Faculty Currently Seeking Ph.D. Students

Katie Davis, Professor, Interim Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs. Specializations: AI & Education, Teens & Social Media, Teens' Emotional Interactions with AI Chatbots

Alexis Hiniker, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program Chair. Specializations: Child and Teen Wellbeing, Human-AI Interaction, Social Media Use

Amy J. Ko, Professor, Associate Dean for Academics. Specializations: Critical & Liberatory Computing Education: New Pedagogies, Paradigms, and Programmable Media, Critical Information Studies: Society, Culture and Technology, Design: Values, Methods and Theory

Lindah Kotut, Assistant Professor. Specializations: AI / Tech Policy

Ben Lee, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Artificial Intelligence

Jin Ha Lee, Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Executive Director of Administrative Services. Specializations: Information Literacy, Game-Based Learning, Libraries & Museums

Michelle H. Martin, Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services. Specializations: Youth Services, Children and Young Adult Literature, Community Engagement & Outreach

Tanu Mitra, Associate Professor. Specializations: Responsible AI Topics: Value Alignment, Epistemic Alignment, Safety in AI, AI Evaluations, AI & Health

Wanda Pratt, Professor, Interim Ph.D. Chair. Specializations: Personal Health Informatics, Mental Health Informatics, AI & Health Management

Martin Saveski, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Social Algorithms, Causal Inference & Experimental Design, Social Networks

Chirag Shah, Professor. Specializations: AI

Pelle G. Tracey, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Housing, Precarity, & Technology, Recordkeeping in Practice, Ethnography of Infrastructure

Lucy Lu Wang, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Natural Language Processing, AI Reliability, Agentic AI

Nicholas Weber, Associate Professor. Specializations: Public Policy, Science of Science, Computational Social Science

Jevin West, Professor, Associate Dean for Research. Specializations: Computational Social Science, Misinformation, AI Mediated Science

Jason C. Yip, Associate Professor. Specializations: Co-Design with Children, Families and Technologies

Jason Young, Assistant Professor, Director of TASCHA . Specializations: Digital Knowledge Politics, Community-Based Research, Arctic Studies

Other Faculty Who Can Chair Committees

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

Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Associate Professor. Specializations: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge, Native American Art and Artifacts, Tribal Museums and Indigenous Curation

Aylin Caliskan, Associate Professor. Specializations: Artificial Intelligence, Societal Impacts of AI and Ethics, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

Marika Cifor, Associate Professor. Specializations: Archival Studies, Digital Studies, Critical & Feminist Theory & Methodologies

Anind K. Dey, Dean and Professor. Specializations: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

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

Karen E. Fisher, Professor, MLIS Program Chair. 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 Emeritus. 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

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

Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Associate Professor. Specializations: Community-Engaged Research & Indigenous Research Methodologies, Indigenous Data Governance, Environmental Science & Health

Sandy Littletree, Assistant Professor, Joe and Jill McKinstry Endowed Faculty Fellow in Native North American Indigenous Knowledge. Specializations: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge, Information Services, Native North American Indigenous Librarianship

Jessica Luke, Teaching Professor, Director, Museology Graduate Program. Specializations: Museums, Learning, & Psychological Wellbeing, Learning in Museums: Critical Thinking, Play, and Social-Emotional Learning, Family Involvement in Learning

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 & Media Studies, Digitization & The Cultural Commons, Artistic Research (creative practices as/in/with technology)

Carole Palmer, Professor. Specializations: Interdisciplinary Information Practices, Research Data Services, Digital Research Collections

Nassim Parvin, Professor, Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). Specializations: Feminist Science & Technology Studies (Feminist STS), Speculative & Critical Design, Design & Epistemic Justice

Meena Selvakumar, Associate Teaching Professor. Specializations: Visitor Engagement in Informat Settings, Public Engagement with Science, Museum Administration

Jaime Snyder, Associate Professor. Specializations: Visualization Studies and Critical Visual Design Research, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Computer Interaction

Emma Spiro, Associate Professor. Specializations: Social Networks, Social Media, Rumors & Misinformation

Joseph T. Tennis, Professor. Specializations: Classification Theory, Information Provenance and Versioning, Comparative Metadata Analysis

Mike Teodorescu, Assistant Professor. Specializations: Entrepreneurship, Technology Management, Intellectual Property

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

Jacob O. Wobbrock, Professor. Specializations: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI)