Faculty
Jana Diesner
Associate Professor, iSchool
Current Students
PhD Students
Rezvaneh "Shadi" Rezapour
PhD student, iSchool
Craig Evans
PhD student, Informatics
Ly Dinh
PhD student, iSchool
Janina Sarol
PhD student, Informatics
Nikolaus Parulian
PhD student, iSchool
Kanyao Han
PhD student, iSchool
Apratim Mishra
PhD student, iSchool
Jaihyun Park
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
Angela Rhodes
PhD student, Informatics
Master Students and Undergraduate Students
- Ko-Mei "Melody" Lin, MS in Information Management
- Kevin Redline, MS in Library and Information Science
- Junjie "Nick" Yue, MS in Information Management
- Rowan Ewangan, BS in Political Science
- Li Ju, BS in Econometrics and Statistics
- Farras Rivai, BS in Information Science
- Namrata Vajrala, BS in Computer Science
Research Staff
Chieh-Li "Julian" Chin
Research Manager, iSchool
MS CS, UIUC (2013)
MS LIS, UIUC (2012)
Alumni
PhD Students
- Garrick Sherman, PhD LIS, iSchool (2019)
- Dissertation: Document expansion and language model re-estimation for information retrieval
- First employment: PostDoc, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Shubhanshu Mishra, PhD LIS, iSchool (2019)
- Dissertation: Information Extraction from Digital Social Trace Data with Applications to Social Media and Scholarly Communication Data
- First employment: Machine Learning Researcher, Twitter
- Jinseok Kim, PhD LIS, iSchool (2017)
- Dissertation: The Impact of Author Name Disambiguation on Knowledge Discovery from LargeScale Scholarly Data
- First employment: Research Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Nicolas LaLone (08/2018- 07/2019)
Next employment: Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Master Students
- Tiffany Lu, Master of Science in Information Management, UIUC (2020)
- Ke-Rou Wang, Master of Science in Information Management, UIUC (2020); PhD student, Informatics
- Arnav Ohri, MSIM student, iSchool
- Harshitha Ravindra, MSIM student, iSchool
- Ye Feng, MSLIS student, iSchool
- Xiujia Yang, Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering, UIUC (2019)
- Jenna Jordan, MSLIS student, iSchool
- Saumil Shah, Master of Science in Information Management, UIUC (2019)
First employment: Data Scientist, Walmart - Harathi Korrapati, Master of Science in Bioinformatics, UIUC (2016)
First employment: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - Liang Tao, Master of Science in Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UIUC (2015)
First employment: Bloomberg L.P. - Amirhossein Aleyasin, Master of Science in Computer Science, UIUC (2016); PhD student, Computer Science
Master Thesis Title: Entity recognition for multi-modal socio-technical systems
Undergraduate Researchers
- Haejin Lee, Mathematics and Statistics
- Ikenna Akuba, Econometrics
- Angitha Bright, Political Science
- Wanxing Dai, Statistics
- Erin Dowdy, Computer Science
- Minseok Jung, Philosophy
- Vaishnavi Myadam, Statistics & Computer Science
- Kehan "Patrick" Li, Statistics & Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (2020)
- Rachel Kim, Linguistics and Informatics
- Fiza Goyal, Computer Science
- Dorothy Zhang, Accountancy (major) and Informatics (minor)
- Jessica Schmiederer, Actuarial Science and Economics
- Sandra Franco, BS Linguistics (2016)
