Welcome!
I am an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences (the iSchool) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I got my PhD from Carnegie Mellon, School of Computer Science, in "Computation, Organizations and Society" (now Societal Computing).
In my lab, we focus on Human-Centered Data Science, Social Computing and Computational Social Science, and Responsible Computing. To do that, we integrate and advance methods from network science, natural language processing and machine learning with theories from the social sciences and humanities to study interaction-based and information-based systems. Currently, we are working on projects related to 1) studying consequences of biases in data, technology and human decision making, 2) validating social network theories in contemporary settings, 3) impact assessment, 4) socio-semantic networks, 4) crisis informatics, and 5) data governance.
News from our lab
- Dec 7: Jana presents Biases in Bibliometric Network Data and the Measurement of Triadic Closure at the EuroCSS 2018 Symposium
- Dec 5: Jana chairs the Workshop on Biases in Social Computing Data and Technology, co-located with the EuroCSS 2018 Symposium
- Dec 5: Jana gives a keynote talk at the 1st Workshop on Reframing Research, co-located with the EuroCSS 2018 Symposium
- Dec 3: Jana gives a keynote talk Responsible Social Computing at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Network Research (DGNet)
- Nov 13: Ly won the ASIS&T 2018 Student Design Competition
- Nov 12: Ly presented Middle of the (by)line: Examining hyperauthorship networks in the Human Genome Project at the ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada
- Nov 10: Shub's paper, Expertise as an aspect of author contributions, won the Best Student Paper Award at the Workshop on Informetric and Scientometrics Research (Metrics 2018), ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting, Vancouver Canada