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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: AI Ethics, Bias, and Fairness, Societal Impact of AI, Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Multimodality

Marika Cifor, Associate 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

Amy J. Ko, Professor, Associate Dean for Academics. Specializations: Critical Computing, Design Education, Social, Ethical, and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

Ben Lee, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Computing Cultural Heritage, Collections as Data, Digital Humanities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Professor, Associate Dean for Research. Specializations: Misinformation, Science of Science, Data Science

Jason Young, Director of TASCHA, Principal Research Scientist, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Affiliate Assistant Professor. Specializations: Critical Technology Studies, Digital Knowledge Politics, Community-Based Research

Other Faculty Who Can Chair Committees

Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Associate 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

Megan Finn, Affiliate 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 Emeritus. 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

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

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

Sandy Littletree, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge, Information Services, Native North American Indigenous Librarianship

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. Specializations: Data Curation, Digital Research Collections, Scientific and Scholarly Information Work

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

Wanda Pratt, Professor. Specializations: Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction

Hans Jochen Scholl, Professor. Specializations: Electronic Government, Disaster Information Management, Distributed Ledger Technologies

Meena Selvakumar, Associate Teaching Professor. Specializations: Informal Science Education, Museums and Community Engagement

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

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

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Students (from left) Harman Zhang, Sara Duan, Justin Dong, Noa Avitan and David Pham

Informatics team helps music streamer earn money for artists

Thursday, May 22, 2025
For a music creator, getting paid by listeners around the world should be as simple as a fan clicking “subscribe.” But for many artists in less developed countries, existing streaming platforms make that difficult or out of reach.An...
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Alex Heller, Alina Weseloh and Ilias Bowen-Sicalides

MLIS team preserves a piece of radio history

Friday, May 16, 2025
From 1973 to 2011, the Evergreen Radio Reading Service served blind and print-disabled listeners across the state of Washington. Now, with its recordings stored in a fragile audio archive and at risk of permanent loss, a team of MLIS...
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MLIS Law Librarianship Information Session

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iSchool Library Leadership Spotlight Series: Melody Sky Weaver

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11:30-1:15PM

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MSIM Mid-Career Last Chance Q&A

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