Ph.D. Faculty Advisors
Below is a list of iSchool faculty members who are eligible to advise doctoral students. Many of them may be looking to take on new students for the upcoming school year. Please note, identifying a faculty member who is working in a similar area to your interests and can advise you through the program is a key part of being admitted. Therefore, prospective students are strongly encouraged to contact faculty directly and utilize their directory listing to learn more about their research and recent publications. Another helpful resource is the Research Areas section of the website, which groups faculty by the type of work they are doing.
Faculty Currently Seeking Ph.D. Students
Hala Annabi, Associate Professor. Specializations: Inclusive Learning Organizations, Women in the Technology Industry, Individuals with Autism in the Workplace
Aylin Caliskan, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision, Computational Social Science
Katie Davis, Associate Professor. Specializations: Child-Computer Interaction, Learning Sciences, Digital Youth
Bill Howe, Associate Professor. Specializations: Data Management, Data Science for Social Good, Scientific Databases and Visualization
Amy J. Ko, Professor. Specializations: Critical Computing, Design Education, Social, Ethical, and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Sandy Littletree, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge, Information Services, Native North American Indigenous Librarianship
Tanu Mitra, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Social Computing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Online Misinformation
Nassim Parvin, Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). Specializations: Design Ethics and Politics, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Design Justice
Martin Saveski, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Social Networks, Causal Inference, Computational Computer Science
Chirag Shah, Professor. Specializations: AI, Search and Recommender Systems, Machine Learning
Jaime Snyder, Associate Professor. Specializations: Visualization Studies and Critical Visual Design Research, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Computer Interaction
Mike Teodorescu, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Sociotechnical Information Systems, Economics of Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Lucy Lu Wang, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Natural Language Processing, Health Informatics, Machine Learning for Health
Nicholas Weber, Associate Professor. Specializations: Public Policy, Science of Science, Computational Social Science
Jevin West, Associate Professor. Specializations: Misinformation, Science of Science, Data Science
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Accessible Computing, Mobile Computing
Jason C. Yip, Associate Professor. Specializations: Child-Computer Interaction, Participatory Design, Families and Technologies
Other Faculty Who Can Chair Committees
Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Assistant Professor, Joe and Jill McKinstry Endowed Faculty Fellow in Native North American Indigenous Knowledge. Specializations: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge, Native American Art and Artifacts, Tribal Museums and Indigenous Curation
Marika Cifor, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Archives and Record Management, Digital Studies, Gender and Technology
Anind K. Dey, Dean and Professor. Specializations: Human-computer interaction, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Ubiquitous and mobile computing
Karen E. Fisher, Professor. Specializations: Forced Migration, Information in Everyday Life, Digital Youth
Batya Friedman, Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Multi-lifespan Design, Value Sensitive Design
Ricardo Gomez, Professor. Specializations: Information Technology in Developing Countries, Qualitative Methods, Technology and Social Change
David G. Hendry, Associate Professor, MSIM Program Chair. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Value Sensitive Design
Alexis Hiniker, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program Chair. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, User-Centered Design
Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Associate Professor. Specializations: Critical Data Studies, Technology, Norms, & Human Values, Discourse Analysis
Joseph Janes, Associate Professor. Specializations: Cultural Impact of Documents and Documentation, Future of Libraries, Information Science
Lindah Kotut, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Human Computer Interaction, Privacy and Security, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Jin Ha Lee, Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Executive Director of Administrative Services. Specializations: Music, Multimedia, and Interactive Media Information Retrieval, Organization and Preservation of Popular Cultural Objects, User Behavior Related to Popular Cultural Media
Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Water Security Research, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Governments, and Communities, Climate, Native Health and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
David Levy, Professor. Specializations: Contemplative Practices, Ethics of Information and Technology, Information and the Quality of Life
Michelle H. Martin, Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services. Specializations: Children's Literature, Young Adult Literature, Youth Services
Afra Mashhadi, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Specializations: Computational Behavioral Modeling, Machine Learning
Adam Daniel Moore, Professor. Specializations: Ethics of Information and Technology, Applied Ethics, Normative Ethical Theory, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Freedom of Speech, Ethics of Hacking, Data Ethics
Temi Odumosu, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Visual culture and media studies, Digitization and the cultural commons, Artistic research (creative practices as/in/with technology)
Carole Palmer, Professor, Associate Dean for Research. Specializations: Data Curation, Digital Research Collections, Scientific and Scholarly Information Work
Wanda Pratt, Professor. Specializations: Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction
Hans Jochen Scholl, Professor. Specializations: Electronic Government, Disaster Information Management, Distributed Ledger Technologies
Meena Selvakumar, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Informal Science Education, Museums and Community Engagement
Emma Spiro, Associate Professor. Specializations: Social Networks, Crisis Informatics and Misinformation, Computational Social Science
Joseph T. Tennis, Professor. Specializations: Classification Theory, Information Provenance and Versioning, Comparative Metadata Analysis
Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Digital Humanities, Cultural Analytics, Literature
Jason Young, Senior Research Scientist, Affiliate Assistant Professor. Specializations: Misinformation & Digital Literacy, Digital Knowledge Politics, ICT & Development