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Faculty Who Can Chair Committees

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.

Hala Annabi, Associate Professor. Specializations: Inclusive Learning Organizations, Women in the Technology Industry, Individuals with Autism in the Workplace

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

Aylin Caliskan, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision, Computational Social Science

Marika Cifor, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Archives and Record Management, Digital Studies, Gender and Technology

Katie Davis, Associate Professor. Specializations: Child-Computer Interaction, Learning Sciences, Digital Youth

Anind K. Dey, Dean and Professor. Specializations: Human-computer interaction, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Ubiquitous and mobile computing

Megan Finn, Associate Professor. Specializations: History of Information and Computing, Science and Technology Studies, Crisis Informatics

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, Associate Professor. Specializations: Information Technology in Developing Countries, Qualitative Methods, Technology and Social Change

David G. Hendry, Associate Professor. 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

Bill Howe, Associate Professor. Specializations: Data Management, Data Science for Social Good, Scientific Databases and Visualization

Joseph Janes, Associate Professor. Specializations: Cultural Impact of Documents and Documentation, Future of Libraries, Information Science

W.E. King, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Gender and Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Religion, Digital Media and Society

Amy J. Ko, Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Computing Education, Software Engineering

Lindah Kotut, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Human Computer Interaction, Privacy and Security, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

Jin Ha Lee, Professor. 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

Sandy Littletree, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge, Information and Society, Information Services

Jessica Luke, Teaching Professor, Director, Museology Graduate Program. Specializations: Learning in Museums: critical thinking, play, and social emotional learning, Family Involvement in Learning

Michelle H. Martin, Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services, MLIS Program Chair. Specializations: Children's Literature, Young Adult Literature, Youth Services

Sean McGann, Teaching Professor. Specializations: Business Intelligence and Analytics, Information Systems Analysis and Design, Management and Strategic Leadership

Tanu Mitra, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Social Computing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Online Misinformation

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, Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). Specializations: Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction

Andrew Reifers, Associate Teaching Professor, MSIM Program Chair. Specializations: Cybersecurity

Joel Ross, Associate Teaching Professor, Informatics Program Chair. Specializations: Games and Gamification, Pervasive Systems, Computer Science Education

Matthew Saxton, Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Dean for Academics. Specializations: Information Literacy, Quantitative Methods, User Services & Intermediation

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

Chirag Shah, Professor. Specializations: Information Retrieval/Seeking, Data Science, Personalization and Recommendation

Jaime Snyder, Associate Professor. Specializations: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Computer Interaction, Visualization Studies

Emma Spiro, Associate Professor. Specializations: Social Networks, Crisis Informatics and Misinformation, Computational Social Science

Joseph T. Tennis, Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Executive Director of Administrative Services. Specializations: Classification Theory, Information Provenance and Versioning, Comparative Metadata Analysis

Mike Teodorescu, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Sociotechnical Information Systems, Economics of Innovation, Entrepreneurship

Ott Toomet, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Econometrics, Labor Economics, Socialization, Interethnic Contacts

Carla Wale, Associate Teaching Professor, Director, MLIS Law Librarianship Specialization. Specializations: Democratization of Legal Information, Technology and Information Policy, Organizational Change and Leadership

Melanie Walsh, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Digital Humanities, Cultural Analytics, Literature

Lucy Lu Wang, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Natural Language Processing, Health Informatics, Machine Learning for Health

Nicholas Weber, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Data and Software Curation, Civic Technology, Science and Technology Studies

Jevin West, Associate Professor. Specializations: Data Science, Network Science, Scholarly Communication

Jacob O. Wobbrock, Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction, Accessible Computing, Mobile Computing

Jason C. Yip, Associate Professor. Specializations: Child-Computer Interaction, Learning Sciences, Families and Technologies

Jason Young, Senior Research Scientist, Affiliate Assistant Professor. Specializations: Misinformation & Digital Literacy, Digital Knowledge Politics, ICT & Development

Jeremy Zaretzky, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Design Thinking, Information Architecture, Front-End Development

Faculty/Research Scientists Who Can Serve on Committees

Below is a list of iSchool teaching faculty members and affiliate faculty research scientists who can serve on doctoral committees but who cannot advise doctoral students (i.e. they cannot serve as Chair of a doctoral committee).

Chris Coward, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Affiliate Associate Professor. Specializations: ICT and development, Public libraries, Civic engagement

Julia Deeb-Swihart, Assistant Teaching Professor. Specializations: Data Science, Information and Society, Human-Computer Interaction

Maria Garrido, Principal Research Scientist, Affiliate Assistant Professor.

Trent Hill, Associate Teaching Professor. Specializations: Cataloging and Classification, Human Information Behavior

Martin Saveski, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Social Networks, Causal Inference, Computational Computer Science

Heather Whiteman, Assistant Teaching Professor, MSIM Deputy Program Chair. Specializations: Future of Work, People Analytics, Data Science & Society

Helene Williams, Teaching Professor. Specializations: Collection Development, Academic Librarianship, Digital Humanities

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News

Illustration of a light shining on documents shaped in the form of city buildings

Researchers shed light on city governments' data

Wednesday, January 18, 2023
The idea grew out of a disagreement. Eva Maxfield Brown was an undergraduate student six years ago at the Information School. She was paying close attention to a controversial issue before the Seattle City Council to allow a new NBA arena...
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Julius Cecilia

Informatics student inspired to improve health care

Monday, January 9, 2023
Julius Cecilia has found it hard to watch his sister, who has life-threatening food allergies, end up in the hospital repeatedly. He wanted to find a way to make life easier for her and for other people who suffer from similar...
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