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
Jinmo Kim
PhD student, iSchool
Gibong Hong
PhD student, iSchool
Jerome You
PhD student, iSchool
Research Staff
Chieh-Li "Julian" Chin
Research Program Manager, iSchool
MS CS, UIUC (2013)
MS LIS, UIUC (2012)
Alumni
PhD Students
- Jenna Kim, PhD in Information Sciences, UIUC (2024)
- Dissertation: Pre-trained language modeling approaches for author name disambiguation
- Next employment: Assistant Professor, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama
- Received Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Ly Dinh, PhD in Information Sciences, UIUC (2022)
- Dissertation: Advances to network analysis theories and methods for the understanding of formal and emergent structures in interpersonal, corporate/organizational, and hazards response setting
- Next employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track), School of Information, University of South Florida
- Received Berner-Nash Thesis Award
- 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
- Received Berner-Nash Thesis Award
- 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
