Director
PhD Students

Jana Diesner
Associate Professor, iSchool

Kanyao Han
PhD student, iSchool

Apratim Mishra
PhD student, iSchool

Pingjing Yang
PhD student, Informatics

Yubin Ge
PhD student, Computer Science

Lan Jiang
PhD student, iSchool

Sul lam Jeoung
PhD student, iSchool

Clara Belitz
PhD student, iSchool

Haejin Lee
PhD student, iSchool

Chieh-Li "Julian" Chin
PhD student, Informatics

Jenna Kim
PhD student, iSchool

Jinmo Kim
PhD student, iSchool

Gibong Hong
PhD student, iSchool
Master Students and Undergraduate Students
- Anisha Jauhari, UIUC, MS in Information Management
- Brad King, UIUC, MS in Library and Information Sciences
- Yunhao Mei, UIUC, MS in Information Management
- Debdeep Mohanty, UIUC, MS in Information Management
- Yanvi Soni, UIUC, MS in Information Management
- Sumeet Kulkarni, UIUC, MS in Information Management
- Hamiz Anjum, UIUC, BS in Mathematics
- Arpandeep Khatua, UIUC, BS in Computer Engineering
- Adrian Russo, UIUC, Mathematics and Computer Science
- Alex Stratton, UIUC, BS in Economics
- Zijun Yu, UIUC, BS in Statistics
- Zihan Zhou, UIUC, BS in Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Sharanya Bhardwaj, UIUC, BS in Information Sciences
- Siddarth Aananth, UIUC, BS in Information Sciences Data Science
- Samridhi Verma, UIUC, BS in Information Sciences
Research Staff

Chieh-Li "Julian" Chin
Research Program Manager, iSchool
MS CS, UIUC (2013)
MS LIS, UIUC (2012)
Alumni
PhD Students
- Ly Dinh, PhD in Information Sciences, UIUC (2022)
- Dissertation: Advances to network analysis theories and methods with applications in social, organizational, and crisis settings
- Next employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track), School of Information, University of South Florida
- Rezvaneh "Shadi" Rezapour, PhD in Information Sciences, UIUC (2021)
- Dissertation: From User-generated Text to Insight: Contextaware Measurement of Social Impacts and Interactions Using Natural Language Processing
- Next employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track), College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
- Garrick Sherman, PhD in LIS, UIUC (2019)
- Dissertation: Document expansion and language model re-estimation for information retrieval
- Next employment: PostDoc, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Shubhanshu Mishra, PhD in LIS, UIUC (2019)
- Dissertation: Information Extraction from Digital Social Trace Data with Applications to Social Media and Scholarly Communication Data
- Next employment: Machine Learning Researcher, Twitter
- Jinseok Kim, PhD in LIS, UIUC (2017)
- Dissertation: The Impact of Author Name Disambiguation on Knowledge Discovery from LargeScale Scholarly Data
- Next employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Nicolas LaLone (08/2018- 07/2019)
Next employment: Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha


