windows, Linux, OpenShift, VMware, Amazon Web Services and other environments

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Alice I Whiteside

Adjunct Faculty


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Joseph Winberry

Joseph Winberry

Assistant Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science


Expertise and Interests: Community engagement and organizing; critical library outreach and services to diverse populations; information marginalization; social justice in information and library science; qualitative and action research methods.

Megan A. Winget

Megan A. Winget

Teaching Assistant Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science


Expertise and Interests: Digital preservation, digital repositories and collecting institutions, representation of non-textual materials, collaborative technologies.

Yuyu Yang

PhD Student


Expertise and Interests: Information seeking, Music information retrieval, Human Computer Interaction.

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Fei Yu

Adjunct Faculty


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Hanlin Zhang

PhD Student


Expertise and Interests: Data Analytics, Usability of Early Generative-AI Tools and Scholarly Communications