
Semantic technologies, linked data, knowledge graphs, knowledge representation via ontologies, British music trade and historical musicology
Advisor: Ryan Shaw

Strategic decision-making by esports players under perfect and imperfect information constraints
Advisor: Brad Hemminger

Human-computer interaction, social studies of information
Advisors: Amelia Gibson and Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Information seeking behavior, task-based information retrieval, human factors (cognitive and affective factors in HCI), search as learning
Advisor: Jaime Arguello

Advisor: Helen Tibbo

Media ecosystems, risk communications, public health, disaster recovery, user experience, design research
Advisor: Zeynep Tufekci

Health informatics, information seeking behavior and use (health-related), health policies and confidentiality and security of health information
Advisors: Amelia Gibson and David Gotz

Scholarly note-taking practices, infrastructure studies, history of information systems
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Stephanie Haas

Natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, health informatics
Advisors: Yue Wang and David Gotz

Knowledge organization, digital humanities, Baha’i studies, Arabic & Persian manuscripts
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Brad Hemminger


Human-computer interaction, social studies of technology
Advisor: Zeynep Tufekci

Human-computer interaction, interactive information behavior, collaborative search, information/knowledge organization and knowledge re-use
Advisor: Rob Capra

Inter-cultural information ethics, semantic network analysis, and natural language processing
Advisor: Stephanie Haas

Disability history, library history, print and online publishing spaces used by autistic self-advocates
Advisor: Ryan Shaw

Educational technology; digital and visual culture; accessibility; social media; memes; museums, libraries, and cultural institutions
Advisors: Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Marijel (Maggie) Melo

Metadata pedagogy, history of LIS, philosophy of information organization, critical information theory
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Brian Sturm

Information behavior, disclosure of personal information, survey interfaces and methods, free/open source software (F/OSS) education, digital humanities, Middle East libraries and cultural institutions
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Scholarly communications, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, social media, evidence-based practice
Advisor: Brad Hemminger

Database and information retrieval systems, text/data mining, bio/health/medical informatics
Advisor: David Gotz

Information retrieval, text data mining, interpretable machine learning, natural language processing
Advisors: Yue Wang and Jaime Arguello

Organization of information and information architecture, archives/special collections and cultural institutions, data management and curation, social studies of information management
Advisor: Christopher (Cal) Lee

User experience, inclusive design, and virtual reality
Advisors: Maggie Melo

School library media, marketing and PR for libraries, professional advocacy and recruitment, Library 2.0
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Data science, machine learning bias mitigation, AI explainability
Advisors: Yue Wang and David Gotz

Community-based collections, digital humanities
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Search as learning, learning-supportive search tools, and predicting learning during search
Advisors: Jaime Arguello and Rob Capra

Digital art archive, social knowledge representation, postmodern theory
Advisors: Cal Lee and Zeynep Tufekci

Human information interaction, externalization of knowledge, impact of pre-exist knowledge on information consumption, information visualization, UI design and data mining
Advisor: David Gotz

Human-computer interaction, augmented/virtual reality, interactive information retrieval, usability
Advisor: Rob Capra

Academic and health sciences librarianship, information workflow and needs, public and global health
Advisor: Mary Grace Flaherty
Information seeking, Music information retrieval, Human Computer Interaction
Advisor: Rob Capra

Data analytics, augmented/virtual reality, scholarly communication and open access
Advisor: Bradley Hemminger