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.
Carlos Caicedo
Looking for students in:
Network security
Telecommunications policy
Wireless communication technologies and standards
EunJeong Cheon
Looking for students in:
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); focus on developing tangible interactive systems
Research through Design (RtD); practice-based design research
Science and Technology Studies (STS); focus on the future of work with robots and AI
Rachel Ivy Clarke
Looking for students in:
Critical approaches to libraries and librarianship (#critlib)
Design thinking, methods, and theories
Knowledge organization and classification
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
LaVerne Gray
Looking for students in:
LIS Social Justice
Black Feminist Information Inquiry
African-American Memory Work
Community Engagement
Josh Introne
Looking for students in:
The dynamics of misinformation
Collective intelligence and online knowledge creation
Sociotechnical design for marginalized populations
Md Tariqul Islam ‘Pavel’
Looking for students in:
Security and privacy in Cloud/Edge computing
Blockchain-based distributed systems security
Security, privacy, and trust in Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs)
Fault-tolerance in large scale distributed systems
Yiqi Li
Looking for students in:
Social Networks
Online Communities
Misinformation
Organizational Communication
Sebastian Modrow
Looking for students in:
Special Collections and Archives
History of Libraries and Archives
History of the Book
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
Joon S. Park
Looking for students in:
Cybersecurity
Information Security/Privacy
Current Security Issues
Beth Patin
Looking for students in:
Information equity
Cultural competence
Community resilience
Libraries and disaster management
Jian Qin
Looking for students in:
Metadata and linked data
Knowledge representation and organization
Research data management
Digital scholarship
Scientific collaboration networks
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
Jasmina Tacheva
Looking for students in:
Critical data studies
Data justice
Humanistic perspectives on computing
Lu Xiao
Looking for students in:
Computational social science
Reasoning/persuasion in social media
Digital humanities
Community-based informal learning
Bei Yu
Looking for students in:
Natural Language Processing
Information Quality
Health and Science Communication
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
