Faculty Recruiting Ph.D. Students

The iSchool has more than 30 tenured and tenure-track faculty engaged in a variety of interesting research areas. The faculty listed below are actively recruiting Ph.D. students in their fields of interest. The school also has several research-focused professors who include scholarly work in their portfolio of professional activities.

To learn more about our Ph.D. admissions process, read our Ph.D. application checklist.

Jaime Banks

Looking for students in:
Human-Machine communication
Human-Robot/agent/computer interaction
Videogame psychology including player-avatar relations
Technology and morality
Public understanding of technology

Carlos Caicedo
Carlos Caicedo

Looking for students in:
Network security
Telecommunications policy
Wireless communication technologies and standards

Renate Chancellor
Looking for students in:
Critical cultural information studies
Human Information Behavior
Diversity and social justice in library and information science
Community informatics
Kevin Crowston
Kevin Crowston

Looking for students in:
Work and artificial intelligence
Citizen science
Coordination of online work

Sevgi Erdogan
Sevgi Erdoğan

Looking for students in:
Data-driven policy and decision-making
Data Science Applications in the Built Environment
Human, Infrastructure, and the Environment Interrelations
Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities

Ingrid Erickson
Ingrid Erickson

Looking for students in:
Critical study of algorithmic and autonomous systems
New and innovative forms of work practice
Knowledge work and analytics
Gender and technology

lee mcknight

Lee McKnight

Looking for students interested in:
Internet Governance
IoT, Blockchain and Information Security Policy Innovation
Smart Cities/Communities
Sustainability

Carsten Oesterlund
Carsten Østerlund

Looking for students in:
Trace data and document centric methodologies
New forms of work including citizen science, AI and work, crowdsourcing
Medical informatics with a focus on personal health records

Steven Sawyer
Steve Sawyer
Looking for students in:
Computerization of work and the changes to work (using AI and/or relying on digital platforms)
Social informatics and advancing socio-technical perspectives of computing.
Working with undergraduate students doing field-based research
Jeffrey Stanton
Jeffrey M. Stanton

Looking for students in:
Machine Learning and AI
Research Methods
Organizational Psychology

Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Looking for students in:
Political participation and communication on social media
Presidential campaign communication on social media
Public policy around information and information technologies

Bei Yu
Bei Yu

Looking for students in:
Natural Language Processing
Information Quality
Health and Science Communication

EunJeong Cheon

Looking for students in:
Human-computer interaction (HCI)
Human-robot interaction (HRI)
Science and technology studies (STS)
Ethnographic studies on social and power dynamics with technologies, labor in technology, and critical design methods/theories (e.g., research through design)