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
Looking for students in:
Network security
Telecommunications policy
Wireless communication technologies and standards
Renate Chancellor
Human Information Behavior
Kevin Crowston
Looking for students in:
Work and artificial intelligence
Citizen science
Coordination of online work
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
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
Looking for students interested in:
Internet Governance
IoT, Blockchain and Information Security Policy Innovation
Smart Cities/Communities
Sustainability
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
Steve Sawyer
Jeffrey M. Stanton
Looking for students in:
Machine Learning and AI
Research Methods
Organizational Psychology
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
Looking for students in:
Natural Language Processing
Information Quality
Health and Science Communication
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)